FOOD & DRINK
Kopke 1979 Colheita
It retails for £120
Kopke has a long-established reputation for producing the finest Ports, especially Colheitas, a single
harvest Port that is then aged in oak barrels for as long as necessary.
Unlike other Ports, Colheita Ports are only bottled when an order is placed so many of these Ports spend
years in barrel, giving them beautiful characteristics and a real history.
They also produce very fine tawny ports including a 10, 20 and 30 year old blend. Unusually Kopke also
has white port, an ideal aperitif!
GRAN PATRÓN BURDEOS
£495, The Whisky Exchange
A luxury añejo tequila finished in Bordeaux wine barrels.
This handmade, luxury añejo tequila is crafted from the finest 100 percent Weber Blue Agave
from the Highlands of Jalisco.
It is matured in a variety of barrels to get it’s unique aroma and taste, this includes: 1 year in
used American Bourbon barrels, 10 months in new French Oak barrels and finished for 2 months
in first-growth Bordeaux wine barrels, from the finest French chateaux (“Burdeos” means
Bordeaux in Spanish).
BARREL AGE - Matured in a variety of barrels for 2 years
AROMA - Rich Bordeaux wine to start. A blend of oak wood, very light agave, vanilla and fruit
TASTE - Smooth & sweet with great body. Noticeable oak wood, very light agave, vanilla & raisins
DISTILLATION - Tahona Mill & Roller Mill
The Boss Hog
RRP for the WhistlePig The Spirit of Mauve is £600.
Founded in 2008, WhistlePig is now the most awarded Rye
Whiskey maker in the world. They live by a simple ethos:
protect what makes Rye Whiskey great, toss out the rest,
and then innovate to make it better.
Their remote 500 acre hard-working farm in bucolic
Shoreham, Vermont, is the perfect place to perfect their
experiments with blending and finishing, ultimately
leading to a portfolio of deeply complex Rye Whiskeys.
In 2017 WhistlePig was awarded the the coveted ‘Best In
Show Whiskey’ title from the San Francisco World Spirits
Competition.
The name says it all. This is our biggest, most profound
Whiskey for the Boss Hog in all of us. We commit 5
promises to each edition of The Boss Hog: single barrel,
bottled at barrel proof, powerfully complex, distinctly
unique from anything we have ever done, and stupendous.
The Spirit of Mauve, our Vth edition, is a celebration of
Mauve, one of our founding celebrity pigs. Mauve’s lover,
Mortimer, was tragically killed defending her honor in
2014, and was memorialized in The Boss Hog, IInd Edition,
The Spirit Of Mortimer.
Issue 40 2019
The Art of Luxury
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