Crabbie's Yardhead Single Malt Whisky, 70 cl

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The current Crabbie’s range consists of an eight-year-old Highland single malt, a peated 12-year-old Island malt, and 25-, 30- and 40-year-old malts from Speyside.

Brown said: ‘Region isn’t a great descriptor of the whisky, and it’s becoming irrelevant with people like us, being a Lowland distillery but not making Lowland whisky. Region doesn’t mean anything.’ Single malt Scotch whisky still tends to be consumed as a straight drink but it actually mixes really well. To the nose the scent of apples greets you almost immediately. This hit me before I even raised the glass to my nose, and the juicy, fruity aroma is really welcoming. This is followed by the sweetness of lemon sherbet. The sweet sharpness softens to creamy custard tones and finishes with malted wheat. Before you even put this whiskey anywhere near your lips you can’t help but hope for great things. Crabbie’s Yardhead will not state which Scotch whisky region it has been sourced from in a bid to‘drop some of the old fashioned language associated with Scotch’. We already do a range of fantastic sipping age statement whiskies, and now we are trying to do what John Crabbie did by pushing boundaries still further,” said Brown. “We like to think we are a broad church, and are inclusive. I am in the last few years of my career and I want more and more people to drink whisky.

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Crabbie's is a sponsor of both international and grassroots rugby, with sponsorships of Wales & Scotland, and Rugby Union clubs Ospreys, Newport Dragons, Scarlets, Cardiff Blues, Edinburgh Rugby, Glasgow Warriors, Newcastle Falcons, Northampton Saints, Yorkshire Carnegie, Richmond, Esher, Caldy, Southport and Rugby League club St Helens.

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