After restoring the Lars Homestead in Tunisia (which was not just
Mark & Manny, but also included Terry Cooper, Mark Cox, Robert
Cunningham,
Michel
Verpoorten and - to some extent - Colin Kenworthy), we were invited
to present a panel at the Star Wars Celebration Europe in Essen (Germany)
on the 25th July 2013.
Being whisky aficionados for so long, Mark & Manny felt it would be
a great idea to present the rest of the crew with a special
surprise. This, of course, became the bespoke bottling of the
Save
Lars Whisky Saviours Edition, a Bruichladdich 20 Year Old.
Only 6 bottles, one for each of the Saviours, was released.
Due to popular
demand, Mark & Manny soon decided to buy the rest of the cask from
A.D. Rattray, independent whisky
bottler from Glasgow.
Iain Croucher,
their sales &
business development manager
featured below,
is something of a
Star Wars fan himself. He was honoured to bottle the remaining 100
bottles of the cask under the Save Lars label. The first Fan Edition,
seen on the right,
sold out in less than a week!
Mark & Manny
set out to find another great single cask, albeit completely
different from the first (which was a smoky
Islay whisky) and found a wonderfully
delicate single malt from the
Auchentoshan
distillery,
worthy of being
bottled as the
Save Lars Whisky Second Fan
Edition.
Seeing that Auchentoshan is Mark's favourite distillery (check out
his
Toshan Man Collection), it was only natural that we would bottle
this Lowlander eventually. We got very lucky that this cask was
available to us!
For their final bottling they wanted something exceptional and found
it in a sherry cask matured Speyside single malt. Exceptional for
several reasons: it was matured in a sherry cask, it is bottled at
cask strength and it comes from a distillery that does not
officially bottle its single malt as it produces only for the
blending industry. So they felt very lucky to get their hands on
this exclusive cask of Balmenach 14
Year Old 2001.
A worthy conclusion to this
Save Lars Whisky
Trilogy.
Click
here to learn about the
Final
Fan Edition or
here for the tasting notes.
Ready to pre-order? Then go here!
