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Hi all, It has been a long time I have many new bottles to upload First will be a Dom Perignon 2002 I just got!

JACK DANIELS - Silver Select

The Silver Select's info is:

Rick No. L-12
Barrel No. 5-2755
Release Date: 8-26-05

Jack Daniel's Silver Select Single Barrel Tennessee Whiskey returns to the simplest days of the distiller's art when whiskey was crafted and sold by the barrel, each with its own individual taste.

Each barrel of this select 100 proof (50% abv) whiskey is aged in a unique location within the warehouse where the whiskey's colour and taste mature in extra measure.
Because Silver Select is a single barrel whiskey, bottles drawn from individual barrels offer subtle differences in nose, colour and taste.

To mark its distinctive character, each bottle is hand-labeled with it's rick and barrel number and it's individual bottling date.

It is a single barrel with a singular taste that could only be crafted by the Jack Daniel Distillery.

MALIBU Lime

Malibu Lime which was only sold in Jamaica and night clubs in France. Despite having some success in Jamaica, it did not take off in France and was discontinued in July 2003.

Isle of Jura 1988 / Delme-Evans Select

Bottled from cask 1796 (re-racked from American oak into a sherry cask) to celebrate William Delme Evans, a former distillery manager who designed the new Isle of Jura distillery in 1958. This is the second edition of this bottling.

My Bottle is No. 386 of 586

Ardbeg 10 Year Old

Ardbeg 10 Year Old

Single Islay Malt Scotch Whisky

For peat-lovers, Ardbeg 10yo is probably the highest-quality 'entry-level' single malt on the market, and the distillery many Islay connoisseurs would choose as their favourite. A whirlwind of peat and complex malty flavours, this is an exuberant, in-your-face whisky to be cherished.

Ardbeg

Ardbeg was officially established by the MacDougall family in 1815, the same year as Laphroaig came into official existence a few miles along the road, although it seems that illicit distilling had already been taking place on the site for over twenty years, with Alexander Stewart having founded a distillery there in 1794. Like its fellow southern Ileachs, Laphroaig and Lagavulin, Ardbeg is heavily peated, with a turfy smoke and seaspray character predominant in most bottlings. The distillery fell foul of the global whisky downturn in the late 1970s, which, coupled with some criminal mismanagement by the then owners Hiram Walker, led to the distillery falling silent in 1981. Production resumed sporadically in 1989, but the distillery fell silent again in 1996. However, all was not lost. In 1997 Ardbeg was taken over by Glenmorangie plc, and the past decade has seen a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for this previously neglected distillery, which now boasts an excellent tour onsite, a cracking restaraunt and a worldwide following eager for all things Ardbeg. An initial release of aged stocks bottled as a 17 year-old in newly-designed packaging proved an instant runaway success, and has been followed by a string of highly successful official bottlings.
The core of the range is now the standard 10 year-old - an exuberant, fruity, peaty dram - but there have been several vintage and single cask bottlings that have been elevated to the status of instant classics by Islay aficionados, and surviving bottles of the earlier releases now command sums far in excess of their initial list price. The success of these new bottlings, coupled with the huge surge of popularity of all things Islay-related in recent years, has also led to a revival of interest in older bottlings of Ardbeg, with the result that independent bottlnigs released while the distillery was silent in the eighties and early nineties have shot up in value. In particular, vintage releases of Ardbeg from the period before 1977 when the distillery's floor maltings were removed (a dreadful error by Hiram Walker) are extremely highly sought-after.