Castle Venlaw Malt Whiskies

Malt Whiskies & Cocktails

Welcome to the Castle Venlaw Hotel malt whisky and cocktail list. The full list can be downloaded from our downloads page or if you prefer, viewed below.

Malt Whiskies

Auchen Castle Whiskies

Auchen Castle 8 Year Old ~ £5.50
An 8 year old pure malt whisky, a blend of a number of single malts from the Islay region. It is the very ideal of an Islay Malt: elegant, with a telltale velvet smokiness and long finish.

Auchen Castle 10 Year Old ~ £6.50
This 10 year old single malt whisky from Speyside is well rounded with an excellent depth of flavour.

Auchen Castle 14 Year Old “Ancestral” ~ £7.50
A single malt whisky distilled in Speyside and aged for fourteen years in selected sherry casks. This incomparable Malt has a rich velvet texture, and a long finish of great depth and complexity.

Speyside

The Balvenie 10 Year Old “Founders Reserve” ~ £5.50
Founder's Reserve 10 year old is a single malt from the Speyside region that has a rich colour, bouquet and flavour with a smooth, clean, dry finish.

The Macallan 10 Year Old ~ £5.50
Matured exclusively in oak sherry casks from Spain to deliver a deep, rich, deliciously smooth and well-rounded flavour with a slight sweetness and touch of sherry and wood. Its deep colour is achieved wholly naturally without the addition of any colouring.

Tamdhu ~ £5.50
A good, light-to-medium Speyside malt, which is slightly peaty but with a delicate sweetness and a logn, subtle finish.

Glenfiddich 12 Year Old ~ £5.50
One of the world's best-selling malts, the famous triangular bottle is a fixture in practically every bar on the globe. Light and easy-drinking stuff loved by millions.

The Islands

Isle of Skye 8 Year Old ~ £3.50
An 8 year old blended malt. Honey and vanilla, sweet Speyside flavours, are allied with smoky and peaty Island influences to give a well balanced distinctive blend

Isle of Jura 10 Year Old ~ £6.50
A very accessible, easy-drinking malt. Medium-bodied with a delicate sweet palate, with a hint of brine developing on the finish. A great introductory malt.

Talisker 10 Year Old ~ £5.50
A massive success as the island representative in Diageo's 'Classic Malts' series, Talisker's profile keeps increasing as more fans discover its intense coastal spicy, peaty character. A truly elemental malt.

Tobermory 10 Year Old ~ £5.50
The unpeated malt from the producers of Ledaig, Tobermory hails from the Isle of Mull and is a more gentle medium-bodied, accessible malt than its peated sister. A good aperitif malt.

Highland Park 12 Year Old "Flat Bottle" ~ £5.50
An old favourite in new packaging. Still as smooth, sweet and smoky as ever. "The greatest all-rounder in the world of malt whisky".

Ledaig 10 Year Old ~ £5.50
Produced at the Tobermory Distillery, the only distillery on the picturesque Hebridean Isle of Mull. Its name comes from the original name for the area, Ledaig (Led-chig), from the Gaelic, meaning ‘safe haven’. Ledaig, unlike Tobermory, is distilled from heavily peated malted barley, leading to a single malt with a highly distinctive peaty, smoky taste. The result is an intricate Island Malt Scotch Whisky.

Islay

Lagavulin 16 Year Old ~ £7.50
Deep, dry and exceptionally peaty. Probably the most pungent of all Islay malts, Lagavulin is not for the faint-hearted but inspires fanatical devotion in its many followers.

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old ~ £6.50
A very lightly-peated malt that serves as perhaps the mildest introduction to the Islay style. Floral and fruity tones dominate with the peat influence in the background.

The Highlands

Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old ~ £5.50
A good introduction to the delights of single malt whisky - elegant, smooth and medium-bodied with a light, fruity palate and a whiff of heather on the finish.

Oban 14 Year Old ~ £7.50
The Western Highland representative in Diageo's 'Classic Malt' series is a superb, full-blooded fruity malt with a whiff of heather and more than a hint of peat.

Glengoyne 10 Year Old ~ £5.50
One of very few Scottish whiskies to be distilled from unpeated malt - the malt is allowed to dry naturally before fermentation and distillation begin, resulting in an elegant, medium-bodied style.

Deanston 12 Year Old ~ £5.50
A relaunch in for Burn Stewart's Deanston single malt. Trivia snitched from the Malt Whisky Yearbook: Deanston is the only distillery in Scotland that is self-sustaining for electricity, being equipped with a dam and a turbine.

Glenmorangie 10 Year Old "The Original" ~ £5.50
A relaunch for the standard Glenmorangie, encompassing a new design, label, bottle and even a new name, 'The Original'. Thankfully, it's still 10 years old and still Glenmorangie, so it'll still be excellent.

The Lowlands

Auchentoshan 12 Year Old ~ £5.50
A deliciously smooth, mellow long-aged Auchentoshan. A sophisticated and well-balanced dram to savour slowly after a good meal.

Glenkinchie 10 Year Old ~ £6.50
Much-loved dry, fruity, vanilla-tinged Lowland expression of the 'Classic Malt' range. One of only a few surviving Lowland distilleries still in production.

Glenkinchie 12 Year Old ~ £6.50
Replacing the 10 year-old as the main expression of the Lowland style in the Classic Malts range, a bit fuller and more complex.

Cocktails

Martini ~ £3.95
The most commonly mixed cocktail in the world, the martini is truly a classic. Traditionally made with Gin and Dry Vermouth there have been many variations on this classic cocktail. We can do you either gin or vodka.

Manhattan ~ £6.50
A popular history says this drink was created by Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill’s mother, for presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden. It has been referred as the drinking man’s cocktail – strong, urbane and simple, as well as the “king of cocktails”. It is mixed from Whisky and Sweet Vermouth.

Cosmopolitan ~ £6.50
Also known as the Cosmo, this drink is made from Vodka, Cointreau and Cranberry Juice with a squeeze of Lime. There are many different stories about where the drink originated but it is considered to have been in the late 80’s. Its popularity took off in the 90’s, some crediting it to the show “Sex & The City”.

Daiquirí ~ £4.50
The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area. The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1905 in a bar named Venus by an American mining engineer called Jennings Cox, and the story persist that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests. We use Bacardi White Rum in ours.

Godfather ~ £5.50
The Godfather is Amaretto and Scotch, on the rocks. One could make the connection between The Godfather movies and this drink which uses the sweet Italian liqueur, amaretto, and the robust, hard flavours of a smooth Scotch.

White Russian ~ £5.50
Also known as the Caucasian, this classic has been around since the Cold War era. The White Russian has been named not because it is a traditional Russian drink but due to the fact that the drink contains vodka. Rather it is a pun on the name of the anti-Bolshevik "White Russians" from the Russian Civil War. Made from Vodka, Coffee Liqueur and milk, this is a great after dinner sipper.