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Royal Lochnagar 16 Year Diageo Special Release 2021

Review by: The Muskox I’m back from another work shift in the wilderness! Going forward, I should actually be able to bring part of my sample collection with me on the road, so I’ll be able to keep reviewing while working (if I don’t fall asleep right after my commute!). For now, I’ll pick up where I left off with another of last year’s Diageo Special Releases. This one comes from the Royal…

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The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 Port Wood Finish 55.5%

The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 is a third party independent bottling of Highland Single Malt Whisky. A limited edition bottling of 360 bottles, finished in ex Ruby Port wine casks. 

The Cooper’s Choice range of whiskies is bottled by the Vintage Malt Whisky Co. (VMWC) which was founded by Brian Cook in 1992. Brian is a honours graduate in Food Science with twenty year’s experience in the malt whisky industry, latterly as Export Director for one of Scotland’s principal distillers. The aim of the VMWC is to produce a range of malt whiskies from Scotland’s finest distilleries and to make them available to independent wine and spirit importers throughout the world. This single malt whisky is individually bottled and presented under the distinctive Coopers Choice label. Casks of malts at different ages are selected from some of Scotland’s finest, but rarely bottled ,distilleries. They encompass all the varied tastes and flavours to be found from the Eastern coastline, to the Highland Valleys and all the way to the Western Isles.

The Royal Brackla distillery was established in 1812 by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle. In 1833 the Brackla Distillery became the first whisky distillery to be granted a royal warrant by the King William IV. One of only three distilleries to do so, the others being Royal Lochnagar and the now demolished Glenury Royal disitllery. Today the distillery is owned by Bacardi and is used in blended whiskies such as Dewars and Johnnie Walker Gold label.

Only 360 bottles of The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 were bottled in 2022 at over 8 years old. Cask Ref #9599 Bottled at 55.5% ABV.

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Royal Lochnagar

5/5

Beautiful and rich flavour. Truly outstanding spirit.

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Royal Lochnagar 26 Years Old 1994 The Sleeping Beauty

Review: Royal Lochnagar 26 Years Old 1994 The Sleeping Beauty auctioned by @whisky_auction for the @scottishballet Endowment Fund. #singlemalt #scotch #whisky #RoyalLochnagar

Royal Lochnagar 26 Years Old 1994 Casks of Distinction #1289 The Sleeping Beauty What they say ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ cask of Royal Lochnagar whisky is awakened after 26 years A unique cask of Royal Lochnagar whisky, laid down in 1994, has now been bottled as part of Diageo’s prestigious Casks of Distinction range.470 bottles will be sold at an auction hosted by online secondary market…

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Morning in the Highlands - the royal family ascending Lochnagar by Carl Haag

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A Wee Dram: Speyside Whisky Tour

A Wee Dram: Speyside Whisky Tour

I decided to take a whisky distillery tour, not because I’m a whisky drinker—I’m not really—but because I thought I should see how the national drink of Scotland is made.  I’ve spent my entire stay living next to the Holyrood gin distillery—somedays, you could really smell the mash—but I wasn’t that interested in visiting.  But whisky intrigued me, so I signed up for Rabbie’s three-day tour of…

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GSN Spirited News: October 6th 2021 Edition

GSN Spirited News: October 6th 2021 Edition

Wild Turkey has announced Master’s Keep One, the sixth release in the distillery’s limited edition Master’s Keep series. The latest release blends whiskies aged between eight and 10 years with an older, 14-year-old Bourbon, in a collaboration that blends the preferences of master distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell. Jimmy favors 8-10-year-old Bourbon, while Eddie prefers slightly older whiskies.…

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It was thirty years ago today…

With pipers playing a traditional Scottish air, the wedding party emerges from Crathie Kirk, near Balmoral Castle. From the left: the bridegrooms mother, Mrs Barbara Laurence, Commander Tim Laurence, the Princess Royal, the Queen and the brides daughter, Zara Phillips.

The wedding of The Princess Royal and Commander Tim Laurence

HELLO! Number 233 | Published: December 19th 1992 | Article 1/2

Princess Anne's short and simple wedding ceremony turned into a traditional Highland celebration when she and her husband drove through the gates of Balmoral Castle. Estate workers had prepared an open carriage drawn by fell ponies to take the laughing newlyweds up the hill to their reception in the Queen's Scottish home. It was a romantic ending to an intimate country wedding on Royal Deeside.

Just as the bride had wished, it was a quiet, unpretentious affair with only immediate family plus a few close friends and estate workers present. In stark contrast to the grand state occasion of her first marriage at Westminster Abbey 19 years ago, last week's ceremony was consecrated in a tiny granite kirk on a bleak hill in the remote and beautiful landscape beneath Lochnagar.

Outside Crathie Church, a small crowd had gathered by mid-morning in freezing temperatures, five hours before the bride arrived. The groom, smiling nervously, was the first of the bridal party to arrive with his brother Jonathan and best man Charles Barker-Wyatt. Tim Laurence, 37, wearing the uniform of a Royal Navy commander, looked at the sky and told his friend: "The weather is not too bad."

At 2.50pm the Queen, the Queen Mother and Prince Charles arrived in a Land Rover driven by the Duke of York. He gallantly leaped out to help his 92-year-old grandmother when she said: "I can't get down. Can you help me?" He brought a footstool from the back of the car and placed it by her door so that she could step down without difficulty. Next to arrive was Princess Margaret with Anne's son Peter in another Land Rover driven by Prince Edward.

When the bride finally swept into view down the road from the castle the frozen crowd gave her a warm welcome. As her car, driven by her father, the Duke of Edinburgh, slowly crept past, it was possible to see that Anne, 42, was wearing an ivory woollen suit. Her hair, for the first time in years, flowed down her back beneath a small brown hat decorated with freesias, and she carried a small posy of white Highland heather. In the back seat was her only attendant, her 11-year-old daughter Zara Phillips, in a warm red hooded coat.

The princess removed a brown checked shawl she had worn around her shoulders on the half-mile trip from the castle as the car pulled up outside Crathie Kirk. Then, her happiness clear for all to see, she paused at the church door and checked that Zara was right behind her. When the organ music began she turned to her father, took his arm, grinned and said: "Come on."

The ecumenical Church of Scotland service was conducted by the Minister at Crathie, the Reverend Keith Angus, a member of the Queen's Chapel Royal in Scotland.

The bride did not promise to obey. Instead, according to the ritual of the unrevised Church of Scotland Marriage Service, the couple simply pledged to be "faithful and dutiful" to one another. With Zara Phillips standing beside her mother holding her white heather posy, the Reverend Keith Angus told the couple that "marriage was not to be entered upon lightly or inadvisedly, but thoughtfully."

He reminded them that it was also "ordained for the lifelong companionship, help and comfort, which husband and wife ought to have of each other."

At the end of the solemnisation, the couple knelt together before the lona marble communion table at the front of the wood-panelled church. With the princess kneeling to the left of Commander Laurence, the couple both bowed their heads. The Queen and her family, in their own separate annexe, knelt in pine pews at right angles to the main congregation. Friends and estate workers followed suit as the Reverend Keith Angus recited the "favoured" blessing from the Church of Scotland's Book of Common Order.

At the end of the service, the newly married couple walked into the vestry to sign the register privately. And, just 25 minutes after the bride had walked down the aisle, the wedding was over.

Twilight comes early in the Highlands and dusk was creeping through the valleys as the newlyweds emerged from the kirk to the skirl of bagpipes. Two local pipers played a stirring rendition of the old Gaelic tune Mhairi's Wedding.

Two children who live on the estate then came forward to present the bride with bunches of heather before rejoining a dozen other local youngsters given a prime vantage point by the church door.

The beaming bride then beckoned to her daughter to come forward. “Are we all going to come out?" the Queen asked the Duke of Edinburgh, and when he nodded, the whole family joined Mr and Mrs Timothy Laurence outside.

Meanwhile, Princess Anne turned to her new mother-in-law and showed her the flowers and lucky horseshoes presented by the local children. When another guest asked where they came from, Anne indicated the excited crowd of youngsters on her left and said: "Over there."

As the couple received congratulations, the Queen asked: "Where are we going now?" Princess Anne replied: "We will have to wait to have our photographs taken before we go."

Then the bride stepped back into the blue Land Rover Discovery which had brought her to the church and, with Tim Laurence at the wheel, they drove slowly back down the hill and across the River Dee. Back at the church, the Queen walked over to say hello to the children. "Are you still having your Christmas play next week?" she asked. When informed it was still on, she apologised because she would not be able to attend. "I'm so sorry I will be missing it.

Then the whole family climbed back into their cars and followed the bride and groom on the short drive back to the castle. That is when the estate workers welcomed the newlyweds in true Balmoral style.

It has become a royal custom for the residents on the Queen's Scottish estate to mark special events in the family's lives in this way. When Prince Andrew came home a hero from the Falklands War the estate workers also decorated a cart to carry him from the castle gates. And instead of using ponies the locals pulled the open cart themselves. A similar celebration was arranged when Prince Charles and Princess Diana first visited the castle after their marriage.

On the happy day last week, the bride flung a white woollen shawl around her shoulders to keep out the cold on the slow, but fun-filled journey up the private road leading to the castle portico. Inside, the housekeeper was waiting with a real Highland high tea - including the local black bun, a kind of fruit loaf, that all the royals love so much. An hour after the wedding reception began, it was all over, and the guests began heading back along the Deeside Road to Aberdeen airport.

The princess and her husband drove off to spend their brief three-day honeymoon half a mile away at the grey stone Craigowen Lodge beside the Balmoral golf course. There housekeeper, Hazel Essen, had a warm fire waiting in the drawing room grate to welcome them. Then the newlyweds shut out the world to enjoy being man and wife.

It was not the usual kind of royal wedding. But as the bride once said: "I was never the fairytale princess." For the royal family it was a heart-warming occasion, a happy new beginning at the end of a year during which the Queen and her relatives have been beset by troubles.

It was the first time a divorced member of the Queen's immediate family had remarried. And as the Church of England does not sanction the remarriage of divorces, the princess had decided to hold her wedding north of the border where the Church of Scotland does carry out such ceremonies.

The happy result was a gathering of the blood royal members of the Queen's family in their best-loved rural retreat. It was a show of solidarity by the people who love the bride best - her parents, her three brothers and her grandmother.

Far away from the strife that has surrounded them all year, they could have a happy day privately with the spotlight of the media kept at a distance. And the small crowd who had gathered there to wish them well thoroughly approved of the starkly simple ceremony.

Lena Morrison, a nurse from the nearby village of Cairney, summed up the feelings of many when she said: "Now she is getting her second chance at happiness and we are here to show her and her mother - that we love and support them." The loudest cheers of all came when the Queen passed by.

As her annus horribilis drew to an end everyone seemed to be hoping that the New Year would be filled with many more occasions just as happy as her daughter's second wedding.

The newlyweds with the Princess Royal’s two children Zara and Peter (left). Taking their wedding vows the couple pledged to be “faithful and dutiful”. The bride looked radiant in an ivory fitted outfit with her hair worn loose and carefree.

The official wedding portraits. The bride and groom (left). The immediate families (right), back row, left to right: Commander Timothy Laurence, the Princess Royal and the Duke of Edinburgh. Front row, left to right: Peter Phillips, Mrs Barbara Laurence, Zara Phillips and the Queen.

The royal guests arrived in quick succession. Prince Andrew drove the first car with Prince Charles as the front seat passenger, and the Queen and Queen Mother together in the back (left). The bride, with her daughter Zara sitting in the back of the car, was driven to Crathie Kirk by the Duke of Edinburgh (right).

First to arrive was the groom with his best man Charles Barker-Wyatt, a former Navy colleague (left). They waited for a few minutes before going inside the church to wait for the bride who, in keeping with tradition, arrived a few minutes late (right).

The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret with Zara in the background holding lucky horseshoes given to her mother (left). Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (centre). Reverend Keith Angus and Right Reverend Michael Mann chat to Brigadier Charles Ritchie (below right).

A joyful bride wearing something old - her ivory woollen suit - and something new - her gold wedding ring, pauses for a brief moment at the door of Crathie Church (left). Looking on, a happy Queen Mother and Zara Phillips with the grooms mother Mrs Barbara Laurence (right).

Princess Anne and Commander Tim Laurence step out into their new life together, as delighted family, friends and estate workers crowd around the church door to wish them every happiness for the future. Two local pipers in traditional dress played the Gaelic tune ‘Mhairi’s Wedding’ to greet the newlyweds.

Following the ceremony the Duke of Edinburgh drove the Queen Mother, The Queen and Prince Charles back to Balmoral for the reception (left and centre). Prince Andrew drove Princess Margaret and Prince Edward back from Crathie Church to Balmoral (right). It was cold and dark by the time the royal party arrived at the castle but their spirits were high as they celebrated the Princess Royal’s special day.

As the newlyweds set off for the reception at Balmoral Castle, the crowds who had gathered outside the church wished them a long, happy and healthy future together. The brides posy of white heather was propped on the dashboard of the couples blue Discovery for the short journey (above).

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Group picnic at Lochnagar with the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1868. 🍂

Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!     In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me the rocks where the snow-flake reposes,     Though still they are sacred to freedom and love. Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,     Round their white summits though elements war; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains,     I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr. - Lord Byron

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“Morning in the Higlands:  The Royal Family ascending Lochnagar“ (1853)

“Evening at Balmoral Castle” (1854)

These two large watercolours (both over a metre long - the equivalent of many similar oil paintings) were commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from German artist Carl Haag who had stayed with the royal family at Balmoral in 1853. “Morning in the Highlands” was a Christmas gift from Albert to Victoria in 1853, while its companion piece “Evening at Balmoral” was given by Victoria to Albert on his birthday (August 26) in 1854.

 In the “Morning” Prince Albert is depicted leading the royal family on a ride up Lochnagar mountain, while in the “Evening” he presents the stags he had shot that afternoon to the Queen and Prince of Wales. The gillie John Brown stands to the right of the picture, holding a torch.

The two pictures were originally hung together at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

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The royal family shared this photo of the Queen hiking near Balmoral today as a tribute with the words: "May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest. In loving memory of Her Majesty The Queen." (Picture: @RoyalFamily)

The royal family has released a previously unseen photo of the Queen after her private burial took place. The photo of the Queen was taken at Balmoral, which is believed to be one of her favourite places in the UK, in 1971 and shows her hiking in the moorlands surrounding the castle in Scotland.

The quote is from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and was said by King Charles in his first address to the nation on the day after the Queen's death.

In Act 5 Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet’s best friend, Horatio, holds his dying friend in his arms and pays tribute to the Prince of Denmark, saying: “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

Tuesday mark the start of a period of royal mourning, the King Charles III head to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, his mother’s favourite place. King Charles retreats to Scotland to grieve privately after queen's funeral.

The royal family will observe an extra week of mourning by seeking some time away from the spotlight to grieve privately in Birkhall, the king’s Scottish retreat, located on the Balmoral estate. The queen was known to love her home in Scotland where she enjoyed a summer holiday each year. Birkhall was the home of the then Prince of Wales and Duke of Rothesay (The heir apparent is referred to as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland rather than the Prince of Wales) on the Balmoral estate, Aberdeenshire.

The garden of Birkhall, the Scottish home of the King Charles on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire. The sloping lawn is fronted by borders filled with red roses, such as Europeana and Le Mans. Credit: Clive Nichols/Country Life Picture Library

On the death of the Queen Mother in 2002, Birkhall passed to her grandson, Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Rothesay, the garden today bears many of her hallmarks, of the native Scottish spirit.

Birkhall, is a special place, particularly because it was made by his grandmother. It is a childhood garden, with the towering mountain of Lochnagar in the far distance.

The photograph is believed to have been taken by Lord Patrick Lichfield, the late Queen's cousin.

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Royal Lochnagar 2019 Distillery Exclusive (46%, OB, 5004 Bottles, 2019)

Royal Lochnagar 2019 Distillery Exclusive (46%, OB, 5004 Bottles, 2019) #RoyalLochnagar #singlemalt #scotch #whisky #review

Royal Lochnagar 2019 Distillery Exclusive Whisky Review

ABV: 48%

Age: NAS

Bottling: OB, Diageo

Category: Highland single malt scotch whisky

Cost: £85

Origin: Royal Lochnagar distillery

Vintage: Undeclared

What they say

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Royal Lochnagar launches limited edition distillery exclusive bottling for 2019

Official tasting notes:

The nose opens notes of spice, citrus and wood,…

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