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Thanks to Ken Chin, again, we have the cover
bottle photo. Source Gin is from the Cadrona
Distillery, which is situated near the entrance to
the Cadrona Ski Field. We have mentioned this
distillery previously and Rosie & I visited it a
couple of years ago. The only thing they had
ready for tasting at that time was Source Gin.
This was because it is set up to be a single malt
distillery and they are not selling any whisky until it has aged for at least 10 years. It’s good,
although that should not be surprising as it is their new single malt spirit that is infused with
botanicals rather than being put in barrels. This is so they have some cashflow whist they
wait for the whisky to mature. The other thing they are doing for cashflow is pre-selling 500 &
200 litre barrels of whisky. But you can’t take delivery of these for at least 10 years!

John Thiesen found this Port Wine 2018 Advent Calendar. Unfortunately it is now too late to
buy it. It features 24 different miniature 5cl glass bottles from 8 different port wine houses -
small as well as large: Borges, Cruz, Dalva, Dow's, Kopke, Martha's, Messiah and Taylor's.
It also features 16 different Port variants: White, Dry White, Lágrima White, White Reserve,
10 Years White, White Colheita, Rosé, Ruby, Ruby Reserve, Late Bottled Vintage, Tawny,
Tawny Reserve, 10 Years Tawny, Tawny Colheita, 20 years Tawny and 30 years Tawny.

There are quite a number of mini bottle Advent Calendars around now, varying greatly in
contents, price and quality.

Member Luis Campos has sent us the photos of two new minis (on next page) that have
been produced in Spain. Both are made by Carmelitanos, a very old distillery built by the
Carmelitanos monks 119 years ago, which is the reason the Gin has this number. Both are
an exact reproduction of the original regular bottle, even down to the screen printed labels.

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