{"id":33595,"date":"2018-06-20T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=33595"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:29:34","slug":"spirit-open-loch-lomond-unveils-three-limited-edition-single-malts-created-golfing-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/spirit-open-loch-lomond-unveils-three-limited-edition-single-malts-created-golfing-greats\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of The Open: Loch Lomond unveils three limited edition single malts created with golfing greats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loch Lomond has released three new single malts in association with golfers Colin Montgomerie and Paul Lawrie, to celebrate a new five-year partnership with The Open Championship golf tournament.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The three limited edition whiskies include two 1999 vintages, bottled to honour Lawrie\u2019s Open victory that same year, as well as a no-age-statement expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 1999 Vintage Autograph Edition<\/strong> has been created by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scotchwhisky.com\/whiskypedia\/2591\/loch-lomond-distillers\/#\/\">Loch Lomond<\/a>\u00a0master blender Michael Henry in collaboration with Lawrie, with both bottle and outer packaging featuring the golfer\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<p>The expression has been matured in refill American oak hogsheads and ex-Bourbon barrels, and bottled at a cask strength of 50.8% abv.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 1999 Open Course Collection Carnoustie<\/strong> is a limited edition single malt honouring the Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, the site of Lawrie\u2019s historic win.<\/p>\n<p>For the second expression, Henry worked alongside Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie to select refill American oak casks from 1999, bottling the whisky at 47.2% abv.<\/p>\n<p>Both whiskies are said to have \u2018aromas of honey, tropical fruits and hints of maple syrup\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Open Special Edition<\/strong> meanwhile is a no-age-statement single malt bottled at 46% abv, which has been created from spirit distilled from wine yeast fermentations that\u2019s been matured in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels and recharred American oak hogsheads.<\/p>\n<p>The whisky is described as having \u2018vibrant, fruity notes of peach and pear\u2019 along with \u2018a gentle hint of peat and smoke\u2019 on the palate.<\/p>\n<p>All three whiskies will be available globally from June with the Carnoustie and Autograph editions priced at \u00a3150, and the Open Special Edition at \u00a336.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loch Lomond has released three new single malts in association with golfers Colin Montgomerie and Paul Lawrie, to celebrate a new five-year partnership with The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,1,7099,7097],"tags":[6333,4216,6331,612,6332],"class_list":["post-33595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-latest-news","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-carnoustie","tag-golf","tag-lochlomond","tag-single-malt","tag-the-open"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}