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Douglas Laing & Co’s Mid-Autumn Special Limited Editions 🌕🐇
Celebrate the mid-autumn festival by relishing New Ubin Seafood’s phenomenal flavours of our very own culinary artisans' artistic craft coupled with the exceptional characters of whisky eccentricity.
Presenting an indulgent array of Douglas Laing & Co’s Limited Editions including the Big Peat Whisky with bottle artwork featuring mid-autumn festival. A delicious epicurean experience and a splendid celebration of festivities as we pay homage to the auspicious Harvest moon.
Let us take this time to experience the best of life as we enjoy sipping the limited edition Cask Strength whiskies of Douglas Laing & Co’s and savour the exceptional #trulySingaporean dishes that this season has to offer.
Book now and taste luxury in your mouth!
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A Passion for Whisky
Douglas Laing & Co is a family-owned, Glasgow-based independent bottler. Established in 1948, Douglas Laing & Co is proudly a Scotch Whisky business in its third generation. Over 70 years of heritage have helped them to refine their processes, and deliver Whisky that is consistently exceptional in its offering. Since founding in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing, the company has upheld its tradition and is currently being headed by the third generation of the Douglas Laing family.
Abiding to the philosophy of presenting Whisky as the Distiller intended, they add nothing and take nothing away from the spirit, enabling Whisky lovers around the world to come as close as they possibly can to sampling a dram straight from the Cask.
Independent Bottler
An independent bottler is company that does not necessarily produce their own whisky, but purchase individual barrels from other distilleries, which they later bottle under their own branded label. In most cases, where teaspooning does not prevent this, the name of the original distillery may also be mentioned on the label of these bottlings. The majority of independently bottled whiskies are single cask bottlings, bottled without spirit caramel colouring and chill filtration. Being single cask these are generally not diluted to 40% ABV but rather sold at cask strength.
Douglas Laing & Co have traditionally been bottling whiskies and spirits from all over Scotland. They
have lots of successful brands such as Old Particular, Big Peat, Scallywag and Xtra Old Particular (Single Cask whiskies).
The rise of core ranges
It probably goes without saying that most distilleries have launched their own in-house bottling on the market today. The so called “core range” of bottlings that are regularly available from many of Scotland’s distilleries, usually released in ages 10-12, 15, 21-25 and so on. These are often augmented with limited run special edition finishes and more recently no age statement NAS whiskies.
At first glance this may have seemed like a death blow to the independent bottlers like Douglas Laing & Co, depriving most of their entire reason to exist. If anything this trend has fuelled a more radical development of the single malt range. Seeking to distinguish themselves from the supermarket facing core ranges independent bottlers generally specialise in single casks, unique cask finishes, and unadulterated whiskies. It is above all the diversity resulting from independent bottling that makes single malt whisky so interesting for connoisseurs. Not every distillery offers single cask whisky, or small batch bottlings. Some don’t even release their own bottling lines. Even those with comprehensive ranges can’t compete for the range of niche ages and finishes offered by the independents. In this way, independent bottlers contribute to the diversity in the whisky landscape.
Benefits of independent bottlers
There are a large number of selling points to independently bottled whiskies, as compared to the official bottlings released as part of a distilleries core range. Including:
The chance to explore non-vatted whiskies (so the special character of individual barrels is not lost)
A wide range of cask strengths and age statements
A range of unusual finishes and full cask maturations
Independent bottlers often feature unusual whiskies from distilleries without an official bottling series
The chance to buy rare whiskies and limited editions from long lost distilleries
Beyond these points, it is the sheer range of bottlings offered by the independents that make this category interesting for the whisky connoisseurs, and the much dreaded collector. Especially as it is possible to acquire extremely rare bottlings which have been allowed to mature far beyond the normal age offered by distilleries.
A new modern distillery on the rise
Douglas Laing & Co produces and supplies Scotch whisky with a focus on artisan, small batch and single-cask bottlings. It currently has businesses across the US, China, Germany, France, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK.
Douglas Laing already owns one distillery – Strathearn in Perthshire, acquired in 2019 – and will soon operate another, a new-build £10.7m plant in Glasgow.
The new project’s aim is to house its Headquarter distillery & bottling facility in Glasgow, where they can start to produce their own spirits. The new distillery Complex is being built on the waterfront prime space of Pacific Quay river bank of the Clyde River and has been named Clutha Distillery. Clutha is Scots Gaelic for Clyde, the river on which the distillery will draw its water. They since started production in 2019 and will see its 1st batch of whiskies aged to perfection in at least a decade’s time.
The Clutha distillery will enable Douglas Laing to focus on improving its global export trade. It will also help in growing the company’s business in the existing markets of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, China, and the domestic UK market.
Old Particular Glengoyne 12 Years
Highland Single Malt
ABV: 48.4%, 500ml
From the great Glengoyne Distillery comes a single cask 12 year old single malt, independently bottled by Douglas Laing. This one was aged in a refill butt cask from May 2007 to March 2020, when it was bottled up with an outturn of only 531 bottles worldwide for the Old Particular range.
Nose: Pancakes with butter and maple syrup, freshly sliced oranges and apples, a hint of pencil shavings.
Palate: Waves of vanilla cream and runny caramel. Oaky cinnamon and nutmeg follow it up.
Finish: Porridge with blueberries topped with brown sugar, plus some ginger spiciness.
Single Minded Secret Speyside 15 Years
Speyside Single Malt
ABV: 46%, 700ml
From Douglas Laing & Co's Single Minded selection comes a 15 year old single malt Scotch whisky from a secret (though particularly well-known & famous) distillery in the Speyside region(We called the distillery the Secret M. But due to rights, we can’t reveal it here). The original distillery sold all batches of this experimental cask liquid to Douglas Laing & Co as the original distrillery does not want to deviate from their usual profile characteristic to their brand. This doesn’t mean this 15 year old is a reject from The Secret M distillery. The experiment was a success and this all round well balance liquid doesn’t come under the “Secret M” brand due to impasse from their strict Brand marketing. There’s a hint of peat in this which is why the reason Secret M cannot market it under their Brand as M traditionally don’t do peated whiskies. This is a sweet, malty single malt, rich in brown sugar, sweet spices and a touch of citrus peel along the way. This limited cask edition can sometimes go well over the thousands per bottle on the open market if you are well versed with “M”’s limited editions. So come savour and collect it at New Ubin Seafood before it is gone.
Nose: Cinnamon rolls, sultanas drenched in spiced rum, a touch of Madeira cake.
Palate: Barley sugar sweets and more cake-y vanilla, backed up by dried fruit and ginger.
Finish: Biscuit-y malt with layers of strawberry jam and marzipan.
Old Particular Invergordon 21 Years
Highland Single Grain
ABV: 50.7%, 700ml
Another Old Particular whisky from Invergordon Distillery but it is a single grain & single cask whisky - We can’t tell you how much we love this! Rare & expensive as it is for Single Grains(Think the Japanese Grain Whiskies), they are extremely delicious and worth every drop. Distilled October 1994 and bottled November 2015, one of just 206 bottles in the world.
Palate: Classic fudge on the palate alongside some supporting wood spices.
Finish: More vanilla.
Overall: A little one dimensional perhaps, even for a grain, but it's a superb tasty classic dimension!
Scallywag "The Chocolate' Limited Edition
Speyside Blended Malts
ABV: 48%, 700ml
This limited edition joins Douglas Laing's Scallywag range, The Chocolate Edition 2022 is comprised entirely of sherry cask-matured Speyside single malts, drawn from single casks. Each cask was selected especially for its chocolate-rich profile, ensuring huge helpings of cacao depth and dark, sweet spice. Definitely one to enjoy with a nice chunk of dark chocolate!
Nose: Definitely chocolatey with wafts of chocolate milk, and bittersweet cacao followed by nutty caramel and candied biscuits.
Palate: Silky layers of sherried fruits, cakey spice, and huge malted chocolate character with burnt toffee and dark chocolate Brazil nuts.
Finish: Lingering notes of indulgent fondant, still nutty, with praline and fruitcake lasting.
Big Peat "The Mid-Autumn Festival' Collectors Edition
Islay Single Malt
ABV: 48%, 700ml
The Big Peat series carry a selection of the finest malts distilled on Scotland's windswept maritime Island of Islay, famous for their peaty, smoky character, offering notes of ash, beach bonfires, coal dust and tar, encapsulating the fiesty spirit of Islay in a bottle. In true Douglas Laing and traditional style, this is distilled at high strength and proudly offered without chill-filtration, allowing the natural character of the big peated spirit to rein supreme. Peat whisky lovers watch out for this as this is only specially produced for the Mid Autumn festival and when the Moon wanes so does this! Collect this lovely 44ppm Peaty monster while it last!
Nose: Distinct peat smoke with notes of chewed leather, ash, coal dust and a hint of sweetness
Palate: Notes of sweet toasted marshmallows, peat smoke, honey and charred oak
Finish: Vanilla sweetness, lingering light smokiness, hint of bitter brine
Douglas Laing & Co's Pairing Menu
Bottle Deals
Join us for the Douglas Laing & Co’s Limited Editions pairing lunch and get access to special exclusive prices available only on the Event Day:
Old Particular Glengoyne 12 Years Single Cask, Single Malt(500ml): $ 128.00 (U.P: $168.00++)
Single Minded Secret Speyside 15 Years Single Malt: $ 198.00 (U.P: $288.00++)
Old Particular Invergordon 21 Years Single Cask, Single Grain: $ 288.00 (U.P: $388.00++)
Scallywag 'The Chocolate' Limited Edition: $ 148.00 (U.P: $188.00++)
Big Peat 'The Mid-Autumn Festival' Edition: $ 138.00 (U.P: $178.00++)
*Special Event Prices quoted are per bottle of 700ml (unless otherwise stated) and are NETT including GST.
Douglas Laing & Co's Full Moon Pairing Event
📅 SATURDAY, 10th of September 2022 12:00pm
📍 New Ubin Seafood CHIJMES
💵 Early bird price (till 4th Sept 2022 ): $85++ pp (UP:$95++ per pax)
Additional 10% off the published seat price if you are a member of Frenz of Ubin Seafood or the Singapore Press Club!
Seats are limited, so reserve yours today!
Min 2 pax to book. Please indicate seating preference as food may be communally shared in a table of up to 10pax.
*Please note dine-in is only allowed for fully vaccinated individuals.
RSVP at makan@newubinseafood.com or call/whatsapp +65 9740 6870