“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable we had to add whisky. By diligent effort I learnt to like it.” Winston Churchill.

The Whisky Lounge is a place to escape the hustle and bustle of London and enjoy a wee dram.

The Whisky Lounge is here to help you indulge in your pleasure of whisky. We have over 70 different whiskies, of which most are displayed around you in the cabinets.

On the Whisky list there is a brief tasting note for each whisky so you can consider what you are looking for, if not ask one of the team who will be happy to help.

If you are not a connoisseur then take a “Whisky Flight” where you can taste the best of Scotland, America or Whisky from England and Wales too.

George Bernard Shaw the playwright said “Whisky is liquid sunshine” and here you can enjoy the warmth of whisky, with or without mixing it.

All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml. charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml.

SCOTCH WHISKY LITE BITES

SPEYSIDE Home Specialty Roasted Nuts Smoked almonds with black pepper Glenfiddich 12yo Or Well-balanced flavour of rich fruit, subtle pine Salt and sugar roasted hazelnuts and a hint of peatiness. Or £6.50 Spiced roasted pecans £2.00 Singleton of Dufftown 12yo Sweetness and crunchy nuts, then smooth fruity richness. Home Smoked Scottish Salmon Firm, with a balancing sweetness; hints of blackcurrant, Served on specialty home baked bread. brown sugar and espresso coffee. £7.50 £7.00

Welsh Rarebit on Farmhouse Bread Balvenie Doublewood 12yo Savoury toasted cheese over grilled bread. Gentle spice with a little vanilla, a balancing peat lurking quietly. £5.50 £7.50

Three Savoury Macaroons Macallan Gold Black olive tapenade, smoked salmon and liver paté. Spices, vanilla, walnut and rich malt. A good dollop of fermented honey. £5.00 £8.00 Three Orange Macaroons Cardhu 12yo Bitter chocolate ganache with and orange pate de fruit centre. Smooth, rounded, gentle sweetness, soft peat. £5.00 £8.00 Morello Cherry Chocolate Cup Cragganmore Distiller Edition 1996 Morello cherry compote, dark ganache, milk chocolate lid. Finished in a port wine cask this expression has a flowery, £5.00 heather, honey taste with hints of oranges & port. £11.00 Cinnamon Tea Truffle Camomile tea & cinnamon infused ganache in a Macallan 25yo dark chocolate shell. Dried apricots, prunes and figs. Hints of nutmeg and cinnamon £5.00 weave in and out. £15.00 Bitter Chocolate & Orange Tart Chocolate pastry shell. Orange marmalade, bitter chocolate Strathisla 1964 ganache, orange syrup and candied orange zest. Notes of marmalade and sherried fruits, a hint of creosote hangs £5.00 pleasantly in the mix with a good level of sweetness and whirling smoke. Chocolate Delight £50.00 Ghana 85% dark chocolate. A perfect combination, which will enhance the flavour of whisky in your palate. Glenfiddich 30yo £3.00 Very rich with a mix of dates, peels and nuts from the sherry barrel, and then a surge of vanilla sweetness and oak. Hints of blossom, mixed fruits. £55.00

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WHISKY FLIGHTS SCOTCH WHISKY

All consisting of 3 different whiskies 15ml CAMPBELTOWN AND LOWLANDS Glenkinchie 12yo A TOUR OF SCOTLAND Sweet, soft start becoming flowery. Crisp mid-palate then butter icing, lemon cheesecake and freesias. Highlands - Singleton of Dufftown 12yo £7.50 Speyside - Dalwhinnie 15yo Islands - Talisker 10yo Springbank 12yo £12.00 Very rich taste of oranges, tangerines and clementines as well as a hint of cocoa. £11.00

ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES Rosebank 21yo England - St Georges Chapter 6 Parma violet notes take the fore. There’s some rather pleasing notes of bramble leaves, toffee apple and cranberry, as well as a Ireland - Bushmills little kiwi and pine sap. Wales - Penderyn £40.00 £16.00 HIGHLANDS Glenmorangie 10yo ROUND THE WORLD Cinnamon with some flowery notes, light with a hint of spice and a creamy buttery finish. Japan - Suntory Yamazaki 12yo £6.50 USA- Bulleit Rye, Van Winkle Special Reserve Dalwhinnie 15yo India - Amrut Fusion Aromatic & dry, with aromatic honey, heather notes with a peaty finish. £20.00 £8.00

Glenmorangie 18yo JOHNIE WALKER TOUR A contrast of rich sherry sweetness with a walnut and spicy finish. Johnnie Walker Black £18.50 Johnnie Walker Gold Reserve Johnnie Walker Platinum. Glengoyne 18yo £25.00 Spicy vanilla fruit, ripe apples and a rich, luxurious mouthfeel. £19.00

Glenmorange Signet A contrast of rich sweetness with an explosive crackle of sizzling spices and bitter mocha. £28.00

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SCOTCH WHISKY INTERNATIONAL

ISLAY AMERICA Laphroaig 10yo Jack Daniels The oak is big, and muscles its way into the fore as you hold this Thick, oily, smokey, dense, corn syrupy. whisky over your tongue. An upsurge of spices develop £6.00 cardamom/black pepper/chilli.

£7.50 Woodford Reserve

Strong, powerful vanilla overlays a rich fruit medley, with mint, Ardbeg 10yo sweet cocoa and a dash of black pepper spice of mint, tobacco, Sweet vanilla counterbalanced with lemon and lime followed by leather, and fruit. that surging Ardbeg smoke that we all know and love. £6.50 £8.50 Bullet Rye, Van Winkle Special Reserve Lagavulin 16yo Maple, caramel and tobacco spice. Sweetness of a sherry character. As the particular, salty notes £21.00 emerge in a bear-hug of peat.

£11.00 Sazerac Small Batch Rye 18yo

Plenty of nougat and marzipan, nicely counter-balanced by the Caol Ila Distillers Edition cigar smoke and iodine. Sweetness and maltiness strike first, then are quickly £22.00 overwhelmed by peat smoke and intense, clean, crisp flavours. Caol Ila’s signature smoky bonfires are here, and build to quite a size. Overall, drying, in a beautifully balanced, complex, elegant George T Stagg development, complemented with cinnamon spice. Mint toffees. Dark fudge. Candied prune and some astringency. £12.00 Lots of alcohol. £26.00 Caol Ila 18yo Smooth and mildly sweet start with good acidity and sea salt. JAPAN £18.00 Suntory Yamazaki 12yo Medium-bodied, malty and mildly spiced, with a drying, Lagavulin Distillers Edition increasingly nutty finish. Sweet and luscious; a clear, grassy malt, then the peat attacks, smoke filling the mouth. A very salty tang at one point; the £10.00 middle offers coffee and vanilla with a glimmer of fruit. £20.00 Suntory Hibiki 17yo Full bodied and creamy on the palate, with a beguiling blend of stewed fruits and spices. Long, fruity and spicy in the finish, with Bowmore 25yo pleasing oak notes and a final touch of vanilla. Hint of flowering currant. Nutty. Layers of dry, black treacle, maltiness. Smooth. Polished stone. Hard, salty, liquorice. £16.50 £48.00 Nikka Yoichi 20yo Very rich and spiced with notes of crisp orchard fruits, anise and cream. The finish is long and gentle sherried with a faint herbal note. £45.00

INDIA Amrut Single Malt Barley, honey develops with allspice, apricot and rum. £8.50

Amrut Fusion Oaky, rich, gentle peat, coffee, dark chocolate. Fruity. £11.00

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INTERNATIONAL SCOTCH WHISKY

ENGLAND ISLANDS St George’s chapter 6 Isle of Jura 10yo Quite full-bodied. Tingling and textured on the palate. Fresh Light bodied in the mouth, with malt and drying saltiness. The wood, vanilla, again fruity and nutty, malty, cereal character finish is malty, nutty, with more salt, plus perhaps just a wisp of smoke. comes through. Slightly citrus. Very clean. £7.00 £10.00

Talisker 10yo St George’s Distillery Diamond Jubilee Full bodied with huge plumes of smoke and volcanic, Sour plums, then spicy and malty. Spiced cherries and apples peppery peat. and custard with a finish tending towards bitterness. £8.00 £16.00 Talisker Distillers Edition WALES Sweet, roasty malt with heathery dryness. Sherry notes keep back some pepper. In its place is luscious, slightly oily sweetness Penderyn with juicy fruit and vanilla. Aromas of rich dried fruit with fresh blackberries and £13.00 dark chocolate. £6.50 Highland Park 18yo Honeyed exotic fruits with a little botrytis. The palate is creamy and full with fruit conserves and espresso. A creaminess with IRELAND cinnamon and allspice. Notes of toffee with thick black forest honey with a touch more citrus. Jameson £14.00 The nose is full and floral, Marmalade and fudge, Madeira and a little cut grass note. The palate is thick and of good body with Talisker 25yo notes of orchard fruits. The finish is of medium-length Sweet and meek to start, with some acidity and saltiness. with spice and honey. Extraordinary flavour development. Becomes dry, stony, £5.00 minerally, dusty, toasty. Ground white pepper. Chillies. £40.00

Black Bush Talisker 30yo Fresh oak, softened with sherry. Full of flavours, oaky, fudgy, The smoke is immediate and dry with creamy oak. Almond milk buttery, with rosewater character finish. and light, sweet stone fruits emerge, joined by a trace of salt, as £6.00 with peat moss in the rain or seaweed. £55.00

Bushmills 10yo Almondy. Some soft, perfumy, winey spiciness. Toasted almonds, raisins, slightly burnt toffee. £7.00

CANADA Canadian Club Notes of winter spice and dark sugars, a touch of rum. £5.00

All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml. charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml.

SCOTCH WHISKY JOHNNIE WALKER FAMILY

BLENDS Johnnie Walker Red Notes of malted barley and potpourri, a touch of winter spice Bells 8yo and fruitcake. Malty, a little sweet, shortbread, dry oak. Oily texture. £5.50 £5.00 Johnnie Walker Black J&B Rare Notes of wood smoke and dry spice, hints of barley and cereal There are notes of berry fruits, hints of cut fruit salad and with creamy toffee and a distinct herbal note. caramel. The finish is quite short with a touch of oak and spice. £7.00 £5.50 Johnnie Walker Gold Reserve Chivas Regal 12yo Smooth and succulent with a honeyed sweetness that’s typical Full, rounded, fruity, nutty, vanilla, barley. of Johnnie Walker. There’s more to this though, the floral elements are quite prominent and there’s a £6.00 spiced sweet vanilla note too. £16.00 Monkey Shoulder Malt Banana, penny sweets hint of custard powder. Johnnie Walker Platinum Vanilla, generic fruit. Sweet and warming, with creamy malt, oats and cereal. £6.00 A spicy vanilla cinnamon dusting too with the gentle smoke again developing. £18.00

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Good toffee and hints of very wistful smoke. Chocolate, hints of grass and a good hit of malt. Floral, oaky, good length, urged on by a plume of very well-kept, highland style smoke. Dried fruit, spice, honey. £40.00

King George V Soft, buttery toffee and general fruitiness. Medium bodied, but very malty and well-constructed blend. Golden syrup, creamy spices and malt on the finish. £65.00

Johnnie Walker Odyssey Triple Malt This blend of just three malts has been married in European oak casks, then housed in a rotating crystal-grade glass decanter. It takes its inspiration from the original notes of Sir Alexander Walker; the blend is housed in a swinging decanter to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Sir Alexander’s creation of a whisky vessel capable of staying upright at sea. £110.oo

All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service All prices are inclusive of VAT. A 10% discretionary service charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml. charge will be added to your bill. All whiskies served in 35 ml.