{"title":"Single Malts","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"south-island-single-malt-25-yo","title":"South Island Single Malt 25 Year Old 350ml","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eDistilled at the Willowbank distillery in Dunedin from 100% malted New Zealand barley, then left to rest for twenty-five years in American oak ex-bourbon casks. A quarter-century in wood is a rare luxury for any whisky, and rarer still for one made this far south.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis is peat at its most disarming. Where heavily smoked malts announce themselves, this one only whispers — a fine grassy smoke woven through fresh golden fruit, orchard apple, and a clean lift of sea-salt spray. Balanced, unhurried and quietly complex, it's the bottle to pour for anyone curious about peat but wary of the bonfire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe Willowbank reserve is finite, and this expression is all but spent: fewer than thirty bottles remain. Twenty-five years isn't something you can simply set aside and make again — when these are gone, they're gone for good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Zealand Whisky Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31692216172676,"sku":"SISM25YO350","price":449.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0308\/1227\/4820\/products\/133.jpg?v=1578637135"},{"product_id":"the-otago-30-year-old-commemorative-casks-350ml","title":"The Otago 30 Year Old 350ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eScotland, Ireland, and Japan have matured single malt to 30 years and beyond in recent years. New Zealand is only the 4th nation to release a Single Malt Whisky with the benefit of three decades in American Oak.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr class=\"kix-line-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis precious liquid began in the rich soils and barley fields of North Otago. After massaging at the hands of proud Maltexo maltsters, Dunedin’s distilling team married the snowmelt waters into the ‘uisga beatha’ (Water of Life). They let their copper stills work magic on the vapours, before laying down the recaptured liquids, to rest and quietly mature in American Oak barrels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr class=\"kix-line-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr class=\"kix-line-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 1987 until 2017 The Otago was softly sweetening into the syrupy and silky flavours of rich malt, divine fruit and a buttery mouth-feel that leaves lasting flavours of the South Island. In their 30 years, these barrels took a journey from Willowbank in North Dunedin, to further maturation in the Taieri Valley, before an enlightened relocation to enjoy the seaside influence of Oamaru’s crashing coastline.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003eExperience this for yourself and see how thirty long years of careful maturation are reflected in this beautifully delicate New Zealand Whisky.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The New Zealand Whisky Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31692216402052,"sku":"OTAGO.30.350","price":599.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0308\/1227\/4820\/products\/Otago30350mlwithbox_2.jpg?v=1681780382"}],"url":"https:\/\/checkout.thenzwhisky.com\/collections\/single-malts.oembed","provider":"The New Zealand Whisky Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}