Ordering a "Quartaut" 55 litres cask
1) You define your style of whisky by choosing between the two expressions produced at Glann ar Mor distillery :

• Non peated Single Malt Whisky
• Peated Single Malt Whisky (Distilled from malt peated at about 35/40 PPM of phenols)

2) You return to the distillery the order form together with your payment.

3) We send you the order acknowledgement.

4) Your whisky will be distilled specially for you, then put to ageing in the distillery's bonded warehouse. Once your "Quartaut" will have been filled, we will send you the presentational certificate of ownership detailling the cask number together with a photography. Your "Quartaut" will be made available to you once it will be 4 Years Old.

5) You will be able, if you wish so, to leave your cask for further maturation, and will pay in this case a moderate yearly fee to cover warehousing costs and insurance, according to the relevant offer which will be made when the cask will be made available. You will find all necessary information by checking the main terms as well as the Frequently Asked Question and the Terms of delivery & conditions attached to the Order Form.

Price of casks :
Those prices do not include alcohol duty nor VAT, which will both have to be paid when you will take possession of your whisky (bottled or in cask) and will take it out of the bonded warehouse. Please check the relevant details in the FAQ page (Frequently Asked questions).

• 55 l cask of un-peated spirit : the 55 l cask offer of un-peated spirit is temporarily unavailable. A few more casks will be made available during the first semester 2008.
• 55 l cask of peated spirit : we are sorry that the 55 l cask offer of peated spirit is currently unavailable, this for an undetermined period of time.

To pass an order, download the order form and the delivery terms and conditions by clicking on the link below. This document is a PDF file and you can read it and print it with the free software Adobe Reader (we can send you an order form on request).

Important : we produce only a limited number of "en primeur" casks every year. Before passing an order, please make sure that you contact us to check the status of the yearly allocation.

Download Order Form

If you do not have Adobe Reader, you can download it for free by clicking on this link.

55 litres "Quartauts" from Sauternes origin
Those 55 litres casks are specially made for us by our cooperage, from staves of Sauternes "barriques".

"Quartauts" having just been delivered by the cooperage

The quality of maturation provided by casks from Sauternes origin has been widely demonstrated since several years now. The "Celtique Connexion" (the double maturation whiskies from Celtic Whisky Cie, the company from which Glann ar Mor is the distillery) have received numerous awards, in particular at the "Concours Mondial de Bruxelles" and with the "Supreme Cask Award" (best double maturation whisky of all categories) of the highly contested "Malt Maniac Awards" in 2006.

We are very familiar with the use of casks from Sauternes origin since, with Celtic Whisky Cie, we have pioneered the usage of those casks. This process has now been taken over by several reputed Scottish distilleries.

The limited capacity of the 55 litres "Quartauts" provides a very favourable ratio of wood surface/volume. This ratio, combined with the intrinsic quality of the casks themselves and with the geographical situation of the distillery's bonded warehouse, allows for a high quality of maturation within a relatively limited period of time.

As a matter of fact, Glann ar Mor distillery and its warehouses are just facing the sea and enjoy a mild and maritime oceanic climate, recognized as being the most favourable one for ageing whisky casks.

Once it will have completed its ageing period in the distillery's warehouse, you will be able to kep your "Quartaut" cask in your cellar for exemple, if it enjoys a damp atmosphere (casks don't like a dry atmosphere), and you will be able to draw the whisky directly from your cask at will. It is reminded that the sale of spirits by private persons is forbidden in France, as well as in some other jurisdictions within and outside of the European Union.

Apart from the specificities of the cask and of the climatic environment of the warehouse, the charcater of the whisky is naturally also strongly influenced by the quality of the distillation, which represents the first step of its long making process. To know more about the philosophy and the methods which prevail at Glann ar Mor in this domain, we invite you to browse the page The philosophy.

Main terms and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
In complement to the above information, we suggest that you check in priority the Frequently Asked Questions. If necessary, you can naturally contact us to obtain other details.

Distillation of the whisky and availability
For orders which will have been registered before 31st December 2007 distillation will intervene before 30 June 2008, and for orders which will have been registered before 1st July 2008 distillation will intervene before 31 th December 2008.The cask will be made available within the 6 months following the date at which the whisky will have reached the age of 4 years.

Capacity of casks
The filling of your "Quartaut" cask will be done with approximately 55 litres of malt spirit at 59% abv, which represents about 32,45 litres of Pure Alcohol at the time of filling.

After the filling of the cask, the spirit contained in it is subject to a phenomen of natural evaporation (known as the "Angel Share") to a yearly rate of about 3 to 4% of the volume of Pure Alcool. Through this evaporation, the undesirable components of the whisky are progressively eliminated, this phenomen being precisely one of the reason why for the ageing of spirits.

Visiting your cask
Cask buyers are welcome to visit their cask in the distillery's bounded warehouse, after having arranged an appointment.

Transport
Once the ageing period has been completed, you can either come and collect your whisky in our premises, or commission a transport company who will ship it to your place. In the case in which your whisky would have to be shipped outside from France, it is your responsibility to check with the custom & excise authorities of the destination country the formalities which will have to be satisfied.

Frequently Asked Questions