Scotch Malt Whisky Society 26.89

$186.29

AN EXOTIC TEA ROOM EXPERIENCE: A 27 year old Refill Sherry Butt Matured Northern Highlander at 56.6%. "This cask comes from the Brora distillery, whose name means 'sloped garden'." A stunning older whisky!

Panel's Tasting Note: "Lemon drizzle cake, dried pineapple cubes and waxiness on the nose give way to fresh ginger, gorse flowers and wood glue. Tasted neat, there was a spicy pepper heat and the waxy notes. The taste also offered peaches, vanilla pods and an apricot cake. Adding water led to notes of vanilla ice cream and toffee sauce, lemon sorbet, spiced apple tea and an indulgent orange spiced soap! The taste was warming and exotic introducing Turkish delight, old fashioned perfume (lavender) and a hint of Moroccan spices. This cask comes from the Brora distillery, whose name means ‘sloped garden’."

Drinking Tip: "A dram for after church high tea." 

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 29.132

$163.79

HOSPITALS AND JAPANESE RESTAURANTS: A 21 year old Ileach matured in a Refill-Sherry Butt and bottled at 56.6%. "The neat palate had dry peat smoke curling round a table bearing clove-studded ham, pickles, relish, fried green tomatoes, roast pars21nip and cooked seaweed." 

Panel's Tasting Note: "The nose gave us myriad impressions – creosoted sheds, leather gardening gloves, hay-bales, tarry driftwood, menthol cigarettes, burnt marshmallows, honey-glazed ham and sea-drowned bonfires – all quite earthy and deep. The neat palate had dry peat smoke curling round a table bearing clove-studded ham, pickles, relish, fried green tomatoes, roast parsnip and cooked seaweed. The reduced nose united hospitals (medicines, bandages) with Japanese restaurants (miso soup, soy sauce mushrooms, teriyaki fish). On the palate, delicious, juicy sweetness now overcame the smoke; clean replaced dirty and the sacred prevailed over the profane – Hallelujah. From the distillery named after the hollow by the broad bay."

Drinking Tip: "With sushi!."

Adelphi Caol Ila 2003

$83.69

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Adelphi Bunnahabhain 1987

$147.59

First Edition Miltonduff 1995

$127.34

Duncan Taylor Big Smoke 46

$51.29

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 85.25

$116.99

ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY STRAWS: Panel's Tasting Note: "First impression the Panel voiced, this is a sniffers dram; glue, solventy and warm paper from a photocopier in use a few decades ago, you know what we mean. With time fruity/earthy notes appear like apple, banana leaf, aloe plant, cactus and mango trees; we have moved into a glass house at the Botanics. The taste is hot, sweet/sour,a creamy horseradish and almost numbing. With water we left the glasshouse and are outside in a tropical garden during a very heavy downpour. It feels hot, wet and damp with floral and fruity aromas all around us. The taste now sweet, like a very ripe orange, creamy like vanilla custard as well as fresh like an apple sorbet. This distillery, starting with Glen, is named after Scotland’s smallest city." Drinking Tip: "When in need of a sugar rush."

Coopers Choice Bunnahabhain 2001

$64.79

Celebration of the Cask Tamnavulin 1968

$557.99