Scotch Malt Whisky Society 39.151
$209.99
A BLUE LADY AND A SERAPH'S SMILE
This 19 year old Speysider was finished in a 1st fill Pedro Ximenez butt after previously maturing in an ex-Oloroso butt and is 58.4%
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits
Outturn: 592 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The nose is smooth and indulgent – like being served Blue Lady tea* and After Eight mints on a polished mansion house table. With time fruits open up – tangerine, kumquat, peach schnapps, prunes and figs. The palate is mouth-filling, velvety, smile-inducing and sweet as a Seraph’s smile – maple syrup, moist brown sugar and rum and raisin fudge; then come hints of ginger, nutmeg and oak and some green apple and sherbet. The reduced nose offers cinnamon swirls, marshmallows, sun-ripened sultanas and toffee pennies. The palate combines thick honey and fudge sweetness with melon, mango and sherbet dip-dabs; cinnamon and leather to finish. (* black tea flavoured with citrus and exotic flowers). Previously matured in an ex-Oloroso butt."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 35.185
$224.99
FRIGHTFULLY DELIGHTFUL
This 22 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill toasted oak hogshead and comes in at 57.5%
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits
Outturn: 242 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The frightfully delightful nose suggested polished wood, spun sugar, caramelized fruits, coffee with Danish pastries and cedar shelves in a candy shop groaning under floral confectionery. The palate had great textures and a warm, flavoursome glow, expanding in the mouth like a giant’s accordion – maple syrup on French toast, fruit bars, toffee, dark sugar, cinnamon, cherry and chocolate mints. The reduced nose found honey, rosewater, hazelnut, caramel, orange peel, raisins and dates, plus an unaccountable curiosity of dusty smoke, ash, tobacco and creosoted wood. The palate was marvellously mellifluous – dried fruits, crème brûlée, amazin’ rum and raisin and sinful cinnamon sweetness."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 66.100
$147.99
RELAX IN A RECLINER
From the Eastern Highlands, this 12 year old comes in at 55.5% after maturing in a refill barrel
Flavour profile: Lightly peated
Outturn: 173 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The sweet smoky scent of a Thai starter platter made us all feel very hungry. We could choose from prawn toast, spring rolls, curry parcels, spicy dumplings, crispy seaweed and smoky spicy prawn crackers with a sweet chili dip. The taste neat felt like relaxing in a recliner chair or a warming massage with menthol and lavender oil. Water added a Smoky Grove cocktail using peaty whisky, vermouth, bitters and the twist of a flamed orange peel. On the palate now loose ginger tea with a hint of lemongrass and liquorice with a well-balanced sweet and smoky seemingly never-ending finish."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 73.87
$113.99
DARE YOU ENTER?
This 14 year old Speysider, at 59.5%, spent 13 years in an ex-Oloroso sherry butt before being transferred to a 1st fill Spanish oak Pedro Ximenez butt for the remainder of its maturation.
Flavour profile: Sweet & spicy.
Outturn: 558 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "Initially the nose encapsulated the fragrant whiff of a scented garden, rich in orchids, jasmine and hibiscus flowers. An orange sponge cake had been baked for this occasion, dusted with icing sugar and accompanied by an apricot flan. The introduction of water uncovered an altogether denser disposition as sticky dessert wine, toffee apples and figs in syrup entered the game. Then came the first nuances of spice with hot cross buns, cinnamon, ginger and orange chutney. The palate unashamedly delved deeper into darker dimensions as we encountered rich fruitcake, juicy malt loaf and black cherry jam. The texture became thick, syrupy and intense like mulled wine combining honey, cherry brandy and Oloroso sherry. After 13 years in an ex-Oloroso sherry butt it was transferred to a 1st fill Spanish oak Pedro Ximenez butt for the remainder of its maturation."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 39.146
$113.99
SANGRIA IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO
This 8 year old Speysider comes in at 61.8% and was matured in a refill barrel
Flavour profile: Spicy & sweet
Panel's tasting note: "Our noses found lots of herbal aromatics (liquorice, tarragon, cypress, snuff, rosemary and thyme) – we also got thick-set honey, scented leather and an artist’s studio (oil paints, canvas, turps). The palate gave us perfumed sweetness, intense acidic fruits (chutney, Sangria, balsamic strawberries) and considerable wood-spice heat. Water brought more complexity to the nose – melon, mango and mimosa; coconut, marshmallow and sage, with hints of Chinese sweet and sour spare ribs. The palate was now succulent and sweet, with juicy pear, wine gums, syrupy fruity flapjack bars and chocolate ice-cream wafers. One of those drams that truly comes alive with water."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 41.99
$93.74
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
This 10 year old Speysider comes in at 58.1% after maturing in a refill barrel.
Flavour profile: Light & delicate.
Outturn: 199 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "We walked through a well-tended apple orchard on newly mown grass with cracked golden peanut brittle and multi-coloured candy floss in our hands. On the palate like sliced freshly baked sesame, sunflower & poppy seed bread, spread with a delicious, slightly spicy Bourbon vanilla peach jam. Water released the freshness of a cool mountain spring flowing over mossy rocks and iced mocha with whipped topping and chocolate drizzle and the taste was like a breath of fresh air, a summer fruit salad soaking in the juices with a large dollop of mango and peppermint ice cream."
Old Pulteney 1983
$899.99
This new vintage release is approximately 33 years old, making it one of the oldest Old Pulteney releases. Bottled at 46% after maturing in Ex-Bourbon and finishing in Ex-Oloroso Sherry.
Bruichladdich Octomore 8.3
$159.99
Limit 1 per customer!
We have acquired a final few bottles of this very limited whisky. It is Distilled in 2011 from Islay barley peated to 309.1ppm and filled into a mix of ex-Bourbon and French Wine casks. It was bottled after 5 years at 61.2%. Limit 1 per customer!
Distiller's Tasting Note
Character: This is the ultimate Islay Octomore. A thunderstorm of a dram. Close your eyes as you take the first sip and allow your senses to shut down as you focus on processing this fascinating dram.
Aroma: Toasted oak and muddy/peaty smoke, bandages. Maple syrup, fresh linen, sea shells. Evokes a memory of lying in the heather on the peat moss, the warm sun coaxing the scent from the wild flowers. The fruit is cherry, peach and mango, with creme brulee and toffee from the oak and barley.
Taste: Initially a surprise as the stellar level of peat is bitter and over-whelming. Another sip opens with up with cherry and peach and toasted sweet oak, dark chocolate, boot polish and seaweed. At this level the peat is like a thundercloud, darkening the atmosphere. You can feel it in your bones.
Finish: Complex, cre?me brulee with caramelised brown sugar slightly overdone. Dark plum, orange and kiwi sit well with the malted barley sweetness. The peat smoke is a tremendous presence offering roasted coffee, burnt heather and a place in your memory forever.
Bruichladdich Octomore 8.4
$149.99