Scotch Malt Whisky Society G3.2

$184.49

WALNUT SPELT BREAD WITH SUNFLOWER SEEDS: 34 year old single grain Scotch whisky at 58.3% after maturing in a Refill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead. "The taste neat is quite hot and fizzy with sweet caramel and a spicy green woody note."

Panel's Tasting Note: "The initial nose is quite closed and only with time dried fruits like pear, papaya, mango and banana as well as walnut spelt bread with sunflower and sesame seeds appear. The taste neat is quite hot and fizzy with sweet caramel and a spicy green woody note. Water releases perfumed aromas as well as sweet ones; such as iced buns with a strawberry jam filling and a chocolate hazelnut spread. To taste, quite sweet; vanilla,milk chocolate, golden corn syrup, lychees as well as a fruity taste of unripe apricots with a slightly bitter finish. This make comes from a distillery, closed in 1988, which once was famed for having Europe’s biggest patent still."

Drinking Tip: "Whilst baking or with chocolate."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 73.51

$163.79

MEAD, SHERRY & BUTTERSCOTCH: A powerful Speysider 57.9% after 23 years in a Refill Sherry Butt. "Honey, mead, raisins, figs, sherry, butterscotch and brown sugar on the nose – so much improved."

Panel's Tasting Note: "Burnt raisins, wet leaves, damp forest floor, welly boots, dark marmalade on burnt toast, cocoa, hazelnuts and pancakes & maple syrup - pleasant for some, not for others. Hot, bitter, tannic with burnt orange and toast crusts all with a slight rubbery aftertaste it was crying out for water. Diluted we now got honey, mead, raisins, figs, sherry, butterscotch and brown sugar on the nose so much improved. To taste it was still rubbery but much more elegant with apricot jam, barley sugar and butterscotch with a wonderful sweet aftertaste. This distillery gets its water from the Auchinderran burn."

Drinking Tip: "Needs water."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 66.36

$98.99

MILANO SALAMI AND A TROPICAL FRUIT KEBAB: Panel's Tasting Note: "The first nose tells us this is a big, massive dram, like stepping into a room were traditional Italian spicy cured salami hangs to be matured. We also got BBQ chicken and spare ribs with a sweet syrupy, wood chip smoky marinated hickory sauce. There are also earthy notes like being in a garden shop, potting earth, fresh compost and plant feed. It does not disappoint on the palate, hot, spicy, smoky, heavily char grilled slightly burned sausages but also sweet tobacco notes. With water tarry notes, steamy tarmac being laid on a hot day, creosote soap, tropical fruit kebab and Spotted Dick, a rum and raisin steamed pudding. The taste is that of charred smoke, ashy, scorched heather and a lavender note to finish." Drinking TIp: "Before, during and after a barbecue."

Wilson & Morgan Glenturret 35 Year

$274.49

We only received 6 bottles of this seldom seen single malt from the distillery that provides the backbone of the Famous Grouse blend. 253 bottles were produced from a single presumably Ex-Bourbon Hogshead at 48.5%.

Duncan Taylor Aultmore 1997

$85.49

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 3.198

$118.79

SMOKER'S TOOTH POWDER & DENTIST'S CHAIRS: A 14 year old Ileach one of a series of Refill Sherry matured casks from this distillery all filled on the same day, 57%. "Honeyed chicken wings, big toffee, decent smoke, coal, ash and wood but now minty notes also appeared (mint toffee, mint tea, toothpaste)."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 73.52

$163.79

SPEAKEASY PERKINESS: Matured 23 years in a Refill Sherry Butt, this Speysider is still 57.5%. "The palate delivered a surge of sweetness and a spreading glow of warmth marmalade, aniseed, apple pie, black coffee and traces of smoke. "

Panel's Tasting Note: "The nose hinted at uniforms and boots in a wooden chest, musky perfume in a leather handbag, calvados, sherry-soaked fruit cake,molasses, syrup, crême brûlée and a distant bonfire. With water it remained fascinating and perky – perhaps fruitier (apple, pear,peach, orange) but with some bitterness, burnt notes, wood and hessian. The palate delivered a surge of sweetness and a spreading glow of warmth – marmalade, aniseed, apple pie, black coffee and traces of smoke. The reduced flavours suggested humbugs and a gangster’s moll sipping espresso in a 1920’s speakeasy. The distillery contributes to Dewar’s and sits between Keith and Buckie."

Drinking Tip: "While watching favourite gangster movies." 

Edradour SFTC Sherry Finish

$83.24

Big Peat Santa 2012 Edition

$87.99

A special Christmas edition of the Big Peat Islay Blended Malt.