November 2009

Dear Customer

We believe we have an interesting new selection for November being eight (8) from the OLD MALT CASK, three (3) bottlings of OLD & RARE plus the last ANNIVERSARY BOTTLING of our six (6) which celebrates our 6 decades. It is a particularly attractive 20 year old Macallan which has been finishing quietly in a Sherry cask for the past 10-11 years.

Appropriate tasting notes follow:

OMC1756 ROYAL LOCHNAGAR 12 YEAR OLD
Nose : Clean, crisp and spicy fresh + citric + barley sugar
Palate : Spicy sweet, warming with loads more barley
Finish : Drier now, with a replication of nose and palate (F)

OMC1776 CAOL ILA 18 YEAR OLD
Nose: Sweet and pheonlic, with salt sea air and damp earth
Palate: Still sweet, running to peatiness, and a gristy quality
Finish: Lightly tarred, with dry ash and an iodine style (F)

OMC1746 ROSEBANK 19 YEAR OLD
Nose: Clean / fresh, fruit salad + eucalyptus + milk chocolate
Palate: Sweet and fruity with lemon zest and delicate smoke
Finish: Long, herbal and velvety with a burnt orange peel tang(J)

OMC1745 GLENLASSAUGH 25 YEAR OLD SHERRY FINISHED
Nose: Feisty, spiced, fruited, buttery and oaked.
Palate: More fruit (now macerated) with a dark sherry/nutty style
Finish: Now drier + a liquorice bite + more spice + late vanilla (F)

OMC1753 GLEN MHOR 27 YEAR OLD
Nose: Clean, dry, spicey and gristy.
Palate: Soft and herbal with a coffee and tobacco style
Finish: Sweet, still barleyed and attractively herbal (F)

OMC1752 GLENLIVET 30 YEAR OLD
Nose: Rich and creamy – heading citric and syrupy.
Palate: Barleyed, very tightly oaked, vanilla’d: still rich
Finish: Gently spiced, now drier: all over “complex” (F)

OMC1769 AUCHROISK 34 YEAR OLD
Nose: Vanilla + rum macerated dried fruit in a hot apple cake!
Palate: Opens fresh, runs to oak and spices balanced with cooked berries
Finish: Long with (specifically) chewy, ripe raspberries and fresh cedar wood (J)

OMC1764 SPEYSIDE’S FINEST 41 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh + fruity, runs to spicy caramelised oranges + bees wax
Palate: Rich + mouthcoating with dark chocolate + spices (star anise?)
Finish: Long, spiced, with an orange tang + more (bitter) dark chocolate (J)

The tasting notes for the three (3) OLD & RARE are:

OAR0085 PORT ELLEN 30 YEAR OLD
This big beachy beauty has not gone “soft” on the nose and is still freshly oceanic in style, lightly peated, turning confectionery sweet, as it warms. On the palate, the soft chewed leather is there plus warm summer tar, iodine and Islay maritime phenolic quality – all running to a finish initially pastel
sweet, almost floral, peppery, subtly peated and long. (F)

OAR0086 GLENCADAM 32 YEAR OLD
On the nose detect truly attractive round, toasted, sweet, fruity, vanilla’d and gristy tones. Initially on the palate it is massively spiced and distinctly citric, with marmalade-on-toast flavours. All of this leads to an attractively “perfumed” finish which is zesty, still spiced and deep down warming. (F)

OAR0078 BANFF 38 YEAR OLD
This Banff has a wealth of olfactory treats with a character of polished wooden cigar boxes, vanilla’ed tobacco and bananas. The palate opens with sweet spices, toffee and develops a peaty, smokey oak style.The finish is deep and long, still sweet becoming smoked and spicy. (J)

Three (3) Advance Samples have been added, being:

SMC0346 BOWMORE 8 YEAR OLD
SMC0347 ROYAL LOCHNAGAR 12 YEAR OLD
SMC0345 CAOL ILA 15 YEAR OLD

As for DOUBLE BARREL we will release the first vatting of a Caol Ila/Braeval (sherry cask).

All best wishes,

Yours faithfully
Fred H Laing
Managing Director

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