Dear Customer

We have caught up a little on our preferred schedule for the OLD MALT CASK offering 8 new selections (including an 18 year old Ardbeg) From the DOUBLE BARREL brand we have batch number 6 of the Macallan/Laphroaig and have filled 2 new PREMIER BARREL bottlings in their ceramic decanters – hoping for your and your valued clients ongoing interest.

Tasting Notes follow first for OLD MALT CASK

OMC1843 MORTLACH (SHERRY) 12 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens spicy, with a Christmas pudding quality – runs to barley & toffee
Palate: Warming, mouth coating, still spicy – develops to a vanilla + oak style
Finish: Long & richly spiced, carries to a toffee on burnt toast character (J)

OMC 1839 DEANSTON 15 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh & flowery – runs to honey with a fruit Macedonia style
Palate: Warming, spicy + sweet barley + a stewed tropical fruit quality
Finish: Short and delicious, still fresh with an attractive fruit tang (J)

OMC1755 ARDBEG 18 YEAR OLD
Nose: Starts sweet, warms to barley, tails to peat.
Palate: Heavily and sweetly phenolic, now tarry/creosoted
Finish: Sweet with soft tar, plus light smoke ‘n’ spice (F)

OMC1842 GLEN SCOTIA (SHERRY FINISHED) 18 YEAR OLD
Nose: Toffee & shortbread, dried fruit + a buttery sweet character
Palate: Opens sweetly, then warmingly spiced + a dry oaky style
Finish: Long, dry, runs to a nutty/late herbal (camomile?) quality (J)

OMC1840 TAMNAVULIN 18 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens with toffee and tobacco – runs to sweet spices + a ripe fruit style
Palate: Initially fresh & gristy, carries to a macerated fruit style + more toffee
Finish: Round and smooth, still sweet with more spices + a light smoky quality (J)

OMC1841 DALMORE (Amontillado SHERRY FINISHED) 20 YEAR OLD
Nose: Malty and spiced, smoothly oaked, fruit gums in style + chickory?
Palate: Massively dry, very spiced , and attractively “waxy”.
Finish: With a dry cough mixture style – distinctly Amontillado in character (F)

OMC1838 GLENBURGIE 20 YEAR OLD
Nose: Barley sweet + stewed raspberries + caramelised peaches
Palate: Still sweet + wine gums + orange liqueur + buttery vanilla
Finish: Medium long, with a gristy dryness + orange pith (J)

OMC1844 MORTLACH 21 YEAR OLD
Nose: Honey sweet initially – running drier and spicier.
Palate: Gentle till held – then Malt, honey and spices kick in.
Finish: Big on camphor, warmingly spiced, sweet then dry! (F)

The OLD & RARE Tasting Notes follow:

0AR0097 BOWMORE (SHERRY FINISH) 22 YEAR OLD
This is not your typical Bowmore. The nose is fresh and carries sweet spices, muscovado sugar and runs to spicy fruit boxes, polished wood and tobacco. The palate is mild, round and has different layers which interchange throughout between spicy toffee and honey, to ashes and a pipe smoke quality. The finish is long and well balanced between sweetness and smoke, spices and ashes (J)

Tasting Notes for PREMIER BARREL are as follows:

PBR0077 HIGHLAND PARK 11YEAR OLD
Watch out for the Parky! This one’s purview particularly provides a protégé’s package of dulcet purity and a pugnaciously palpable pedigree/prospectus of fabulous phenolic propensity and providence to partake. A pageant of peat! (F)

PBR0076 MACALLAN 12 YEAR OLD
AR OLDA highfalutin homily to a hugely harmonious harvest of honey – stimulated by a swanky splice of spice – specifically, a calculatedly cumulative current of curiously camouflaged camphor. The meritorious made manifest in the Macallan! (F)

DOUBLE BARREL

DBS0012 MACALLAN/LAPROAIG 10 YEAR OLD
The Laphroaig dominates yet allows waves of soft honey from the Macallan to roll ashore. We believe these are all of the correct quality we, and you look for in our bottlings and we hope that they will have your interest accordingly. We will look forward to hearing from you over the coming weeks and send you our best wishes from all – including BIG PEAT (on his 9th batch) – at Douglas Laing & Company.

Yours sincerely

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

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