March 2011

Dear Customer

Being released in March we have eight (8) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label, and one (1) under the CLAN DENNY Grains label.

Tasting notes for OLD MALT CASK:

OMC 1992 Tamdhu 13 Year Old Wine Finish
Nose: Distinctly sweet and honeyed in aspect + sugary barley.
Palate: Mouth tingling spice + stewed apples + muscovado sugar.
Finish: Citric – vanilla’d – spiced – still honied – and interesting! (F)

OMC 1995 Glendronach 15 Year Old
Nose: Sweet & malty – runs to warm apples + milk chocolate
Palate: Spicy & sweet carrying a cocoa butter, banana & toffee character
Finish: Llong – rich – still spicy – develops to an elegant oak tang (J)

OMC 1997 Scapa 17 Year Old
Nose: Sweetly malted, fresh, clean and honied + oak.
Palate: Sweet with toffee, fruit, barley and late peppermint.
Finish: Scottish tablet – (lightly salted) + dry spices. (F)

OMC 1994 Bladnoch 18 Year Old
Nose: Clean & fresh carrying a sweet malty style + poached fruit
Palate: Sweet & creamy – herbal – runs to soft boiled fruity sweets
Finish: Long, still pleasingly fruity & sweet + ripe apples & pears (J)

OMC 1996 Aberlour 20 Year Old
Nose: Non aggressive – barley rich/ even barley sugared! – and spiced.
Palate: Lightly gingered beyond its sweet, soft, smooth maltiness.
Finish: Now dryly spiced + light oak + the lightest of smoke. (F)

OMC 1990 Macallan 20 Year Old Wine Finish
Nose: Lightly spiced + a fruit shop tone + dry toasted oak/late toffee
Palate: Viscous – with chewy fruit flavoured toffee + malt & spice
Finish: Now drier + a cough drop sweetness + late soft red fruit (F)

OMC 2000 Lochside 21 Year Old
Nose: Sweet + a tropical fruit style – running to spice + antique oak + barley
Palate: Richly spiced – still fruity – carrying a warming, sweet cedar quality
Finish: Llong & richly spiced alternated with a fruity (strawberry & cream?) style (J)

OMC 1999 Clynelish 21 Year Old
Nose: Clean, fresh & fruity, warm citrus fruit + crushed sugar
Palate: Still fresh & sweet, warms to a spicy, lemon pith quality
Finish: Llong, carrying a lemon meringue (slightly burnt) character (J)

Tasting Notes for the CLAN DENNY GRAIN

DEN 0059 Girvan 45 Year Old
Carries crunched sugar (then barley sugar) + spices, sweet oils and a bit of the original Bourbon cask – all on the nose. Massively sweet on the palate – distinctly syrupy it then warms to an Italian herbal liqueur style + those same earlier detected spices. It has a short but still sweet finish with a late/more oaky suggestion to it. (F).

We believe we have selected some real “beauties” for you to enjoy.

All best wishes

Fred Laing

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