June 2011

Dear Customer

This month we have four (4) new bottlings under the PROVENANCE label.

Their Tasting Notes are:

PRV 0696 BUNNAHABHAIN 9 Year Old Sherry
Opens sweet & spicy on the nose and runs to a macerated dried fruit quality – liqueur style. The palate carries a dark chocolate and black cherries (also macerated) character – spicy and warming. The finish remains sweet & spicy with more dark chocolate that lingers. (J)

PRV 0704 LAPHROAIG 10 Year Old
Early tar prevails on the nose – very big on peat, soot with a clean beachy ozone character. The palate largely replicates the nose – plus ash, cinders, and all sorts of damp bonfire twig flavours – with a finish full of phenols with more tar, ash and now creosote enduring (F)

PRV 0708 GLENDULLAN 11 Year Old
Initially sugared on the nose – it opens further to a drier, gristy and subtly spiced style. The viscous palate shows the same early sugar – now with sweet malt – plus a general citric “bite” and a specific tang of lemon
piff. Its finish shows softer tones of both the lemon and the sugar – a room temperature Toddy! (F)

PRV 0707 GLEN SPEY 12 Year Old
Opens with a sweet, vanilla’d quality on the nose and runs to a honeyed, butterscotch style. The palate is light and carries a sweetly spiced, fruity character plus crushed sugar. The finish is drier, still spicy tailing to a white chocolate quality. (J)

We hope you will appreciate these latest releases!

With all best wishes, I remain

Yours faithfully

Fred Laing

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