Dear Customer

This month we have eight (8) new PROVENANCE releases:

PRV0712 MORTLACH SHERRY FINISHED 8 YEAR OLD
Opens with a sweetly spiced character running to a warming, coffee & chocolate praline quality. The palate is spicy and carries a dried raisin sweetness, reminiscent of old fortified wines. The finish is long, still spicy with a soft anise style. (J)

PRV0689 FETTERCAIRN 10 YEAR OLD
Opens with a fresh hay like and fruity (peaches) character on the nose and develops to a green malt quality. The palate is sweet and carries a strawberry jam,macerated fruit, and elderflower style. The finish is short but sweet and remains pleasingly fresh & light. (J)

PRV0713 CRAGGANMORE 11 YEAR OLD
The sweet nose carries a fresh vanilla’d character with a creamy, home baked quality. The palate is still sweet, now spicier plus a rich malty character. The finish is medium long, barley sugared and runs drier towards the end. (J)

PRV0668 ROYAL BRACKLA 11 YEAR OLD
Fresh and clean on the nose, runs to a sweet fruity style –just like opening a bag of wine gums! Still sweet on the palate, now honeyed, and carries to a gristy quality. The finish is round and mellow with a ripe pear style. (J)

PRV0705 ARRAN 12 YEAR OLD
On the nose – detect its full malty goodness with citrus and even some crème caramel tones! The palate has a smooth entry into barley, oak, Scottish tablet and clove studded orange –which all runs into a finish full of liquorice, vanilla, oak and more barley all being apparent. (F)

PRV0655 GLEN GRANT 12 YEAR OLD
Opens fresh and sweet on the nose – running to an alcoholic fruit salad style – plus a home baked biscuit quality. The palate is full and round, sweetly spiced, still fruity, carrying a grist and honey style. The finish is long, with an attractive butterscotch character running to a toffee sponge finale. (J)

PRV0706 GLEN ORD 12 YEAR OLD
The fresh and sweetly fruited nose runs to an attractively light, grassy character. The palate replicates the nose with poached pears in a spicy vanilla syrup style. The finish remains fruity now with orange pith and a spicy tang. (J)

PRV0716 MACALLAN 13 YEAR OLD
The nose is fresh & clean, carrying a freshly ground malt character plus some golden syrup. The palate opens sweetly and runs to a fruit jelly and vanilla’d (custard style) quality. The finish remains fruitily sweet throughout, now with a tangy citric character. (J)

We hope you will appreciate these latest releases!

Best regards,

Fred Laing
Managing Director

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