Dear Customer

This month we offer you seven (7) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label, one (1) new PREMIER BARREL, two (2) from OLD & RARE ,two (2) Old CLAN DENNY GRAINS, and six (6) new ADVANCE SAMPLE 20 cls bottlings. Also available this month is a new “big hitter” from the DOUBLE BARREL series – being Laphroaig/Mortlach.

Tasting notes for OLD MALT CASK follow –

OMC 2069 Glen Ord 14 Year Old
Nose: Opens clean & fresh – running to sweet fruit + a gristy style
Palate: Still sweet – a macerated ripe fruit character + gentle spices
Finish: Long – sweetly spiced with pleasant orange bitters lingering (J)

OMC 2067 Macallan 15 Year Old
Nose: Fresh & fragrant – carries a gristy/honey’ed sweet character
Palate: More honey combined with a rich spiced fruit & toffee quality
Finish: Long, carrying a real barley quality with spices and smoke lingering (F)

OMC 2070 Laphroaig 15 Year Old
Nose: Feisty –fresh – barleyed – spiced – and lightly oaked
Palate: Very fruity with crunched sugar, toffee, juicy barley + spice
Finish: Caramel sweet/warmingly spiced + with a camphor/cough drop style (F)

OMC 2073 Arran 15 Year Old
Nose: Opens sweetly + a crushed sugar quality + vanilla & ripe grapes
Palate: Still fruity – carrying a honeyed style + a fresh, sweet, citric trait
Finish: Remains sweet – now with a little tangerine – marmalade character (J)

OMC 2064 Laphroaig 21 Year Old
Nose: A subtle example – salty and earthy with hot beach sand + sweet barley.
Palate: Carries some real sweet peat + cinders & chewy muscovado sugar.
Finish: Detect: Camphor, iodine, phenols + spicy warmth + sugar and vanilla (F)

OMC 2072 Tamnavulin 21 Year Old
Nose: Opens sweetly spiced +tobacco & a bees wax quality + toffee waffles
Palate: Sweet & spicy running to ginger snaps + orange zest & chocolate
Finish: still spicy + more citrus (now spicy mandarin liqueur style) & tobacco (F & J)

OMC 2057 Glenlivet 34 Year Old
Nose: Opens sweetly running to a citrus style – lemon meringue pie
Palate: Smooth – softly spiced – carrying a hard candy sweetness
Finish: Long – still sweetly fruited – now with a lemon pith quality (J)

ADVANCE SAMPLES

SMC 0395 Glentauchers 11 Year Old
SMC 0399 Glen Grant 12 Year Old
SMC 0397 Highland Park 13 Year Old
SMC 0398 Allt A’Bhainne 14 Year Old
SMC 0400 Mortlach 14 Year Old
SMC 0396 Glen Ord 14 Year Old

Tasting Notes for CLAN DENNY GRAIN –

DEN 0069 Cambus 36 Year Old
Opens sweet & spicy and runs to a toffee & vanilla style with a honey-on-porridge character. Instantly detect the light oak and spicy nuances on the palate which continue in a sweet and warming, lightly peppered, rich quality. The finish is medium long, rich and smooth, reminiscent of sweet mocha butter cream. (F & J)

DEN 0068 Cameronbridge 37 Year Old
Opens sweetly on the nose carrying a rich toffee – and maybe even coffee – character plus a concentrated creamy vanilla style. The big palate is sweetly spiced and is round and mellow,
confirming the American/Bourbon origin of the cask reflected by the rich vanilla quality. The finish is typically short – carries a fruit cake style and is very attractively spiced, in a more-ish kind of way.(F&J)

Tasting Notes for OLD & RARE –

OAR 0135 GLENROTHES 21 Year Old Sherry Matured
It noses in a very spiced style and warms to barley with citrus – akin to a clove studded orange – whilst carrying a palate packed with sugary sweet Scotch tablet, more orange, and now some late cough drop type spices. The finish reflects the palate – though it is a little drier – still being spiced and still laced with an orange liqueur. (F)

OAR 0137 Speyside’s Finest 46 Year Old Sherry Matured
The nose opens with an appealing rich and “darkly” spiced character carrying a fresh leather & ground nuts (hazelnuts?) quality. The palate is mouth coatingly spiced with soft wood tones and runs to black cherries in alcohol and dark chocolate. The finish is long, gently oaked, and remains warmingly spiced with a “candied ginger coated in (more) dark chocolate”-style. (J)

Tasting Notes for PREMIER BARREL –

PBR 0102 Glen Grant 12 Year Old
Give me the Glen Grant! No I shan’t! Why! It’s my masterful mollifying meritorious malt mash which is now chock a block with choc that – then portrays peaches and vanilla virtuosity …… a veritable
peach (Melba) of a GG! (F)

We hope you will find some interesting Malts from this month’s selection and, as always, we send you best wishes.

Yours sincerely

Fred Laing

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