October Outturn: Naughty Nectar
A sweet selection of 12 single cask, single malts to set your heart aflutter…

7.70 Naughty nectar
Speyside Lossie
£65.60 inc free p&p
The nose conveyed elegance and maturity – perfumed honey, dried coconut and exotic fruits (lychees, star-fruit, water melon, Keith Floyd’s flambéed barbecued bananas)

WOW: Closed distillery
99.13 Exotic scenes in a Bedouin tent
Highland Eastern
£100 inc free p&p
The intriguing nose offered so much – we found beeswax, honey, brown sugar, leather, polish, tobacco and tequila – but couldn’t resist the powerful image of platters of exotic fruits served by belly-dancers in a Bedouin prince’s tent

77.26 A foodie dram
Highland Northern
£70 inc. free p&p
Surprisingly prickly for its age, with sharp, citric notes, but warming – ‘like opening the door of an oven’… Appetising food scents immediately crowded us: apple and pear crumble with brambles; pork sausage

53.154 Surfer’s sundown dram
Islay
£60.10 inc. free p&p
Unreduced the nose was like the soft smoke of burning driftwood on a distant dune. Damp coarse sand, seaweed and brine fill the nostrils

G5.3 Extraordinary taste intensity
Single Cask Grain
£51.60 inc. free p&p
We found a fabulous, unusual nose – polished oak, coconut and perfumed smoke; curry spices, toasted sesame seeds and aniseed

October Outturn SAVINGS:
Oct Naughty Pair: 64.32 & 93.46

Sinful Sipping Trio: 26.82, 37.49 & 93.46

Electric Six: 64.32, 26.82, 37.49, 93.46, 4.155 & 53.154

Oct Outturn Browse all bottlings (51 single casks online)

SMWS Tastings & Events (49 events online)
Steak & Whisky Tastings – London, Mon 10 Oct
Malmaison Aberdeen Dinner – Malmaison, Wed 12 Oct
Whisky, Sausage & Beer Tastings – Queen Street, Fri 14 Oct
Melrose Preview Tasting – Town House Hotel, Fri 14 Oct
New Members Tasting – London, Thu 20 Oct
Apple Day Celebrations – The Vaults, Fri 21 Oct
All About Sherry – Queen Street, Wed 26 Oct
Oxford Preview Tasting – Oxford Castle, Fri 28 Oct
Sheffield Preview Tasting – Leopold Hold, Fri 28 Oct
Chester-le-Street Preview Tasting – Cricket Club, Fri 28 Oct

More Society tastings

Society Hogmanay Celebrations: Sat 31 Dec

The Vaults Hogmanay: There will be music to get your feet tapping. A sturdy bowl of stovies will be served to keep you going. The tempo will rise as we get ready for the bells; with Annabel sharing her dram of the year.

Hogmanay Gala Dinner, The Dining Room: After a Champagne welcome we serve a five-course dinner in the comfortable surroundings of The Dining Room. Afterwards the night is yours to spend where you like.

Hogmanay Member’s Room Event: Enjoy a fantastic two-course, live music and dancing as we see in the bells in the Members’ Rooms

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