Dear Client

On this run up to Christmas we are offering you access to ten (10) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label- four (4) new outstanding OLD & RAREs – two (2) CLAN DENNY Grains (the 48 year old Cambus being the sister cask to Jim Murray’s Best Grain 2012) together with one new bottling each of the DIRECTOR’S CUT and PREMIER BARREL.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK follow:

OMC2112 BOWMORE SHERRY 11 YEARS
Nose: Spiced and sweet – fruity and tarry – now salty and dry.
Palate: Sweetly spiced – tongue tingling – phenolic & lightly smoked.
Finish: Carries a camphor cough drop style + an oily & peaty length. (F)

OMC2116 HIGHLAND PARK SHERRY 15 YEARS
Nose: Sweetly (dark) fruited – lightly spiced – gently malted.
Palate: Carries toffee + vanilla + malt + honey and more spices.
Finish: Warmingly spiced, with cough drops and smoky trails (F)

OMC2108 CLYNELISH 16 YEARS
Nose: Fresh & clean – zesty & grassy – gristy & husky.
Palate: Lemon citric – barley sweet – runs to warming spices.
Finish: Cough drops + more barley gristiness & natural caramel. (F)

OMC2103 FETTERCAIRN 16 YEARS
Nose: Fresh, floral & perfumed with a fruit compote + ginger note.
Palate: Sweet – like barley sugar candies + a honey on toast character
Finish: Now slightly drier with orange peel & developing spices. (P)

OMC2114 MACALLAN BOURBON 18 YEARS
Nose: Big + darkly fruited+ vanilla, sweet barley + citrus.
Palate: Sweet with butterscotch, barley grist and crunched sugar.
Finish: Replicates the palate + camphor style cough drops. (F)

OMC2093 LITTLEMILL 20 YEARS
Nose: Spicy, clean and sweet with gentle barley tones.
Palate: Still, overtly and warmly spiced + a sweet, gristiness.
Finish: Lightly butterscotch in style + camphor character. (F)

OMC2110 MILTONDUFF 21 YEARS
Nose: Cedarwood in style + honey + apples & spicy zest.
Palate: Mouthcoats with gentle spices/grist/autumn fruit/camphor.
Finish: Softly warming cough drops + heather honey & burnt toast. (F)

OMC2109 GLEN GARIOCH 25 YEARS
Nose: Clean – fresh and sweet + toffee and autumnal fruits.
Palate: Softly honeyed + Scottish tablet&– malted barley.
Finish: Refined … . orange zesty – sweetly spiced and vanilla’d (F)

OMC2098 GLENLIVET 34 YEARS
Nose: Clean and honeyed with lemon, cedar, barley and late smoke.
Palate: “Dark” – warmly spiced + more honey, vanilla & crunched sugar.
Finish: Carries vanilla tablet + dry spices – still barley’d and warming. (F)

OMC2117 GLEN GRANT BRANDY CASK FINISH 36 YEARS
Nose: Opens sweetly – with toffee, malt and a spiced biscuits character
Palate: Still sweet, now spicy + dark fruit & a fine oaked quality
Finish: Replicates the palate with spiced fruit & a dry charred oak style (F & J)

Tasting Notes for OLD & RARE:

OAR0153 SPRINGBANK 20 YEARS
The nose opens with a spicy, sea-weedy character and runs to ripe sugared banana plus oranges and a vanilla/cedar wood style. The palate is initially light and subtle – dry (even desiccating) and spicy – then it develops to an attractive smoky and briny quality. Spicy characteristics continue on the long sweet/woody finish which carries a gun powder tea style – then runs to more wood, dark sea-weed, and soft leather. (F&J)

OAR0158 TAMDHU SHERRY 21 YEARS
Opens richly spiced on the nose carrying a dark fruit and attractively dry and nutty character. The palate is mouth coating, still spicy and develops to a Macedonia of macerated raisins and red fruit plus a later subtle smoked quality. The finish is long with a cherries (coated in dark chocolate) sweetness that runs to a drier, oak and cedar wood style. (J)

OAR0149 PORT ELLEN SHERRY 28 YEARS
Opens with a spicy, leather character and runs to nuts, dried fruit and a light ashy style. Initially the palate is round and mellow with flames/burnt orange peel before rich smoke develops with a burned polished wood style. The finish is LONG with ashes – soft tar – salty liquorice – sweet peat smoke going on and on… (J)

OAR0152 SPEYSIDE’S FINEST SHERRY 46 YEARS
If the colour has not given it away yet, the nose certainly does – distinctly sherried and richly spiced with dried dates, warm toffee & ginger. The palate carries a creamy butterscotch quality infused with a surprisingly fresh orange zesty trait. The finish is long, still spicy plus a sweet hazelnut marzipan character. (J)

CLAN DENNY GRAIN Tasting Notes:

DEN0080 INVERGORDON 45 YEARS
Fresh, fruity, vanilla’d, gristy and oaked – hinting at Autumnal apples, heavily spiced, all on the nose. Palatewise – it is massively sweetly spiced – still oaked – Bourbon in style, vanilla’d and mouthcoating. The finish is (Grain style) short but still sweetly spiced and warming. (F)

DEN0081 CAMBUS 48 YEARS
Look at the colour! Detect on the nose: Bourbon, vanilla and cereal based, spicy, zesty, sweetness. The palate is perfectly weighted – tinglingly spiced on the tongue with oak, honey and more of that citric zestiness – all leading to a lightly camphored, still vanilla’d and now a late buttery finish. (F)

Tasting Notes for DIRECTORS CUT:

DIR0006 PORT DUNDAS 30 YEARS

Nose: Sweetly spiced + a rich cinnamon & vanilla style
Palate: Sweet & warming + mouth coating vanilla & spices
Finish: Long + an attractive oak & milk chocolate character (J)

PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes:

PBR0111 MORTLACH 14 YEARS
Mortlach …. a Masterful miscellany of majesterial and meritorious Malt mash devoid (de facto) of deficiency with its fruit, spice, mocha and Malt …… all made manifest multifariously and Munificently – nay, magnificently! (F)

CLAN DENNY GRAIN Tasting Notes:

DEN0080 INVERGORDON 45 YEARS
Fresh, fruity, vanilla’d, gristy and oaked – hinting at Autumnal apples, heavily spiced, all on the nose. Palatewise – it is massively sweetly spiced – still oaked – Bourbon in style, vanilla’d and mouthcoating. The finish is (Grain style) short but still sweetly spiced and warming. (F)

DEN0081 CAMBUS 48 YEARS
Look at the colour! Detect on the nose: Bourbon, vanilla and cereal based, spicy, zesty, sweetness. The palate is perfectly weighted – tinglingly spiced on the tongue with oak, honey and more of that citric zestiness – all leading to a lightly camphored, still vanilla’d and now a late buttery finish. (F)

We hope this selection running from young to old and from Hogsheads to Sherry casks will work for you and being the last monthly email to you for 2011 – we want to thank you for your much appreciated support through 2011. We never take that for granted – and now we want to be amongst the first to wish you a healthy (above all!) and wealthy 2012.

Yours faithfully

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

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