Dear Client This month we are proposing eight (8) different OLD MALT CASK bottlings as well as three (3) OLD & RAREs, plus one (1) new DIRECTOR’S CUT and one (1) OLD MALT CASK Cigar Malt. The second bottling of our Mortlach/Laphroaig DOUBLE BARREL will also be released. The first bottling sold out very fast through the latter part of 2011.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK:

OMC 2140 Caol Ila 15 Year Old Nose: BarBQ’d steaks+ sweet smoky bacon + ash/burnt twigs. Palate: Damp earthy + barley juice …… smoky with more ash – now tar. Finish: Sooty, with sweet tar which runs long. So mellow!(F)

OMC 2142 Glenburgie 16 Year Old Nose: Polished wood & sweet spices – like an old style sweetie shop Palate: Smooth & mellow – softly spiced – runs to a butterscotch style Finish: Long – replicating nose & palate + warming sensations (J)

OMC 2134 Strathisla 16 Year Old Nose: Fresh & clean + a spiced fruit quality + a wooden fruit boxes style Palate: Opens sweetly & softly spiced – runs to honey on buttered toast Finish: Long – still buttery – developing to a sweet oily/waxy character (J)

OMC 2143 Glen Grant 18 Year Old Nose: Light & fresh – sweetly fruited – running to a barley sugar style Palate: Sweet & softly spiced – developing to a fruity wine gum quality Finish: Medium long, still sweet – with vanilla and spicy orange pith (J)

OMC 2132 Laphroaig 18 Year Old Nose: Surprisingly sweet & vanilla’d + waves of smoked ham & ashes Palate: Distinctly Islay with honeyed burnt toast + sweet chimney soot Finish: Sweetly smoked with dry wood fire ashes & soft chewy tar (J)

OMC 2113 Glenlossie 18 Year Old Nose: Light & sweet – carrying a vanilla + home baked character Palate: Clean & fresh with barley sugar + attractively sweet spices Finish: Medium long, still sweet + orange zest coated in milk chocolate (J)

OMC 2147 Benriach 21 Year Old Nose: Fragrantly fruity – subtly spiced,lightly barley’d/lightly oaked. Palate: Dessicatingly citric – gristy + light gingery spices and distinct oak. Finish: More spiced now – soft but warming with late barley sugar (F)

OMC 2139 Macduff 21 Year Old Nose: Fresh & fragrant – a Macedonia of fruit + honey & vanilla Palate: Sweetly spiced + candied fruit + lemon & honey cough drops Finish: Sweet + a citric tang – reminiscent of a lemon meringue pie (J)

Tasting Note for OLD MALT CASK CIGAR MALT follows OMC

2145 Laphroaig 10 Year Old Nose: Sweetly smoked – creosoted + bonfire ashes Palate: Distinctly Islay – smoke + ashes + sweet tar Finish: Long + sweet liquorice & a charred fruit style (J)

Tasting Notes follow here for OLD AND RARE

OAR 0164 Glenrothes 21 Year Old Sherry Big – full of dark fruits and lively spices on the nose initially – it mellows as it warms to tobacco smells and a damp whisky warehouse character. On the palate the Sherry cask influences it early with more (now macerated) fruit – then sweet barley, more tobacco, vanilla and mocha flavours alternately appear. The finish is more vanilla’d now plus late cough drop style warming (now menthol!) spices. (F)

OAR 0148 Laphroaig 25 Year Old Spirited and sweet on the initial nosing – it warms to a more phenolic, oily, then barely sugar style, drifting back to peat. Palatewise it is subtly and sweetly peated – running to camphor laden cough drops with late – very late – tar….. then its finish carries a long, now more iodine and old creosoted beach fence character. (F)

OAR 0154 Glencadam 34 Year Old Sherry The nose opens with a complex mix of aromas ranging from sweet leather and nuts to dried orange peel. The palate is rich, mouth coating and carries an interesting tobacco quality which runs to warm oranges and cloves. The long finish is overall spicy with a hazelnut marzipan character lingering on. (J)

The Tasting Note for DIRECTOR’S CUT is:

DIR 0008 Bunnahabhain 20 Year Old Nose: Fresh & fragrant – sweetly gristed + vanilla tablet & orange blossom Palate Has a distinct spiced fruit character + a sweet, softly oaked quality Finish: Long & spicy – carrying an orange pith and liquorice/cloves style (J)

We believe these are great additions to our ranges – exemplifying the best of young and middle aged/old casks with the best of the best (O&R), but that decision rests with you! We hope to be of assistance to you, and send you our ….. Best wishes

Fred H Laing Managing Director