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Glen Scotia 11yo (59.1%, SMWS of Canada, 93.42, Refill Butt, 735 Bts.)

“Explosion in a honey factory” On the nose some very nice sherry notes come through and some good smoke with some maritime brininess along with apricots. With some time in the glass the alcohol is replaced by the afore mentioned aromas and then some (once again) very nice tobacco and leather (sharp and clean) plus smoked grapefruit (whatever the hell that is; but you take the point). Distinctive and very much Glen Scotia. The taste is strong (but not ever whelming) with some good sweetness, the smokey brininess and the leather and tobacco. After a moment or to the smoke suddenly emerges to tie everything together. There is also some really good creaminess one often associates with sherry and then later moments of dryness. Very good so far. The finish is very good and warming with loads of the sherry and the smoke; the two really combine to make for a very good finish which is long and then after a moment or two the malt finally makes an appearance. Then the finish becomes smoke malt and yet is still very distinctively Glen Scotia. After 10 minutes some singularly brilliant dry crunchy peat smoked malt’ like scooping a handful from the storage bin!

An excellent example from this distillery. The interplay between the smoke, malt and sherry is delightful.

$120 (+/-)

89 points

Part two of four examining SMWS of Canada Bottlings….