JANUARY OUTTURN PREVIEWS

Happy New Year, we hope 2014 brings you oodles of tasty drams. To kick start things, we’ve released two preview bottlings from January’s Outturn. Only a few bottles are available before the official release on Fri 10 Jan.

JANUARY PREVIEW BOTTLES

Heavily peated
53.200
18YO
Refill ex-sherry butt A day at the beach
We found ourselves on the beach next to a fishing harbour and the boats are coming in landing their catch of scallops, crabs and langoustines. Aromas of fresh seaweed growing on the rocky shore and old overgrown wooden groynes are mingling with the harbour smells. The taste neat is like a ‘pick-me-up’, a sweet, salty and clean fresh sea breeze, oysters with Tabasco sauce and honey butter roasted scallops. With water warm like the engine room of a fish trawler or starting a barbecue at the end of a hot day. BUY
£71.70

Spicy & dry
76.113
11YO
First-fill ex-bourbon barrel John Barleycorn was a hero bold
The nose weaved an intriguing tale (chiefly in the Scottish dialect). Oak shavings, linseed oil and new pine furniture in the National Library of Scotland. Then, we dream’d we lay where flowers were springing (heady scents of marigolds and lavender). A citric sharpness appeared with barley sugars, tea caddies and mild tobacco. Water softened – wood and laundry conjured up Steamie washboards; also butterscotch, Barbour Jackets and snuff. BUY
£49.50

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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video