On the heels of the indulgences of the holiday season, we present seven delicious drams, all with a foodie theme in the title…because you probably haven’t had enough good stuff in the last few weeks! Dig in and enjoy January’s temptations…

To purchase please contact The Strath Ale Wine and Spirit Merchants at http://ow.ly/ssFIF

Cask No. 50.51 Wedding cake and jelly babies
22 years old; refill bourbon barrel; 55.8%abv
The juicy, fruity nose has apples, oranges, pineapple, vanilla, wedding cake and jelly babies, but all packaged in walnut shells, bookshelves and dunnage warehouse pulpits. The palate is big and tasty – candied chestnuts, buttered gingerbread, Snickers, honey.

Cask No. 84.15 An apple a day…
11 years old; refill bourbon barrel; 56.4%abv
Very fruity, red apples, bananas and pears followed by sweet lemon drizzle cake. The taste neat is hot like biting on a chili. With water, apple sorbet and Campino candy; the taste is very refreshing like a spritzy apple wine with sparkling water.

Cask No. 64.42 Peppered strawberries with Creme Anglaise
22 years old; refill bourbon barrel; 55.6%abv
A walk on a warmer summer’s evening in a flower garden, with honey brioche and Creme Anglaise. Neat on the taste, velvety and mouth-coating and slightly peppered strawberries. With very little water it turns into a fruit cocktail and barley sugar soaked in rum.

Cask No. G7.4 Buttery waffles on polished wood
28 years old; refill hogshead; 58.4%abv
The delightfully sweet nose suggests toffee sauce, ice-cream, banana and iced caramels-complexified by cigarette packets and oriental massage parlours. The palate has maple syrup, chocolate fondue with fruit and oaky spices (clove, nutmeg, cinnamon) – lip-smackingly tasty.

Cask No. 73.51 Mead, sherry and butterscotch
23 years old; refill sherry butt; 57.9%abv
Burnt notes of marmalade, hot sneakers, maple syrup and welly boots – pleasant for some, not for others. Hot, bitter, and tannic to taste, crying out for water. Dilution revealed mead, dark honey, raisins, figs, butterscotch, brown sugar; elegant on the palate (still rubbery) with barley sugar, apricot jam.

Cask No. 66.36 Milano salami and tropical fruit kebab
10 years old; refill sherry butt; 58.2%abv
This is a big, massive dram – Italian salami, spare ribs marinated in a hickory sauce. The taste is hot, spicy and smoky like a heavily char-grilled sausage. With water tropical fruit notes appear and the taste has a scorched heather note to finish.

Cask No. 33.125 Salted caramel lollipop
7 years old; 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel; 64.4%abv
Smoky peaty chimneys, fresh tobacco, breakfast kippers and gauze dressings neat on the nose. The taste antiseptic cream, peaty, tarry but also fresh and salty. Water adds sticking tar to an expensive leather shoe and the taste is a balance between smoke, sweetness and salt.

To purchase please contact The Strath at
http://ow.ly/ssFIF