IT’S TIME TO KICK BACK AND RELAX WITH ONE OF OCTOBER’S SEVEN SENSATIONAL BOTTLINGS, SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

THE CLOCK IS TICKING!

Bottle notes are below; for full tasting notes please visit http://www.smws.ca/

Also, be sure to sign up for November’s tasting on Friday, November 7th at The Strath in Victoria (by phone at 250-370-9463 or in person at 919 Douglas Street). The tastings always sell out, so don’t delay.

Old & dignified

Cask No. 41.47 Art in a bookshop café

24 years old; refill hogshead; 46.4%

An ever-changing nose that suggests paintings in a bookshop café, fruit falling in orchards, lots of sweet delights (heather honey, chocolate gateau etc) and pepper. The palate delivers beautiful sweetness (toffee, butterscotch, caramel shortcake) with poster paint, chewed pencils and pot-pourri.

Spicy & sweet

Cask No. 48.39 Red liquorice shoelaces

10 years old; 1st fill barrel; 57.4%

Fruity to start with apricots and orange oil followed by ‘Rice Krispie cakes’. In the taste a Thai green curry with lemon grass, coconut milk and coriander. With water aromas of Refreshers and the flavour, red liquorice and ginger nut biscuits dipped in tea.

Young & spritely

Cask No. 76.109 Sinfully seductive

8 years old; 1st fill barrel; 59.5%

The nose is attractively perfumed and sinfully seductive – floral notes, cereals, vanilla custard and fresh, clean fruits. The palate has iced donuts, dried fruits, lemon sorbet, pears and blossoms (an evocation of Spring); but also subtle woody spice and salty leather.

Spicy & dry

Cask No. 73.61 A work of art

24 years old; refill sherry butt; 57.2%

We are in a carpenter’s workshop restoring antique mahogany furniture. Elegant woody aromas are mixed in with the smoke of a Cuban cigar. The taste is sweet with a surprisingly dry finish. Water brings out a bag of nuts and a glass of Oloroso Dulce Sherry.

Peated

Cask No. 3.210 Sooty and sweet

17 years old; refill hogshead; 58.9%

Sooty, with burnt streaky bacon, then tide-line tar, sea-shells, beach pebbles, plastic rope. A sweet and very smoky taste, with liquorice, mixed herbs and lime marmalade.

Peated

Cask No. 66.46 ‘Pretty Woman’ in a new Maserati

11 years old; refill sherry butt; 56.7%

The nose has plum, dark cherry, smoky ribs and wood and leather (Julia Roberts wearing Pretty Woman boots in a new Maserati). The palate, apart from a baseball bat in the mouth, has tar, smoke, toffee and chicory coffee; fantastic intensity.

Peated

Cask No. 29.135 Fisherman’s Friend & aniseed lozenges

17 years old; refill barrel; 60.7%

Salty fish boxes, seaweed, beach bonfire, medicinal and wet sand neat on the nose, the taste a smoldering charcoal barbeque with langoustines being grilled. Adding water a doctors bag, salty old ropes and sweet brown sugar as well as emptying last night’s catch with a Fisherman’s Friend in your mouth.

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