Give in to the attraction of the wonderful whiskies in November’s Outturn!

For full tasting notes of November’s releases please visit http://www.smws.ca/ but for now let our brief bottle notes pull you in:

Cask No. 1.176 Zesty ginger lime cooler $185.90
16 years old; refill hogshead; 55.4% Spicy & sweet
Initially fresh green saplings, apricots and peaches followed by old-fashioned rose water perfume. The taste neat has flavours of Weetabix cereal, red apples and the freshness of a ‘Zesty Ginger-Lime Cooler.’ With water, preparing a fruit punch and enjoying a minty grapefruit sorbet.

Cask No. 64.53 Retro and kitsch $161.90
12 years old; 1st fill barrel; 57.2% Young & spritely
Like stepping back to granny’s home. Kahlua, homemade lemonade and Pledge. Stewed apple and coffee chocolates. Lip tingling clip around the ear with root ginger. Grapefruit with a sugar crust, Jamaica loaf. Grandfather’s old vinyl records and warm leather car seats completed the picture.

Cask No. 39.92 Dessert wine and smoking jacket $231.90
23 years old; refill hogshead; 49.5% Sweet, fruity & mellow
To start on the nose, honey-covered toast, chocolate and coconut. To taste, crispy bacon, pancakes and maple syrup. With water, pork chops followed by Eton Mess on the nose. To taste, darkly roasted coffee, ginger cake and brown sugar.

Cask No. 9.82 Breathe in long! $251.90
25 years old; refill butt; 52.1% Old & dignified
The aroma is like a meditative walk through a summer garden with the taste of melting chocolate and honey dripping from a wooden spoon. A tiny drop of water adds rich vanilla custard sauce and an overall great balance of sweet and spicy flavours – Soporific!

Cask No. 4.183 Something for everyone $157.90
13 years old; 1st fill barrel; 62.1% Lightly peated
Multi-faceted nose; apple flan, heather honey, Miso soup, briny, smoky, ashy and exotic cedar. The taste is an intriguing balance of sweet and savoury; treacle tart, peanuts and balsamic tahini salad dressing. Water adds maritime notes and in the flavour garlic Indian Naan bread.

Cask No. 93.57 Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of this! $225.90
21 years old; refill sherry butt; 58.3% Oily & coastal
The nose provides appeal from sherry-soaked Chrismas cake and balsamic-glazed pears – also toffee, tobacco, burlap and smoke, evocative of old sailing ships. The palate has cinnamon, nutmeg, iced gingerbread, toffee apples, sweet sherry, honey-glazed ribs, vanilla, wood, leather and ash.

Cask No. 127.39 Intensely tasty $156.90
11 years old; refill sherry butt; 66.7% Heavily peated
The nose has tobacco leaf, dried fish, smoke, Germolene antiseptic, soap in a coal scuttle, dark honey, bacon and caraway-flavoured rye bread. The palate suggests sea shells, oily mackerel, treacle, liquorice, Tabasco, toasted sesame seeds with honey and deep-fried Mars Bars. Wowee!

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