Continue your love affair with our whiskies as we tempt you with the February Outturn.  For full tasting notes please visit http://www.smws.ca/ but for now enjoy the brief bottle notes below.

Also, be sure to sign up for the March tasting (on Friday, March 6th) at The Strath before it sells out.  Pop in to see them at 919 Douglas Street or call them at 250-370-9463.

Cask No. 2.87  Satisfying as a butcher’s blade

21 years old; refill hogshead; 51.7%  

Sweet, fruity & mellow

The nose combines ‘old’ impressions (antique bookshops, mentholated snuff) with fresher stewed apples, lemon, honey, carnations and peppermint. The palate is fascinating and tasty – toffee apple and caramel apple granny cake are followed by a finish of humbugs and tiger balm.

Cask No. 77.35  Fresh, vibrant and attractive

11 years old; refill barrel; 58.4%  

Young & spritely

This fresh, vibrant nose lifts you to sunny summer meadows – orange, lemon, apple, pear, grape, bourbon and vanilla, slightly woodier in reduction. The palate gives pleasant tingling heat (chili, ginger, liquorice) and tasty citrus (blood orange, sherbet lemons); good bitter-sweet duality.

Cask No. 73.63  Vanilla spice latte

11 years old; refill sherry butt; 59.8%

Juicy, oak & vanilla

An enticing fruity and sweet aroma as well as the freshness of an Appletiser Mojito which carries on in the taste with an additional kick of chili flakes. Water adds creaminess and in the taste a balance between salty and sweet flavours.

Cask No. 117.5  Smouldering, brooding and alluring

22 years old; refill sherry hogshead; 55.5%  

Deep, rich & dried fruits     Very rare Irish whiskey!

The nose is simply alluring, with cherry pieces in dark chocolate, coconut, Brazils and smouldering cinnamon and sandalwood incense. The mouth-drawing palate has Black Forest gateau, Moffatt toffees, blackcurrant jam, Campinos, fried sage and brooding eastern spices – teasing, trance-inducing and tasty.

Cask No. 4.190  Big boys smoking in the sauna

22 years old; refill hogshead; 53.9%

Spicy & dry

A punch of cigar smoke and polished wood. Mediterranean tapas and Moroccan spices on Arbroath smokies with Mexican hot chocolate. Hot sauna wood and heather with tobacco leaf unfurling. Cured hams with mango chutney. Round the world in a glass!

Cask No. 27.105  Too cool for school

13 years old; refill sherry hogshead; 53.9%

Lightly peated

Ginger nuts in creamy latte with mint chocolate ganache. Old leather books and waxed church pews, a puff of hickory smoke. Toasted marshmallow and peppered tuna steak. Ginger snap baskets with red berries. Salty french fries and chocolate milk shake.

Cask No. 29.150  Hand-rolled Cuban cigars

18 years old; refill barrel; 59.2%

Heavily peated

Watching the fishermen unloading their catch of shellfish with aromas of bacon rolls filling the salty sea air.  The taste is juicy and spicy with a hint of earthiness from a peat hearth. Adding water more fruity on the nose and flavours of hand-rolled Cuban cigars.

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