We’re giving members a taste of things to come by releasing five preview bottlings from July Outturn. Each of these preview releases is from a different flavour profile, celebrating the diversity of flavour that the single cask brings. A great opportunity to buy before next month’s First Friday. Be quick to order, only a limited number of bottles are available ahead of the full Outturn release on Friday, 7th July at 9am.

Preview samples from the entire new Outturn are available at our Members’ Rooms in Edinburgh, Leith, London & our new London Devonshire Square venue.

PEATED

Tasting Notes

Returning back to dry land after a windswept day out at sea, the aromas of briny air, tarry ropes and wooden fish boxes starting to become a distant memory as we entered a cottage. The roaring peat fire and the scent of making cinder toffee and roasting chestnuts made us all feel very relaxed. We then ate hot smoked salmon, grilled sardines and Arbroath Smokies. After a drop of water we went back outside and enjoyed a beach barbeque of slightly burned lemon and herb sausages. After seven years in an ex-bourbon barrel, finished in a custom made virgin oak barrel.

CASK No. 66.104
Home sweet home
8 Years
£46.50

LIGHTLY PEATED

Tasting Notes

The nose delivered a mellifluous flood of honeycomb, toffee and golden syrup sweetness; then deeper notes of charred wood, glazed ribs on a barbeque and salty ship’s timbers. The palate was rich, deep and pretty big – warming and mouth-coating with treacle toffee, tarry ropes, smoky bacon crisps, bonfire embers and liquorice paper roll-ups. The reduced nose had charred heather stems (moor-burn by the sea), burnt toffee, and well-fired white bread crusts, salted caramel and balsamic oysters. With water (and it takes plenty), the palate found the peat smoke, charred staves and cigar ash elbowing the butterscotch sweetness slightly into the background.

CASK No. 4.230
Sweet and salty, smoke and ash
12 Years
£66.90

SPICY & DRY

Tasting Notes

“Shimmering Sahara sunset” someone described the colour as they poured it into the glass and the complex aroma which greeted us was rich but at the same time soft and gentle. Lemon butter biscuits, toasted coconut marshmallows, a well-used leather tobacco pouch, red cedar oil and dried apricot and pineapple jam. The taste neat had plenty of wood spice and bitterness like a dark chocolate ganache with red tea, rooibos blended with cinnamon, orange peel, ginger, star anise, cloves and black pepper. Water added roasted hazelnut brownies, orange marmalade cookies and on the palate, spicy, tangy and sticky like Moroccan lamb and kumquat tagine.

CASK No. 35.187
Gentle confidence
9 Years
£49.40

SPICY & SWEET

Tasting Notes

As soon as the bottle was opened it was like springtime had entered the room. Birds began singing and the air filled with the fragrance of rose gardens, fruit blossom and freshly cut grass. The smell of peaches and lychees combined with the aromas of fresh herbs and the revitalising tang of menthol and camphor. A spicy element was present like fruit chutney, hot cross buns and cigar tobacco. A sprinkling of water unveiled new pastures of coconut, chocolate and nutmeg. The palate assumed a fizzy and lively demeanour with the fruity sweetness of apricots, poached pears and yellow plums. The finish however was rich in oak timber and the pleasant presence of wood spice.

CASK No. 2.99
Joyful rambling
10 Years
£59.40

DEEP, RICH & DRIED FRUITS

Tasting Notes

A floral fragrance of blooming daffodils and hyacinths greeted the Panel at first before deeper and darker aromas took centre stage. Sultanas, currants, ginger, cinnamon and black pepper – like a black bun, a fruit cake wrapped in pastry, as well as figs marinated in PX Sherry. The taste neat was a chewy, slightly burnt Christmas pudding and cherries soaked in sweet red wine syrup. With a drop of water toffee apples, dark chocolate covered Brazil nuts and orange blossom flavoured candles on the nose were followed by liquorice sweetness and caramelised honey crème brulee. At thirteen years old, we transferred this whisky from an ex-Oloroso butt to a virgin oak hogshead with a heavy toast and a medium char.

CASK No. 44.82
A sweet and special character
13 Years
£56.10

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