Descriptors for the aroma came fast and furious – gravadlax sauce, beech-smoked trout, black peppercorn-infused rye whisky and homemade sweet ploughman’s pickle. The taste was like smoked brisket pastrami prepared in a brine of pink curing salt, sugar and spices, alongside mild goat’s cheese on Jamaican gingerbread – intrigued? You should be! And what a change after the addition of water. Initially we stayed in the Caribbean with a warm Jamaican-style coffee and walnut cake followed by the sweet scent of cherry wood- smoked marshmallows. On the palate, we now found a mixture between a smoked battenberg cake and tiramisu with smoked cocoa powder.

Moments like this are why being a member of the SMWS is so special. In just a few hours (now long past- WI) we’ll release our first offering from a Hebridean distillery located on the Isle of Harris.  This is also the first release by the distillery from an independent bottler. This whisky will also be available to enjoy by the dram at our Members’ Rooms.

Cask No. 163.1: Smokin’! 

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ

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This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video