Dear Customer

Running into April we are pleased to offer you a selection of five (5) additions to OLD MALT CASK (with 5 new 20 cl bottlings in the new livery), (2) two OLD & RARE bottlings plus two (2) new CLAN DENNY GRAINS and one addition to the DOUBLE BARREL selection.

OLD MALT CASK Tasting Notes:

OMC2005 GLEN SPEY 14 YEAR OLD

Nose: Clean, fresh and malty + an autumnal fruit basket style.
Palate: Still clean – now citric + honey and sweet spices.
Finish: Still spiced with more honey and even some late vanilla. (F)

OMC2004 HIGHLAND PARK 14 YEAR OLD

Nose: A distinct peat quality prefaces a clean ozone freshness
Palate: Barley sweet – with a lighter peat and spiced content
Finish: Hints at cough drops – now malty – nicely warming. (F)

OMC2021 ARDMORE 15 YEAR OLD

Nose: Opens big and spiced – warms to mellow peated barley tones.
Palate: Distinctly peated and sweet – rather ashy and cindery.
Finish: Big/round/smoked + crunched white sugar and soot. (F)

OMC2020 AUCHROISK 21 YEAR OLD

Nose: Fresh & clean with sweet grist & fruity spices + a liquorice style
Palate: Crushed sugar & candied oranges + a fresh barley sugar quality
Finish: Remains sweet, carrying a spiced poached pear/peach character (J)

OMC1982 GLENALLACHIE SHERRY 38 YEAR OLD

Nose: Opens sweet & honeyed + polished oak & bees wax
Palate: Complex – sweet (treacle) + a richly spiced + a strong tea style
Finish: Long & rich carrying a dry & slightly oaky/tannic style (J)

OLD & RARE Tasting Notes:

OAR0128 SPEYSIDE’S FINEST SHERRY MATURED 45 YEAR OLD

Big and spicy – immediately appealing on the nose, with burnt oranges, light oak and stewed dark fruit in abundance. The palate is initally dry – warming to more spices, soft wood tones and it warms to a late toffee and cough drop suggestion. The finish is slightly mentholated, now drier than anticipated – and runs to a long yet soft course of fruit, oak and spice. (F)

OAR0121 GLEN GRANT WINE FINISH 25 YEAR OLD

On the nose detect a big round perfumed and spiced quality carrying, dark fruit dowsed and soaked in Manuka honey. Then the palate displays sweet malt, light smoke, camphor and vanilla, still with an attractive spiciness throughout – and all this leads to a finish which is sweet and Bourbon in style carrying molasses, vanilla caramel, more of those spices – carried now within a red fruit Macedonia. (F)

Tasting Notes for CLAN DENNY GRAINS:

DEN0060 DUMBARTON 45 YEAR OLD

Opens sweetly on the nose, carrying a spicy vanilla, light oak & toffee quality. The palate is smooth and mellow, richly spiced with a fruity acidity that runs to caramel and dark chocolate. The medium long finish remains sweet and vanilla’d with a spiced fruit/hard candy quality returning. (J)

DEN0067 CAMBUS 47 YEAR OLD

Wonderfully spiced with a sweet citric backdrop and barley sugar with candyfloss all apparent on the nose. Palatewise detect these same spices – now with a real soft chewy vanilla caramel flavour – plus mocha. The finish is surprisingly long for a Single Grain Whisky and carries an attractive oak quality with an orange tang. (F&J)

The DOUBLE BARREL 3RD release is

DBS0024 CAOL ILA/BRAEVAL

And lastly the five (5) 20cl Advance Samples are:

SMC0386 LAPHROAIG 10

SMC0390 BRAEVAL 11 SHERRY

SMC0391 CRAIGELLACHIE 11 SHERRY

SMC0389 HIGHLAND PARK 12

SMC0388 MACALLAN 12

We hope some of these will hit the right tone to be considered by you after your review.

Warmest best regards

Yours sincerely

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

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