Summer Sipping Recommendations: Bottled Sunshine!

The mouth-watering flavours in our single casks have our tongues wagging like a puppy at the best of times but all this mention of tutti-frutti ice-cream, puff candy and the likes (in this heat*) is making us simply melt….

Take it easy at a slow slow pace:

2.79 Puff candy on a tropical island
Speyside Spey
£71.10 inc free p&p
Wafts of barley sugar and puff candy come and go, as if on a warm breeze, then some light herbal scents (basil or nettles), with chocolate and almond oil. The taste at this stage is sweet and slightly cooling

18.30 Hippie dram (Can’t believe this laid-back bottle is still available!)
Speyside Spey
£77.50 inc free p&p
Luscious and syrupy: grapes and apple skins coated in golden syrup; lemon bonbons and Crabbie’s green ginger wine, salted honeycomb

64.22 Spring meadows and honey
Speyside Spey
£54.20 inc free p&p
Journey through spring meadows while tucking into white chocolate cookie dough ice cream and heather honey

125.43 Dancing dolls in flower meadows
Highland Northern
£71.20 inc free p&p
Little wooden dolls danced in the mouth, leading parades of bright, delightful flavours (chocolate, mint, lemon, ice cream, caramel, coffee)

Very limited bottling:
Of course if the weather takes a turn for the worst, you’ll need something to keep you warm, we found a very small quantity of this not-seen-in-a-while bottling…

55.21 Coastal storms and autumn leaf-fall
Highland Northern
£48.40 inc free p&p
The nose caressed us with sweet warmth (toffee, caramel, fudge, honey, syrup, vanilla, barley malt) then citrus developed (cranberry and cherry cereal bars, Ribena); finally hints of leather and brown sauce

JULY SUMMER SIPPING SAVINGS (stock running low):

SPORTY PAIR: 1.158 & 76.83 only £89.90 (save £10)
1.158 Cricketer’s Dram
76.83 Cocktails after rugby

Za Za Zoom Trio:
125.45, 36.53 & 29.101 for £135.40 (save £15)
125.45 Complex and thought-provoking
36.53 Syrupy zestiness
29.101 Tarred, feathered and set on fire

Harmonious six: All of the above PLUS 7.66 for
£283.70 (save £30)
7.66 Harmonious co-existence of flavour

Browse all bottlings  (63 single casks online)

*At the moment of sending the sun is shining brightly over The Vaults

Society Tastings & Events (66 Society tastings online)
Steak & Chips Tasting – The Vaults, Fri 15 July
Wokingham Preview Tasting – Cantley House, Fri 22 July
Falkirk Wheel Tasting – Queen Street, Thu 28 July
New Members Tasting – London, Thu 28 July
Greenock Prevew Tasting – The Tontine Hotel, Fri 29 July
Tunbridge Wells Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Fri 29 July
Stirling Preview Tasting – Golden Lion Hotel, Fri 29 July
Blind Man Bluff – The Vaults, Fri 29 July

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Edinburgh Festival Fever: Extra tickets added
We’ve just added more tickets to our Big Malt Hitters events with Jim McEwan of Bruichladdich & John Campbell, Distillery Manager at Laphroaig. And your taste-buds are in for a treat; the casks we’ve squirreled away for our three-dram Tutored Tastings are fantastic!
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Whisky For A Year: Free Tasting Glasses ends Friday!
Get whiskyed away on a tide of ultimate single cask single malt Society bottlings..

Over the course of the year we’ll send you bottlings, hand-picked by The Tasting Panel, of the highest quality and intrigue.

Sign-up before Fri 15 July and we’ll include a pair of free tasting glasses with your first bottling (77.25 Notes of floral & tobacco)

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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.