January 2013

We offer two (2) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label with two (2) ADVANCE SAMPLES – four (4) from PROVENANCE together with one (1) CLAN DENNY Grain release.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK follow:

OMC 2225 Arran 15 Year old –

Nose: Rich spices +honey -fruit& barley + a home baked doughy quality

Palate: Carries barley + macerated dark (raisiny)fruit + treacle toffee

Finish: Sweetly spiced (camphor style) plus molasses & herbs +light oak (F)

OMC 2224 Dufftown 30 Year Old

Nose: Clean, fresh & fragrant – runs to a floral style with a hint of anise

Palate: Llight & spicy – carrying a sweet herbal character + light liquorice

Finish: Now running drier to a spicy, slightly oaked style + subtle smoke (J)

Advance Sample 20 cls.

SMC 0435 Glengoyne 12 Year Old

SMC 0437 Fettercairn 10 Year Old

Tasting Notes for PROVENANCE:

PRV 0948 Miltonduff 7 Year Old Sherry

Opens with spiced oranges and cloves on the nose (mulled wine style) and develops to polished wood plus a chili & caramel mix. For its age, the palate is surprisingly rich and distinctly mouth coating with a real chocolates-with-orange-filling style. The finish is medium long, lightly oaked running drier with a leather and dark chocolate quality – now with black cherries. (J)

PRV 0959 Fettercairn 10 Year Old

Despite being so blond – opens with an attractively crushed sugar sweetness and develops to a candied fruit quality. The palate is light and fresh, still sweet, carrying soft spices and orange zest. The finish is spiced,sweetly toffee’d, remaining fresh and light. (J)

PRV 0958 Glengoyne 12 Year Old

Clean, fresh, and sweetly sugared plus juicy barley tones – all warming nicely on the nose. Palatewise it carries a distinctly chewy Maltiness before soft spices, toffee and a light oakiness gather – all being rather neatlyreplicated on the finish. (F)

PRV 0957 Caol Ila Young and Feisty

The nose opens distinctly Islay in style, balanced with a malt mash and a sweetly vanilla’d quality. This sweetness continues on the palate and develops to a sweet liquorice and soft warm tar character. Sweet smoke plus honey on distinctly burnt toast linger on the long finish. (J)

Tasting Note for CLAN DENNY Old Grain:

DEN 0089 Invergordon 46 Year Old

Lightly oaked initially on the nose – with burnt sugar – then citric fruity tones appear till vanilla custard and sweet baking ease in later. The palate is sugary sweet then vanilla from its Bourbon cask (plus some of its oak)is released – with more candied citric flavours – all running to a finish that carries a syrupy sweet set of fruit-inthat- custard flavours. (F)

We hope you have a good start of 2013, which we hope will be happy – and above all HEALTHY, for you and your family.

Yours faithfully

Fred Laing

www.douglaslaing.com