This month we have five new (5) bottlings in the OMC range, one (1) in OLD & RARE, plus two (2) DOUBLE BARREL releases together with one (1) CLAN DENNY Grain.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK

OMC2237 BUNNAHABHAIN SHERRY 11 YEAR

Nose: Round & full, sweet & fruity – oaked & gristy

Palate: Chewy and mouthcoating – oily – Barley’d + spiced.

Finish: Warms deeply with crushed sugars, smoke & vanilla. (F)

OMC1818 STRATHMILL 17 YEARS

Nose: Spicy with vanilla tablet + dry herbs, sweet tobacco + cocoa butter

Palate: Round, full flavoured & spicy, still sweet + a “brulée” caramel style

Finish: Medium long, still spicy & sweet with fruit bitters lingering (J)

OMC2223 LONGMORN 21 YEARS

Nose: Spiced – rather meaty – peppery – nicely gristed

Palate: Citric

Finish: More sherbet & sugar + a wee late espresso? (F)

OMC2238 LITTLEMILL 21 YEARS

Nose: Clean & gristy – lightly spiced + autumnal fruit & barley.

Palate: Buttery – with tones of cedar, vanilla & honey on toast.

Finish: Smooth – aromatic & sweet with sugar, jam & Malty tones. (F)

OMC2239 MORTLACH 21 YEARS

Nose: Like a damp dunnage warehouse + sweet vanilla & spice.

Palate: Toffee – carrying more vanilla + cedar wood & spicy, sweet tobacco.

Finish: Round & mellow – still sweet – running to chocolate & cinnamon (J)

OLD & RARE Tasting Notes:

OAR0183 ST MAGDALENE 30 YEARS

Opens clean & fresh on the nose with caramelised fruit and vanilla, then develops to a sweet tobacco character. The palate is warmingly spiced – carrying a macerated fruit character plus honey and barley. The finish is long with a camphor coughdrops – Fisherman’s Friends style – plus more of that sweet tobacco style. (J)

DOUBLE BARREL Tasting Notes:

DBS0040 TALISKER/CRAIGELLACHIE 2nd RELEASE

N: opens surprisingly fresh, with burnt orange peel, spicy biscuits (also slightly burnt)

T: fresh & grassy at first – before a sweetly spiced smoke appears

F: an apparent wood quality linger, burnt pine with a sweet ashy character

DBS0042 CAOL ILA/BRAEVAL 4th RELEASE

N: opens with ashes and smoke from the CAOL ILA softened with a rich spicy character from the BRAEVAL

T: initially sweet with dried fruit & toffee from the BRAEVAL, carries to peat, tar and liquorice from the CAOL ILA

F: long, BRAEVAL’s spicy character returns while the CAOL ILA lingers with bonfire ashes and a chewy tar quality

Tasting Notes for CLAN DENNY Grain:

DEN0094 DUMBARTON 48 YEARS

On the nose – expect a rich, spicy quality which develops to sweet pipe tobacco. The palate is sweet and richly spiced with a dark chocolate and marinated black cherry character. All culminating in a (surprisingly) long finish that runs to sweet

mocha – almost liqueur style. (J)

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Fred H Laing

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