The February Outturn has arrived – just in time to warm you up in these chilly temps! An overview of the seven new releases is below; for more detailed tasting notes and to purchase please visit http://www.smws.ca/.

Cask No. 1.172 Sophisticated, delicate and feminine

19 years old; refill hogshead; 55.7%

The sweet fresh nose has elderflower, white jelly babies, heather soap, pot-pourri and scented candles – complicated by tobacco, marmalade and aromatic duck.The palate is sweet (toffee, honey, poached pears) but with spicy fruit (apple chutney), perfumed sandalwood and flowers.

Cask No. 2.83 Intense explosion of taste

19 years old; refill hogshead; 55.2%

The nose is interesting and full – summer fuits, maple syrup, Turkish Delight, tobacco and old books; black-jacks and foamy shrimps with water. On the palate, tuttu-fruitti bubble gum, apple sours, blackcurrant and lavendar honey detonate with gingerbread, cinnamon and treacle scones.

Cask No. 26.71 The great outdoors

25 years old; refill sherry butt; 57.3%

The fresh nose has chalk, shellfish and fruit (starfruit, bananas, nectarines) with sea breeze and menthol, becoming soapy and savoury with water. A salty and waxy taste with citronella, seaweed and bacon; water softens with marshmallows and lemongrass.

G8.2 Spun sugar and spooned honey – mmm!

23 years old; refill hogshead; 62.4%

The comforting and luxurious nose suggests toffee, butterscotch, creme caramel and vanilla ice-cream – also hay, red berries and roast beef – spicier with water. The palate is mellifluously mouth-coating, with strawberry sauce, hot fudge, rum and raisin, new wood and spooned honey.

3.197 Body shop and bath salts

14 years old; refill sherry butt; 55.6%

Fresh and mineralic – bath salts, limestone, an up-market spa – with some light toffee; laundered towels and a clean smokiness with water. The texture is smooth, the taste sweet then smoky, with flowering currants in the aftertaste.

93.54 Manly, robust and reassuringly honest

10 years old; refill barrel; 58.2%

The nose has coal, hessian, honey, coconut, seaweed, garages and minty sweetness; peppery herbs, Manzanilla and lemon with water. The palate is manly, robust and reassuringly honest – ash, pepper, bitter chocolate, orange rind and woollen mitts.

127.32 A manly dram

10 years old; refill barrel; 65.2%

Big nose – medicinal, tarry, smoky, creosote, pine cones, harbours, caramelized parsnips, burnt toast, seared scallops, vanilla, HP sauce on bacon rolls, coffee, cinnamon, moth balls. Bigger taste – tiger balm, tar, smoke, ash, embers, charred mackerel, toffee sauce, dark chocolate gingers.

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