PUT SOME SPRING IN YOUR STEP WITH THESE SEVEN NEW SIPPERS! – Scotch Whisky News
April Outtrun & Victoria Partner Bar News
PUT SOME SPRING IN YOUR STEP WITH THESE SEVEN NEW SIPPERS!
The April Outturn is now available. For full tasting notes and to purchase please visit http://www.smws.ca/.
Also, if you haven’t heard yet, we are thrilled to announce that Victoria’s Little Jumbo will be our newest Partner Bar, joining Fets Whisky Kitchen in Vancouver and Brasserie Kensington in Calgary!
An ever-changing range of Society bottles will be on the bar and available by the dram. Please join us on Monday, April 14th to celebrate this exciting new partnership: http://ow.ly/von7V
In the meantime, don’t be sheepish about settling into this month’s Outturn (which includes a new distillery for the Canadian branch):
Cask No. 9.73 Frighteningly easy to drink
16 years old; refill barrel; 57%
The nose has leather books, polished tables, tobacco and mint; with water – afternoon tea with delicious sweet treats. The palate combines dark chocolate, candied cherries and dates with sherbet, lemon cakes and flapjacks – frighteningly drinkable.
Cask No. 7.93 A complex cornucopia
11 years old; refill barrel; 57.6%
The multifarious nose has lemonade, pancakes, Golden syrup, Deep Heat and forests after the rain. The palate has chocolate chip cookies with ginger cake, chili, lemon, light wood and almond fingers.
Cask No. 77.28 Tropical nights
25 years old; new charred oak 2nd fill hogshead; 54.9%
Candlewax and scented wood; tropical fruits and flowers; toasted pineapple, dark chocolate, marzipan and coffee with cardamom seeds. Waxy and mouth-filling, with juicy fruits and chocolate truffles dusted with cocoa.
Cask No. G4.4 Enjoy some R & R
34 years old; refill hogshead; 47.4%
The nose has Caramel bars, toffee popcorn and freshly ground coffee beans; the taste is vanilla ice cream and lemon tart. With water citrus sorbet and a flavour of orange blossom and homemade shortbread – enjoy a bit of relaxing and reminiscing in the garden.
Cask No. 46.21 A ballerina in stilettos
11 years old; refill sherry butt; 60.9%
NEW DISTILLERY FOR THE CANADIAN BRANCH
The nose offers buttered popcorn, puff candy, toasted almonds, pot-pourri and Christmas essential oils – maple syrup, bacon, malt and wood with water. The chewy tasty palate has lemon zest, moist gingerbread, duck in orange sauce, syrup of figs, pepper and leather.
Cask No. 3.206 Dark and mysterious
15 years old; refill sherry butt; 56.9%
The nose is dark and complex – molasses, aniseed, dark toffee, tarmac, toast, tobacco, charred mackerel and oily boats; with water marmite, soy sauce and Demerara. The palate has ash, kippers, treacle toffee, honey-glazed ham, creme brulee, fireplaces, dark chocolate and liquorice.
Cask No. 29.139 Why do fools fall in love?
18 years old; refill barrel; 59.9%
Here we go – coal tar, charcoal, cinders, roast pork belly, and sea salted chips; the taste big, hot, ashy, embers and a well-cleaned hospital floor. With water pencil shavings, roast ham and taking an Elastoplast off with your teeth.
