1st February 2010

Dear Client,

To kick off 2010, we are offering seven (7) new OLD MALT CASK releases, and one (1) new OLD & RARE. There are also twelve (12) new 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLES on offer this month, hoping this wide selection will be attractive to you.

The OLD MALT CASK Tasting Notes follow:

OMC 1803 “Tactical” (from Skye) 10 Year Old
Nose: Sweetly peated/gristy – maritime/salty + smoke + a touch of iodine
Palate: Big on barley, phenols, smoke and warming spices.
Finish: More spices – now with mocha, even some molasses (F)

OMC 1814 Glengoyne 13 Year Old
Nose: Opens fresh & fruity then cream & sweet pineapple develop
Palate: Initially sweet & spicy – carries to marzipan & white chocolate
Finish: Attractively round, still fresh and sweet + herbal style (J)

OMC 1820 Highland Park 13 Year Old
Nose: Fresh, clean and barley sugared + later spice and honey.
Palate: Mouthcoatingly barley rich (for a youngster) + toffee + light smoke.
Finish: Dryly spiced, vanilla’d with more smoke (+ cloves?) (F)

OMC 1805 Rosebank 19 Year Old
Nose: Fresh and clean – with a light honey and herbal hint.
Palate: Lightly spiced running to sugar, syrup and honey.
Finish: Now drier, herbal and warmingly spiced. (F)

OMC 1806 Braes of Glenlivet 20 Year Old
Nose: Fresh, vanilla’ed + peaches + barley sugar + homebake quality
Palate: Warming. Runs to macerated fruit (pears) + sweet spices (ginger)
Finish: Medium long – still sweet. Barley sugar returns and lingers on. (J)

OMC 1819 Caol Ila 30 Year Old
Nose: Harbourlike, saline and dry a with hot beach sand smell.
Palate: Dessicatingly dry, leathery, nutty and very phenolic
Finish: Carries iodine, peat, bonfire smoke and ashes. (F)

OMC 1821 Tomintoul 36 Year Old
Nose: Still fresh and clean, haylike + distinctly gristed barley.
Palate: Initially subtly light, it warms to spices/honey/grist/light oak.
Finish: Attractively spiced/honeyed/warming – tailing drier. (F)

The OLD & RARE Tasting Note follows:

OAR 0094 Tamdhu 20 Year Old Sherry Matured
Richly perfumed, spiced, with old furniture polish, burnt orange, cloves and light wood smoke on the nose – move onto an initially dry palate (from its Sherry heritage) which opens over the next few seconds to a spiced and
macerated (Rummy?) fruit – almost Gluhwein style. The finish is just so big, rich, spiced, fruited and darkly (Muscovado) sugared in style! (F)

The 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLES offerings are:

SMC 0349 Glen Ord 11 Year Old
SMC 0348 Glentauchers 9 Year Old Sherry Finished
SMC 0352 Ardmore 12 Year Old
SMC 0353 Balmenach 11 Year Old
SMC 0351 Benriach 11 Year Old
SMC 0360 Glengoyne 13 Year Old
SMC 0358 Glenrothes 11 Year Old
SMC 0354 Highland Park 11 Year Old
SMC 0350 Linkwood 12 Year Old – Bourbon Cask
SMC 0355 Macallan 12 Year Old
SMC 0356 Port Ellen 26 Year Old Sherry Matured
SMC 0359 Scapa 16 Year Old

We hope you find these new bottlings as attractive as we have found tasting them.

All best wishes for 2010.

Yours faithfully
Fred Laing

Please visit Douglas Laing & Company at http://www.douglaslaingwhisky.com/