1st March 2010

Dear Customer,

This month we are offering three (3) new OLD MALT CASK releases, two (2) new PREMIER BARRELS as well as two (2) CLAN DENNY Grains. There is also one (1) new 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLE on offer this month.

The OLD MALT CASK Tasting Notes follow:

OMC 1811 Clynelish 14 Year Old

Nose: Sweet smoke, burnt caramel + smoked ham & ashes
Palate: Opens sweetly & spiced + liquorice + light smoke character
Finish: Complex with wood & smoke developing to ashes (J)

OMC 1798 Glendronach 14 Year Old for the Passchendaele Pipe Band

Nose: Fresh and gristy sweet – running to vanilla + butter cream
Palate: Round & smooth with sweet, cocoa butter + ripe banana
Finish: Replicates the nose and palate – still fresh and sweet (J)

OMC 1804 Laphroaig 20 Year Old Sherry

Nose: Powerfully peated with distinct dark fruit – definitely tarred.
Palate: Nutty, mouthcoatingly round/sweetly fruited and phenolic.
Finish: Subtly Islay in style, cindery with a long iodine character. (F)

The 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLES offering is:

SMC 0357 Glen Grant 12 Year Old

The PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes follow:

PBR 0067 Braeval 10 Year Old Sherry

A blue chip balm! A “bang-on” Braeval! A masterful miscellany of majesterial and meritorious malt mash with coffee connotations – choc-a-bloc with capricious citrus and succulently sensuous, scintillatingly stylish and sympathetically satiating Sherry. (F)

PBR 0069 Royal Lochnagar 11 Year Old

A radiantly rousing rapprochement of robust Royalty – a definitive distillate – devoid (de facto) of deficiency with its fruit, spice, barley sugar and Malt all made manifest multifariously, and munificently – nay, magnificently ! (F)

The CLAN DENNY GRAIN Tasting Notes follows:

DEN 0030 Strathclyde 40 Year Old

The nose opens with vanilla tablet and develops to a sweet and spicy character with macerated raisins, reminiscent of a dessert wine. The palate remains sweet & spicy and carries to a creamy hazelnut praline quality with a chocolate cover. The finish is not so long but interestingly dry with nuts and spices. (J)

DEN 0031 Garnheath 40 Year Old

The nose opens with coconut and chocolate and develops to macaroon and vanilla. The coconut returns on the palate and carries to a spicy, ripe banana style. The finish is short, sweet, still spicy and runs to a cedar wood
character. (J)

Beyond those, BIG PEAT – with his batch #7 available midmonth – remains at your disposal (and now with shelf talkers available), similarly so with our DOUBLE BARREL bottlings.

The CLAN DENNY Grains are being restocked and the Glendronach bottling with all proceeds targeted to the Passchendaele Pipe Band has already struck an emotive chord and commercial interest with many of our customers. We hope to be of our normal service to you, assuring you of our best and personal attention.

Best wishes
Fred Laing

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