Don’t let your favourite flavours slip away this September Outturn. With our birthday whiskies taking flight fast, click over to our online shop now to catch hold of your bottles. If you’re looking for some celebratory recommendations, we’ve selected five memorable drams fit to mark any occasion.

NEW OUTTURN

Join us on 24 September as we unite members from all around the world, in our first ever global Virtual Tasting, streamed live from our home at The Vaults.

Simply order an exclusive Discovery Pack, which includes five specially-selected whiskies, and join us on www. facebook.com/thesmwsuk at 7pm (UK time) September 24th, 2018, where master brand ambassador John McCheyne will be hosting this
once-in-a-lifetime tasting.

BUY NOW

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ

Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

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Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar 5th edition 

It makes the perfect gift for the scotch lover in your life that has everything (or a gift for yourself). The only way we can guarantee you a calendar is through our pre-order program.  Available online only www.spirits.jwebb.net, we are offering a special price of $374.95 (regular price $399.95) until November 12.

The scotch whisky Advent Calendar was born in 2014 when Jonathan Bray travelled to Scotland and sourced 25 entirely unique whiskies that would take whoever tasted them on a journey of

discovery through all the Scottish whisky regions. This tradition remains today, with all whisky’s being hand selected and carefully curated for the ultimate whisky experience in one box.

Included in the calendar

 25 x 50ml bottles of Single Cask and limited Edition Scotch Whiskies (all independently bottled)

• 5th edition unique whisky tasting glass• Keepsake tasting note booklet

  • Feature distillery postcard

  • Collector’s lapel pin

Follow the journey with Jonathans tasting notes at http://www.singlemalting.com and the magnificent bastards of whisky tribe on youtube

The Whisky Barrel releases their latest exclusive bottling, an Orcadian Blended Malt Scotch Whisky. 

Specialist online whisky shop, TheWhiskyBarrel.com, is proud to release a very limited Orcadian Blended Malt Scotch Whisky from the parish of St Ola.

The Orkney Islands, located off the north coast of Scotland, are full of mystery and intrigue. The island was in many ways shaped by the Vikings who settled in Orkney over one thousand years ago. There are age-old tales of Viking settlers, the striking St Magnus Cathedral (or ‘Light of the North’) and even Pictish ruins.

As well as the striking ‘Light of the North’, St Ola is home to both Highland Park and Scapa Whisky Distilleries. In other words, St Ola is the home of Orcadian whisky.

TheWhiskyBarrel.com could not possibly pass up the chance to take the very first St Ola Scotch Whisky. This blended malt might only be eight years old but it is full of flavour and certainly a credit to Orkney.

With an ABV of 66.2%.  There are 82 numbered bottles available so there will be a limit of two bottles per customer.

Available exclusively from The Whisky Barrel, shipping to customers Worldwide including the United States of America, Canada and Japan. 

St Ola® Orcadian Blended Malt 8Year Old Exclusive |2010| TheWhiskyBarrel.com| 66.2%

Tasting notes 

Colour: Light golden straw.

Nose: A lovely sweet nose, accompanied by notes of Crème brûlée and heather honey. 

Palate: There are traces of light peat smoke, along with traditional leather and burnt orange. 

Finish: Long and oily. 

Price: £58.00 GBP / $62.60 USD (+ P&P) 

The Whisky Barrel E: info@thewhiskybarrel.com Visit www.thewhiskybarrel.com T: +44 (0)845 2248 156

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Cladach – Diageo Special Releases 2018 #10

It’s time to reveal the final bottle of the Diageo Special Releases 2018 – Cladach.

What is Cladach

For the second year in a row, Diageo have dropped a secret bottle into the line-up, only revealing it on the day of the launch party. It’s a blended malt whisky.

While last year’s Collectivum XXVIII was a blend from all of Diageo’s operating malt whisky distilleries, Cladach is a bit more selective. The name means ‘coastline’ in gaelic and it was created using whisky from Diageo’s coastal distilleries: Inchgower, Clynelish, Talisker, Oban, Caol Ila and Lagavulin.

Like Collectivum, Cladach was created by Keith Law, a veteran of Diageo’s blending team. It marks a milestone for Keith, as it was his final project before retirement. Fortunately, it’s a fitting swansong.

Tasting Notes

Nose: Pink shrimp sweets and leather to start, with smoke slowly building behind. Fresh sea air and crashing waves sit alongside earthy peat and maritime-tinged smoke. Meaty barbecue notes develop.

Palate: Peat leads but is quickly pushed to the back. The whisky is built around a sweet centre of boiled sweets and apple sauce, surrounded by salt and freshly-ground black pepper. A tingle of sherbet leads to zesty waxed lemons and sweet orange.

Finish: Sweet peat and grass with a touch of char.

Comment: An incredibly well-balanced dram, pulling out the distinctively coastal characteristics of the component whiskies without allowing smoke to swamp the more delicate flavours. However, Talisker and Clynelish are definitely doing the heavy lifting.

Diageo Special Releases 2018

With Cladach revealed, we now know the full line-up of 2018’s Diageo Special Releases:

They should be arriving any day now and will be available for preorder shortly. In the meantime you can sign up to receive an email when they go live on each bottle’s page:

Talisker 8 Years Old
The Singleton of Glen Ord 14 Years Old
Pittyvaich 28 Years Old
Carsebridge 48 Years Old
Caol Ila 35 Years Old
Oban 21 Years Old
Inchgower 27 Years Old
Caol Ila 15 Years Old Unpeated
Lagavulin 12 Years Old
Cladach

When they’re available for preorder, you’ll be able to find them all on our Diageo Special Release 2018 page.

Originally published on The Whisky Exchange Blog – Cladach – Diageo Special Releases 2018 #10

September marks the Society’s 35th birthday so we’ll have some special releases sprinkled into the Outturns over the next few months to round out a great year!  Raise a glass for some great drams! 

CASK NO. 73.98  LAYERS OF HARMONY

17 years old; 1st fill Oloroso hogshead; 54.1%; Sweet, fruity & mellow

A nuance of sherry gives the nose crème brûlée and apricot Danish, flooding the mouth with honey and lebkuchen. Previously in an ex-bourbon hogshead.

CASK NO. 35.199  SPICY CHERRY CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

8 years old; 1st fill barrel; 59.5%; Sweet & spicy

Sweet citric aromas, with a spicy sweetness on the palate when neat. Water moved us into a carpenter’s workshop eating buttermilk bran rusks.

CASK NO. 7.184  HANDBAGS AND HOOKAHS

12 years old; 1st fill barrel; 61%; Spicy & dry

The nose is all lady’s handbags and shisha pipes. The palate gives tropical fruit salad; with leather and wood spices on the finish.

CASK NO. G4.16  MELLIFLUOUS CONTENTMENT

35 years old; 2nd fill barrique; 49.8%; Juicy, oak & vanilla

The nose is a picnic of desserts in a rose garden. The mellow, mellifluous palate has corn candies, banana toffee, gentle spice and oak. Previously in an ex-bourbon hogshead.

CASK NO. 107.10  A FORTRESS OF DARKNESS

8 years old; refill Oloroso butt; 65.4%; Deep, rich & dried fruits

The heavy portcullis opened to reveal roasted boar and venison broth with rich and spicy fruitcake, dark chocolate and Pedro Ximenez sherry.

CASK NO. 4.233  ASIAN-STYLE BARBECUE

11 years old; refill hogshead; 64.2%; Lightly peated

First aid kit on a tractor, new bicycle inner tube, a bog-wood sculpture, but eventually we all enjoyed Char Siu pork and Thai-spiced tuna.

CASK NO. 10.129  A ROUND TRIP JOURNEY

9 years old; refill barrel; 60.1%; Peated

Spiced potato wedges and grilled Espeto sardines ‘Islay style’ made this an experience neat, and water took us right back to where we started.

SMWS Canada

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada
104-1240 Kensington Road NW, Suite 160
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 3P7
Email – curious@smws.ca

Introducing The Story of The Spaniard: 
Our new malt whisky with its core components aged in Spanish wine casks

The first bottling is now available in Europe and will soon be available in the US.  Get in touch with us if you’re looking for a bottle and the team would be happy to point you in the right direction.

John Glaser, 

Whiskymaker

The Full Story

Flaming Heart is back! Our much-loved limited edition returns for its sixth release, available now in Europe and coming soon in the US.

Find Out More

Meet Rosey Mitchell

This summer, we welcomed six top bartenders from around the world to our blending room in London for the global final of our first-ever bartender competition, The Circle.

The three-day final was designed to encourage the bartenders to cross boundaries with a series of blending, cocktail and design challenges.

Our winner – Rosey of Three Sheets bar in London – is now working with us on a limited edition blend which we’ll release in 2019.  We’ll share the behind-the-scenes story of the collaboration in our emails over the coming months.

Highland Park Single Cask Exclusive

St. Ola 8 Year Old 2010 Exclusive

Orcadian vatted malt matured in single cask refill sherry hogshead. Bottled August 2018 at 66.6% exclusive to The Whisky Barrel. Just 82 numbered bottles featuring a 19th century drawing of Highland Park distillery, Kirkwall. Creme brulee, peat smoke, leather, burnt orange, heather honey with a long oily finish.

Buy – £58.00

Raise a glass for the Society’s 35th anniversary with our special celebratory bottlings. September Outturn brings a colourful cask collection – 22 birthday bottlings including five hand-picked commemorative whiskies and two single cask spirits. We also have our 35th anniversary Discovery Pack for our first ever virtual tasting, being broadcast live from The Vaults on Monday, 24 September.

NEW OUTTURN        35TH CELEBRATIONS

Join us on 24 September as we unite members from all around the world, in our first ever global Virtual Tasting, streamed live from our home at The Vaults. Simply order an exclusive Discovery Pack, which includes five specially-selected whiskies, and join us on www. facebook.com/thesmwsuk at 7pm (UK time), where master brand ambassador John McCheyne will be hosting this once-in-a-lifetime tasting.

BUY NOW

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ

Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

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New Society Bottle – Available Monday 10th September

We are delighted to announce that the next Springbank Society Exclusive Bottling will be available from 9am (Campbeltown Time) this coming Monday.

This bottling was chosen by Society members at the Campbeltown Malts Festival who voted for their favourite cask sample during the Society tasting. These members also inspired the official tasting notes with their descriptions of the dram during the tasting.

Springbank 15yo 56.2% 

Cask type;    Fresh Port Hogsheads

Distilled;        May 2003

Bottled;         September 2018

Strength;       56.2%

Outturn;        1,020 bottles

Price;            £65.00 per bottle

Tasting Notes

Nose: Sweet and creamy; milk chocolate and mandarins closely followed by cinnamon and Scottish tablet.

Taste: Strawberries, plum jam; fruit cake. Cloves and a soft pepperiness emerge with rhubarb crumble and brambles.

Finish: The classic salty and misty coastal notes of Springbank sweep through the mouth. The finish is balanced and rounded with dry pepper, orange chocolates, ripe bananas and coconut shavings.

Available to order from Monday 10th September 2018 –  No pre-orders will be taken.  Please make sure you are familiar with the contents of this email before ordering.

2 bottles per member maximum (bottles shall be allocated on a first come, first serve basis)

Order by email – society@springbank.scot

Purchasing and delivery/collection

The bottles are available to purchase for £65.00 each.  This release is (as usual for Society releases) first come, first serve and a maximum of 2 bottles are available for each member.

When you place your order, please supply the following information;

• If you would like to collect it from one of our Cadenhead shops

• If you are based in Canada

• If you have any other delivery preferences (not covered by the points above) then it may be helpful if you include them in your email order.

Once you place your order you will receive an email back letting you know that your order has been received. This may take several days. Please do not be alarmed if you do not hear back immediately.

Once we have responded to all the initial orders, we will get back in touch with everyone who has successfully ordered a bottle (or two) to discuss payment and delivery/collection.
If you wish for your Society bottle to be sent to a Cadenhead shop for collection (Edinburgh, London, Baden, Cologne, Odense, Berlin and Vienna) payment is required before your order is despatched to the shop.  The shops are not obligated to send bottles on to another address within their country although if this arrangement has been agreed upon by a shop then there will be a delivery charge for this.

We will contact you when your bottle is available to pick up from your preferred Cadenhead shop. There is no delivery charge for sending your bottle to a Cadenhead shop.

As some of you will have noticed in bold above, we are able to send bottles to the 2 newest Cadenhead shops located in Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria.

The addresses and contact details of these shops are below.

Berlin  

Boxhagener Strasse 33

10245 Berlin

Germany

Tel: +49 30 2260 0610

E-mail: info@cadenheads-whisky-shop-berlin.de

Website: www.cadenheads-whisky-shop-berlin.de

Vienna  

Döblinger Hauptstraße 32

1190 Vienna

Austria

Tel: +43 677 622 476 40

E-mail: office@cadenhead-vienna.at

Website: www.cadenhead-vienna.at

Similarly, if you wish to pick your bottle(s) up from the Campbeltown shop then payment is required once you have been notified that your order has been reserved for you.

Society Merchandise

If you have recently ordered Society merchandise and would like this to be delivered to you with your bottle order then please state this before confirming payment as this will likely affect shipping costs and may delay shipment of your bottle.  However, if your bottles and merchandise are being sent to a Cadenhead shop for collection then shipping will remain free of charge.

To repeat, we will only process orders from 9am on Monday 10th September. No pre-orders will be taken.

Please make sure you are familiar with the contents of this email before ordering.

Send your orders to – society@springbank.scot

Slainte

The Springbank Society

Springbank Team

Springbank Distillers Ltd

To join the Society please contact them at society@springbank.scot

New & Rare

The Macallan Rare Cask has been a favourite among whisky aficionados since its introduction as part of the 1824 series. While the 1824 series has come to an end, Rare Cask is taking on a new lease of life as an annual series of batched releases and the very first batch is now available to pre-order at The Whisky Shop.

International shipping available

The Macallan Rare Cask Batch No.1 2018 Release

The first edition in the new series of batched releases of The Macallan Rare Cask, this Speyside single malt is crafted from some of the rarest stocks in The Macallan Estate.

Showcasing the depth and complexity of The Macallan, less than 1% of the stock maturing in The Macallan Estate is deemed worthy to be used in the creation of Rare Cask Batch No.1. This 2018 release is presented at 43% abv in a sculpted, heavy glass decanter.

£249 Pre-Order Now
Orders will be dispatched w/c 10th September