Our March Outturn is live! The Society’s Whisky Team are sparing no efforts to uncover new and interesting casks for members to discover and enjoy, and this month is no exception…

CARAMEL CRÈME BRÛLÉE

CASK NO. 59.82

CASK:  1st fill ex-bourbon hogshead

AGE:  13 years

AN UNEXPECTED FEAST

CASK NO. 93.211

CASK:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  10 years

A BYGONE ERA

CASK NO. G8.26

CASK:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  32 years

THRILL SEEKERS WANTED

CASK NO. 12.76

CASK:  2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  12 years

BAKE-OFF

DISTILLERY 68 RARE RELEASE

CASKS:  1st fill & refill oloroso & bourbon hogsheads

AGE:  14 years

FAUX FOIE GRAS

CASK NO. 53.477

CASK:  1st fill oloroso hogshead

AGE:  13 years

CINNAMON SAUNA SMOKE

CASK NO. RW6.3

CASK:  New oak charred barrel

AGE:  5 years

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a Special Bundle from Killowen Distillery

St Patrick’s day is near and Killowen have composed the perfect bundle box for the occasion with a generous spring saving.

This includes our

– Rum & Raisin Single Malt
– Gloria Coffee Liqueur
– Baseball Cap

All for £85
Saving £16 

Purchase today and secure your package for St Patrick’s day celebrations.

Sláinte

The Killowen Distillery Team

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We encourage you to explore the scents and sensory experience of The Hearach single malt from a personal point of view but to help things along, here’s our Head Blender’s official tasting notes…|

“ I get a gentle peat smoke on the first sip which reminds me of island home fires burning when I was growing up. It comes along with a toasted maltiness. I can also taste homemade apple sauce and smell machair flowers, particularly white clover which springs up on our west coast every summer. Mixed spices appear, and an old-fashioned sweetness from things like candied ginger, vanilla, and honeycomb. Finally, there’s a long, clotted-cream note, mixed with a lasting sense of new leather. ” 

Shona Macleod, Carragreich, Isle of Harris.|

PEAT SMOKE – APPLE SAUCE – TOASTED MALT – WILDFLOWERS – SPICE – CANDIED SWEETS – CLOTTED CREAM

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THE REVIEW

Meikle Toir 5YO Turbo

THROW ALL OF YOUR OCTOMORE AWAY!

Well, this was a long time coming! I’ve finally got my hands on a bottle (albeit not mine) of Meikle Toir The Turbo!

A five year old single malt with incredible attention to the spirit. Taking a cut within the hearts/middle cut of the distillate coming form the still, Billy Walker has managed to produce this super direct, turbocharged, fuzzy style of peated Speyside that focuses on all of the right things in the best way possible.

Matured in virgin American casks and refill Oloroso hogsheads, coming off the stills at 70ppm – this bottle delivers culinary, BBQ style peat and some of very decadent pecan, chocolate and cinnamon notes that I’ve ever had on a bottle of whisky before. Even as someone who isn’t a fan of cinnamon, it works on this in ways that I wouldn’t have believed before. There is also a wealth of other cooking spices, toffee, caramel sweet oak, a slight touch of youthful spirit and other tasty, candied things.

I’ve given this a big score, the biggest score I’ve given to a whisky in quite a while without actually owning it. You best believe that this is the only bottle on my 2025 list at this point. It’s time to buy less but better as the year pulls on.

An absolutely outstanding bottle of whisky that deserves all of the attention that it has received.

Ardnamurchan Madeira Cask Release 2025 is the second release of Madeira matured spirit, after a hugely successful launch of the first release in late 2022. This time they are utilising peated and unpeated whiskies. Roughly 19,500 bottles have been bottled, with a minimum age of 6 Years Old and a bottling strength of 52.0% ABV. We think this will mark the perfect winter/spring dram, with a luscious, enveloping texture, oodles of red fruits, a herbaceous backbone, and a lingering, drying finish.

£65.00

Cask Type: Bourbon with Madeira Cask Finish

Limited: Worldwide 19,598 Bottles

Peated | Limited Edition | Non Chill-filtered | Natural Colour

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Cocoa powder, stewed plums, sugared almonds, bread and butter pudding, nutmeg, sandalwood, bracken, fruit scone, red currants.

Palate: Cinnamon sweets, cedar bark, salted trail mix with chocolate chips, rosemary stalks, toffee apple, pine needles, strawberries with black pepper.

Finish: Medium weight, dusty, long and slightly drying finish.

52% ABV

70cl

Our Exclusive Tamdhu, Celebrating The Green Welly Stop’s 60th Anniversary

To celebrate our 60th anniversary at The Green Welly Stop, we are proud to present this exclusive, single cask release. Distilled on the rare date of February 29th, 2012, and bottled in December 2024, this exceptional whisky has been matured in a first-fill European oak Oloroso sherry hogshead.

Tamdhu owners Ian Macleod purchased Tamdhu in 2011, and officially started distilling in 2013, with a few distillations in between that time, this single cask is a 2012 Vintage, making it one of the first Single Cask releases with spirit produced by Ian Macleod. With only 325 bottles in existence, this is a truly special release.

Natural colour and non chill filtered

One of only 325 bottles produced

Distilled 29th February 2012

Bottled December 2024

£235.00

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Nose Creamy, crisp red apples, gingerbread, vanilla, sultanas, clementine, camomile, wisp of smoke.

Palate Balanced, sweet, mouth coating, bright fruits, blueberry muffin, cinnamon, clotted cream, granola, oloroso.

Finish Long finish, sweet oak, lasting subtle smoke.

We bring you the best whiskies in the world – whether they’re from Scotland or somewhere further afield. If our Tasting Panel love it, they’ll give it a flavour profile, a name and a Tasting Note. Then it’s up to us to share it with you. And that’s the beauty of our global club.

In this month’s Outturn we released two whiskies from Taiwan. Filled on the same day, and matured in the same type of cask, they are exactly the same age but with one big difference: their flavour profile.

Light & Delicate and Peated are two very different profiles and if you’ve watched this month’s Outturn podcast, you’ll know these are as big a contrast as it gets. With one spirit peated and the other unpeated these two whiskies offer a unique opportunity to have your own side-by-side flavour adventure.

Compare and contrast them for yourself or check them out in a Members’ Room.

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We are delighted to share that the Glengoyne 25 Year Old has been crowned Best Scotch 2025 by the prestigious Whiskey Wash Awards. This accolade highlights what we have always cherished about this extraordinary dram – its unparalleled craftsmanship and exquisite character.

From over 120 different scotch whiskies reviewed, only 12 earned the coveted Double Gold designation. Yet, it was Glengoyne 25 Year Old, matured for a quarter of a century in hand-selected sherry casks, that emerged as the Best Scotch.

“Scotch whisky doesn’t get any better than this” said industry expert Nino Kilgore-Marchetti. This luxurious dram reveals notes of dried figs, rich chocolate, and butterscotch, with a finish as decadent as its heritage.

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience this award-winning expression—a true celebration of time, tradition, and unmatched craftsmanship.

Slàinte Mhath,

The Glengoyne Team

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Decadent Drams Loch Lomond 19 years old

This latest Decadent Drams release is a barrel of heavily peated 19 year old Loch Lomond, distilled in 2005 and bottled at natural cask strength. We loved the emphatically oily and peaty character of this cask, at times it recalled some older style Islay whiskies with these big tarry and peppery peat notes, only with a more assertive and modern spicy note from the cask. As such, we decided to bottle it without any tinkering or reduction. Suitable for swigging on the low road, or tippling on the high road – but you’ll have to buy one if you want to be in Scotland afore me.

£145.00 incVAT

While the discerning noses on our Tasting Panel approve all our whiskies before they’re bottled, it’s our Whisky Team that select samples for the Panel to try. With so many casks, how do you choose your next bottle? The Whisky Team’s Julien Willems, Whisky Quality Manager is here with Panel favourites from this month’s last drops. All of these bottles are very low in stock – so get them while they’re still here!

ALL LAST DROPS

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

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