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Our first Outturn of the new year is now available online…get ready to rock the senses as we kick off our 40th birthday celebrations with a BANG. Enjoy endless epiphanies in our fearless pursuit of flavour, starting with this sweet little selection of new and outstanding bottlings.

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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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Lochlea was a cattle farm when we originally acquired it in 2006. Extending some 222 acres. Barley had historically been grown on the farm land, largely as livestock feed, so in 2015 they embarked on an experiment, growing 50 acres of malting barley. Construction got underway in 2017, converting the former piggery, byre and midden in the heart of the farm steading into the distillery, and repurposing the cattle sheds into bonded warehouses. They secured their licences in 2018, and the distillery was commissioned in August 2018.

Since then, they have been growing their barley, and the distillery team have been skillfully and patiently making spirit. The land at Lochlea is important, and not just to the distinctive taste of their whisky.

David Ferguson will be coming down in Milroy’s of Soho to lt us taste the delicious editions below:

Lochlea Our Barley

Lochlea Sowing Edition

Lochlea Harvest Edition

Lochlea Fallow Edition

Lochlea Ploughing Edition (Ploughing Edition launches on 25th January)

You will have the opportunity to purchase a bottle in store with 10% discount only for this particular evening.

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The end of the 139th auction is fast approaching its close on Sunday evening so we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight a few excellent lots in this month which you might have missed.

Springbank 25 Year Old Old Style

From one of the undisputed heavyweights of the whisky world this Springbank 25 Year Old Old Style hails from the bygone days of the 1990’s, back when Springbanks didn’t cost an arm and a leg.  Times have changed though and now older bottlings from the Campbeltown distillery are going up exponentially in value on the secondary market.  This trend shows no signs of stopping any time soon so there is no better time than the present to snap up this vintage malt from one of the most coveted distilleries around.

Old Weller 7 Year Old Original 107 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon 75cl

This Old Weller 7 Year Old is the original and classic wheated bourbon.  First produced by the Stitzel-Weller distillery, whose legacy is now carried on by the Sazerac Company whose Buffalo Trace Distillery reputedly use the same recipe which originally made it famous.  The bottle features the famous ‘gold vein’ design introduced in the 1960’s, though this bottling is most likely from the 1980’s given its stated volume of 75cl after the United States adopted the standard metric bottling size in 1979.  Smooth and sweet this a high quality expression of great renown which would improve any bourbon collection.

With a slightly smaller auction this month competition is high, so now is the time to get your bids in.  Happy bidding everyone and best of luck to you all in the auction.

Scotch Whisky Auctions · Unit C · 139 Lancefield Street · Glasgow, Lanarkshire G3 8HZ · United Kingdom

Tormore 26 Year Old Connoisseurs Choice

1996 vintage single cask bottled by G&M for the Connoisseurs Choice series.

Expect baked apples, rich dark chocolate, black pepper and mixed nuts. 576 bottles… these vintage Tormore casks don’t hang around for long!

Buy – Tormore 26 Years – £230 / $233* / €263*

Tormore 26 Year Old 1994 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single first fill sherry butt #8354 bottled January 2021 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Connoisseurs Choice series. 576 bottles. Stewed fruit and baked apple aromas accompany vanilla. Rich dark chocolate and aniseed give way to black pepper. A full finish of lingering mixed nuts.

Tormore Distillery was established in 1958 in the Speyside whisky region to supply malt whisky to blending houses. It was designed by Sir Albert Richardson, President of the Royal Academy and is set in stunning landscaped gardens. Resplendent with green-coppered roofs, decorative pagoda roofs, a clock tower and clock which still chimes Scottish tunes, a rectangular curling pond, topiary and houses for the staff. Tormore Distillery is now operating with eight stills in its tall still house and Tormore malt whisky is still mostly flowing into scotch blends. Whilst official bottling are sparse it features amongst the ranges of a number of independent bottlers including Signatory Vintage and Connoisseurs Choice.

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HIGHLAND PARK 25 YEAR OLD

A complex and spicy Orkney single malt created from 12 specially selected casks, with notes of Seville oranges, oak-smoke coconut and heathery peat smoke. The 2022 release of Highland Park 25 Year Old was created from just 12 casks – five first-fill European oak sherry hogsheads, two first-fill American oak sherry casks and five virgin American oak hogsheads – carefully selected and married together by Highland Park’s master whisky maker Gordon Motion. Matured on Orkney for quarter of a century, the nose brings aromas of sweet coconut, honeyed violets and undercurrents of warm oaky spice. The palate offers notes of exotic lychee, sun-ripened Seville oranges, oak-smoke coconut and heathery peat smoke, followed by aniseed, fresh rosemary and lingering peat smoke that build in the finish.

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IT’S THE SOCIETY’S 40TH BIRTHDAY
AND WE HAVE SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE

SUPPERS & SIPPERS

Celebrations and tastings happening this January…
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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

Linkwood 25 Years Old Distillery Label

£165.00

£195.00

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This single malt was distilled at Linkwood distillery, located in the Speyside region of Scotland. It was aged in the First fill and refill Sherry casks and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for their Distillery Label collection, at ABV of 46% without chill-filtration or artificial colouring.

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Mortlach 2002 19 Year Old Connoisseurs Choice

From the world-acclaimed Connoisseurs Choice range by G&M is this single cask Mortlach exclusively bottled just for us!

£195.00
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Released by renowned independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail as part of their Connoisseurs Choice series, this single malt Scotch whisky has been bottled exclusively for The Whisky Shop. The expression was originally distilled in 2002 at Mortlach distillery in Speyside. After spending 19 years in a refill bourbon barrel, this rare dram was bottled in May 2022 at 56% abv.

On the nose, there is spiced apple, fragrant vanilla, and dark honey. The palate is full of watermelon, citrus zest, and butterscotch before leading into the medium finish full of tropical fruit and oak.