August 2012 Outturn Bottling List · 2015-10-07 · The palate now found flambéed bananas, sweet dark toffee and abundant spice (musk, myrrh, cinnamon) at the end. The distillery

August 2012

Bottling List Outturn

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Another award

winning lineup!

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Each Society bottling is unique. And each can be identified by its markings. The

tasting notes give you an insight into the characteristics of each whisky, and are

the best place to start.

You may find yourself drawn to a ‘Wild west cowgirl dressed in leather’ or have a

preference for ‘A lady of the night’ (hey, we don’t judge). Maybe your instincts lead

you to a dram that’s more like ‘Candy floss in a fairground’ or perhaps akin to

‘Keith Richards meets Socrates.’

These curious descriptors are your best clue to what you’ll find within each bottle,

and are at the heart of The Society’s raison d’être.

With The Society’s monthly selection of single cask malts it’s not surprising that

some members find it hard to focus on their perfect bottlings. Thankfully it’s not

cheating to ask for help. Just call Kensington Wine Market at 403-283-8000

(within Calgary) or at 1-888-283-9004 (outside Calgary) or email us at

[email protected] or [email protected] for advice of an

expert nature.

How to use Outturn

Welcome to the August 2012 Outturn!

outturn n. 1 The number of Society bottles produced from a single cask. Varies

from cask to cask. A finite number that will, sooner or later, run out.

2 The name given to Society bottling lists, containing Tasting Notes for each

recently released Society bottling of which only a limited number are ever available

(see above).

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Complex and manly

Cask No Rich, complex and delicious: fruity rum-toft, unripe plums and mellow fruits,

nuts and chocolate, unlit cigars, hard toffee, shoe polish… developing to waxy

cake tin. A big texture at full strength: sweet, waxy and meaty, with surprise chilli

chocolate and ‘cherries soaked in sweet vermouth’. With water the waxiness

increases; now shredded and glazed roast duck, gingerbread, stewed

strawberries, a trace of dusty wood behind, indicating age. Smooth and sweet to

taste; slightly waxy with tobacco traces and chocolate-covered biscuits. From

Dufftown’s first distillery.

76.88 Bottle price

$176.99

In the library, with coffee and a cigar Drinking tip:

Colour: Pale amber Date distilled: September 1988

Cask: Refill hogshead, ex-bourbon Alcohol: 51.7%

Age: 23 years Outturn: 235 bottles

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Speyside (Spey)

Speyside (Spey)

A dram for Santa

Cask No Chocolate-coated nougat on the hands. Rich and mellow: dark chocolate with

orange zest; German ginger cake with cinnamon, nutmeg and Macademia nuts;

traces of stem ginger and chocolate-covered cherries and baked bananas. A

thick mouthfeel, voluptuous and rich; sweet with crème brulée and an aftertaste

of burnt sugar and lingering ginger. We added water reluctantly (be careful),

and it raised waxy oranges, sandalwood, currants and walnuts on the nose and

a spicy, gingery taste, with burnt marzipan and Macademia nuts. From the first

distillery built on Speyside in the 20th Century, designed by the President of the

Royal Academy.

105.18 Bottle price

$189.99

On Christmas morning, before church Drinking tip:

Colour: Deep amber; thick & viscous Date distilled: September 1983

Cask: Refill sherry hogshead Alcohol: 55.5%


Be nice to

Santa!

A reward after a long, wet walk Drinking tip:

Colour: Pale gold Date distilled: November 1995



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Highland (Island)

Smoker’s tooth powder

Cask No Fresh and lightly maritime – salt crystals, seaweed, mineralic – with some

fragrant dried-floral or mixed dried herbal notes, becoming faintly medicinal

and peaty. Eucryl Tooth Powder – check it out! Sweet and citric to taste, with a

smoky finish: ‘minty chewing tobacco’, commented one panel member. With

water, solvent notes emerge, but also dried fruits - ‘sultanas in alcohol’,

Madeira cake – then bath salts, Refreshers (sherbet sweets) and burnt

eucalyptus leaves. Sweet, fresh and slightly salty to taste, with a whiff of smoke

in the finish; maritime overall, with minty notes. An appealing example of

Michael Jackson’s ‘Great All-Rounder’.

4.162 Bottle price

$139.99

Highland (Island)

In a gentlemen’s club

Cask No The nose had polished wood, cigars and leather chairs ‘like a gentleman’s

club’, lots of cinder toffee, chocolate fingers, pastrami and various fruits

(orange jelly, cherries in syrup, plums, figs). The initial palate was somewhat

fierce but surprisingly enjoyable – moist ginger cake, Caramac, orange,

smoked ham and burnt sticks in birch syrup. The reduced nose had incense,

struck match, Trail Mix (dates, raisins, etc.) Horlicks, cinnamon and slightly

over-done Christmas cake. The palate now found flambéed bananas, sweet

dark toffee and abundant spice (musk, myrrh, cinnamon) at the end. The

distillery is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Magnus Eunson.

4.160 Bottle price

$132.99

Perfect dram for the ferry to Orkney - otherwise

after dinner

Drinking tip:

Colour: Dark rum Date distilled: April 1997

Cask: Refill gorda, ex-sherry Alcohol: 56.1%


Compare and

contrast

these two

from

distillery 4!

Tic-tacs & tar-mac

Cask No The first nose wave had PVA glue, waxed paper and soor plooms; the second

wave a tsunami of liquorice, tar, burnt heather and the string from Arbroath

smokies or kabanos. The unreduced palate had sweet toasted lavender, scorched

heather, tarry ropes and Imperial Leather, with a fine, long-lasting impact. The

reduced nose delivered Fry’s orange cream by a scalextric track; one panellist

was working on his bicycle – brake pads, inner tubes and the tar-mac road. The

reduced palate suggested mint humbugs and orange tic-tacs – fabulously sweet

with smoky depths – a dram to trigger vivid dreams. The distillery heats a

swimming-pool.

3.159 Bottle price

$181.99

A dram for a day off - perhaps playing with the

scalextric track

Drinking tip:

Colour: Goldilocks gold Date distilled: September 1989



To take in a hip flask up the Paps of Jura - or any

other hill

Drinking tip:

5

Colour: Old gold Date distilled: September 1988



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Highland (Island)

Islay

Sugared almonds in a mattress factory

Cask No The intriguing nose delivered dried fruits and mixed nuts, toffee, green malt,

mouse-trap cheese with a black, sooty fireplace grate somewhere in the

background. The palate was pleasantly sweet yet robust – with moist iced

gingerbread, liquorice, salt, smoke and chalky, limestone, earthy elements. The

reduced nose turned somewhat fatty and savoury, like leg of lamb or the

wrapping of a haggis supper – also cigarette papers and a mineral beach, with

salt marshes nearby. The palate now floral and sweet suggested sugared

almonds and iced gems in a coil-sprung mattress factory. The distillery, designed

by architect William Delmé-Evans, was built around 1960.

31.23 Bottle price

$169.99

Premiere of

distillery 31

in Canada!

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Islay

A changeling

Cask No All malts change in the glass - this one more than most! It begins clean, fresh

and mineralic, with a soapy edge, then gains soft toffee and charcoal, with

heather pollen, then moves towards treacle toffee, dentists’ mouthwash and…

prawn cocktail crisps! The taste, at this stage, is sweet, salty and tarry (toasted

barley; a hot kiln), with smoky bacon crisps. Water raises exhaust fumes, railway

engines, Hippie Afghan coats, goats, a smoking Bakelite plug, Plasticine, melting

vinyl records, bonfire ash; the taste now soft, sweet, salty, clay-like, with malt in

the ashy finish. From the Prince of Wales’ favourite distillery.

29.113 Bottle price

$115.99

Contemplating the sunset Drinking tip:

Colour: Pale green-gold Date distilled: February 2001



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How to order from Friday August 3rd

Through The Scotch Malt Whisky Society website at www.smws.ca, which will

then take you through to the Kensington Wine Market website for final purchase.

Through the Kensington Wine Market website at

www.kensingtonwinemarket.com - search for ‘The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’

under the Scotch tab.

By phoning Andrew Ferguson at the Kensington Wine Market at (403) 283-8000

(within Calgary) or at 1-888-283-9004 (outside Calgary).

In person at Kensington Wine Market, located at

1257 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 3P8.

Remember, you have to be a member to

purchase, so please have your membership number handy!

Not for swigging, glugging or knocking back! 7

But not forever!

Here’s a chance to sample some rare treats from our bottle bank of past Society

releases. Remember, Society whiskies are bottled from single casks, so they don’t

last forever. As the number of remaining drams decreases, their rarity increases.

Fortunately for you, the price doesn’t!

Past Bottlings

Wowee!

Cask No Wowee! – a mouth-watering nose – initial waves of teriyaki, soy noodles, crispy

bacon, cough medicine and rum, followed by roast pork with apple sauce and

sultanas cooking in cinnamon, butter and sugar; also some grass, wood glue and

bubble gum. We tasted fascinating flavours of char siu pork, dried figs and

cooked cherries and apples – then a breath-taking finish of liquorice, shoe polish,

wood and posh leather. The reduced nose was sweeter and tamer – spiced onion

jam and Old English Spangles. The palate now suggested brown sugar on

porridge, maple candy and hints of grapefruit. The distillery has a musical clock

tower.

105.17 Bottle price

$189.99

Speyside (Spey)

While waiting for the pork roast to be ready - easy

on the water

Drinking tip:

Colour: Deep ginger Date distilled: September 1983

Cask: First fill sherry hogshead Alcohol: 55.3%


Compare with

105.18 (page 3)!

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Speyside (Spey)

Speyside (Lossie)

Cheshire cat whisky

Cask No ‘Sweet manna from heaven’ – toffee, fudge, caramel, Toffifees, vanilla, honey –

but more – tea chests, spice racks, aromatic smoke, burnt heather and pencils

in a library – we could have sniffed it endlessly. Water opened up the fruit –

sherbet, orange zest, peach, strawberry, tinned grapes, sweet sap and light

smoke – panellists grinning like Cheshire cats. The sweet, oaky palate had

tablet, fudge and bread dough – by an open fire; but it also had a darker side –

woody, earthy, drying, with sticky cassis and treacle. Water brightened it up –

Starbursts, Skittles and spicy Advocaat. From the distillery always directed by

John or George.

1.164 Bottle price

$184.99

It needs time - one for a long journey perhaps - or

for an evening with no pressure

Drinking tip:

Buy with

64.35

(see page 11

for details)!

Colour: Polished gold Date distilled: October 1985



A whisky to dream about

Cask No We were drawn into this whisky, a dreamlike state descending on the panel. Our

nostrils remembered bananas, toffee and custard in a rose garden. The blades of

grass were red laces. Adding water saw us reading old leather books, while

bananas, pineapples and lemons grew all around. Meanwhile our tongues

recalled oak and spice with liquorice and plum skins before water introduced

mangoes, kiwi fruits and a big box of apples made out of sandalwood. A dream

so real, we could taste and smell every second of it. Wonderful!

39.85 Bottle price

$198.99

Perfect for an afternoon of daydreaming in the rose

garden

Drinking tip:

Colour: Barley stalks Date distilled: October 1982



29 years old!

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Speyside (Lossie)

Highland (Northern)

Nicey, nicey, sweet ’n spicy

Cask No The nose was finely layered – old-fashioned, expensive, floral perfume on top;

apple sauce, gooseberry purée and a tin of fruity boiled sweets below that; the

olfactory sub-strata inhabited by patent leather and old books. The taste was sweet

and hot – opinions included tom yam soup, mango chutney, HP Sauce, chilli,

crystallised ginger and leather. The reduced nose added floral pot-pourri, plum

chutney, polished sandalwood and Indian food (ginger, paprika, etc.). The palate

improved but the sweet and savoury profile remained steady – toffee, honey,

sugar-coated fennel seeds, liquorice and salty lime pickle. This distillery does

not draw water from Loch Dhu!

64.35 Bottle price

$160.99

A bit of a talking point whisky - could accompany an

Asian or Indian takeaway

Drinking tip:

Colour: Twinkly gold Date distilled: February 1990

Cask: Refill barrel, ex-bourbon Alcohol: 55.2%


After dinner, with espresso and dark chocolate Drinking tip:

Colour: Deep amber Date distilled: February 1994

Cask: Refill sherry butt Alcohol: 52.1%


Everything under the sun

Cask No The note-taker was bombarded with descriptors for the nose – morello cherries,

tinned pineapple, orange blossom, maple syrup, honey, rum and raisin fudge,

treacle toffee, fruit cake, muscovado, clove pomanders, liquorice, leather and

oaked wine, to name a few. The palate was equally complex, with raisins,

sultanas, dates, fig rolls, Christmas cake, liquorice, eucalyptus, Fisherman’s

Friends, caramel, orange oil, leather and PVC. The reduced nose had Jaffa Cakes,

strawberry jam and coffee, while the palate had orange zest, dried fruits,

Campinos, burnt sugar, pepper, distant matches and smoke in the finish. The

distillery has tall stills and a ghostly White Lady.

125.41 Bottle price

$154.49

Buy with 1.164

(see page 11 for details)!

Only

one left!

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Sweet vs savoury

Cask No

Bacon, maple syrup and waffles vie with Black Forest Gateaux and sticky toffee

pudding, while fried seaweed, spare ribs and black pudding tussle with lint

bandages, and smoke. Sweet, rich, smoky, ashy, thick and herbal on the palate

lent weight to the meatiness (pork covered in caramel). The addition of water

brought forth aromas of smoked goose, salty scallops, toffee, Seville orange

marmalade and fresh minty notes. The taste was chewy and rich but this time

with scorched heather, burnt citrus, barbecued lamb & mint sauce, violet ice

cream and caramelised onions. This distillery’s mascot is Shortie the Jack

Russell.

A definite foodie dram - while spit roasting a

suckling pig, perhaps?

Drinking tip:

Colour: Burnished gold Date distilled: August 1999

Cask: Refill butt Alcohol: 56.3%


33.114 Bottle price

$111.99

Back after a long

absence!

After skiing with a cheese fondue Drinking tip:

Colour: Blushed apricot gold Date distilled: November 2001

Cask: Refill barrel, ex-bourbon Alcohol: 58%


Scottish Heidi

Cask No Aromas of a rock garden with a variety of herbs like sage, fennel and turmeric as

well as a floral note of Edelweiss, whilst in the background fresh tar being laid on

a road. On the palate smoky Swiss cheese with digestive biscuits then becoming

sweeter, brownies and dark mint chocolates with a trace of teasing lavender

smoke. Adding water, dry and dusty then turning fresh like a Ricola Lemon mint

followed by a nougat note of dark Toblerone. The taste with water is of pork

sausages, water biscuits with peppered cream cheese and a dry volcanic ashy

note to finish. This distillery is believed to be named after a peninsula between

Cardross and Helensburgh.

66.33

Bottle price

$112.99

Highland (Eastern)

Islay

11 Not for swigging, glugging or knocking back!

Cognac

lovers take

note!

Soft, spicy, rich and intense

Cask No Wonderfully soft and perfumed yet spicy, deep, intense on the nose - hints of

sandlewood, dark cherries, toasted apple, candyfloss, oranges and spices

transported us to a late autumn bonfire (not Guy Fawkes or Halloween though).

On the palate initial intense spicy perfumed woody notes gave way to a soft

creamy taste with a hot spicy almost tannic finish. Water (and it didn’t really need

it) made it waxier with church candles and saddle soap, sweet caramel and rich

apple tarte tatin. To taste it seems even spicy - cinnamon, aniseed and clove but

still very soft and supple with a long sweet unctuous finish.

A4

Bottle price

$170.99

A perfect autumnal dram but would be fantastic as a

digestif Drinking tip:

Colour: Orange copper Date distilled: January 1983

Cask: Refill hogshead, ex-bourbon Alcohol: 47%


Armagnac

Purchase 1.164 “Cheshire cat whisky” and

64.35 “Nicey, nicey, sweet n’ spicy” together

and receive 15% off!

Curious? Read on!

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, founded in 1983 in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the world’s largest

single malt whisky club, with 26,000 members in 16 countries. The Society bottles in excess

of 300 casks each year from up to 128 distilleries, all at cask strength, and

available exclusively to members.

Members also receive The Society’s award winning magazine, Unfiltered, and have access to

member’s venues in Edinburgh, London, Tokyo and elsewhere.

The Canadian branch releases new single malt whiskies every month on the

first Friday of the month (“First Fridays!’).

In Canada, The Society’s exclusive retailer is Kensington Wine Market in Calgary. Membership can be

purchased for $230 plus GST (which includes the new member’s kit, pictured above) by calling

Kensington Wine Market at 403-283-8000 or visiting KWM’s website at www.kensingtonwinemarket.com.

Annual renewals are $120 (plus GST).

Only single cask, single malt whiskies that promise to intrigue, entertain and delight

our members are selected, true to our motto:

To leave no nose upturned.

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August 2012 Outturn Bottling List · 2015-10-07 · The palate now found flambéed bananas, sweet dark toffee and abundant spice (musk, myrrh, cinnamon) at the end. The distillery