1st SMWS Outturn August 2023 goes live on Friday 4th August 2023
Sensory Sippers – The Scotch Malt Whisky Society releases (outturn) several single cask bottlings of Scotch, Whisk(e)y, Rum and Gin, to name a few, usually on the first Friday of every month. Below is a full list of what the 1st SMWS Sensory Sippers August 2023 outturn has to offer. The 1st SMWS August 2023 outturn is released on Friday 4th August 2023.
See below the full list of bottles being released for the 1st SMWS August 2023 outturn. (Don’t worry you can join the SMWS here) but be quick several of the bottlings sell out as quickly as the day they are released.
(here is a quick link to last month’s SMWS Outturn: SMWS July 2023 outturn).
Sensory Sippers 1st SMWS Outturn August 2023 bottles below:
4.366 – Kelp Me If You Can
64.8% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 11yo ~ Highland ~ £66.00
alty sea spray was carried in the breeze on to fresh oysters, smoked mussels and battered haddock while heather honey was poured over caramel ice cream in a cone. A playful heat on the palate tingled alongside sweet plums and salted liquorice before burnt toast and lavender smoke joined singed croissants and toffee apples. Adding water brought us earl grey tea with milk chocolate biscuits, served on dried driftwood with toasted sesame oil, seaweed and cherry jam in a seashell... read more
4.371 – Meditation Mode
63.1% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 12yo ~ Highland ~ £76.90
The sweet smoke of lavender, heather and cinnamon, coming from a lit incense stick, almost brought us into a state of meditation. On the palate, we discovered vanilla, heather honey and Italian anise cookies. Following dilution the nose turned more maritime, with crushed shells as well as linguini pasta tossed with a medley of seafood in a white wine cream sauce. To taste we moved to Spain and enjoyed a seafood paella accompanied by a glass of shiraz, with enticing flavours of vanilla and smoky berries in the finish… read more
B5.8 – Dark ‘N’ Stormy In Jamaica
63.2% ~ 1st Fill Charred Oak Barrel ~ 6yo ~ Tennessee ~ £67.50
We imagined walking among grapes which were being sun-dried on straw mats, a process known as “soleo” in Spain. On the palate, it was initially dry and spicy with sweetness in the background, like a fiery Jamaican dark ‘n’ stormy cocktail using navy-strength rum and strong ginger beer – invigorating! Following reduction we lit a bonfire on the beach, watching flying sparks and hearing the pop and crackle of the burning wood. To taste, salted caramel, stewed raisins, cherry pie and vanilla custard with a long finish of PX sherry over luxury spiced Belgian chocolate ice cream… read more
B5.10 – Birch Beer In The Shade
62.1% ~ 1st Fill Charred Barrel ~ 7yo ~ Tennessee ~ £69.50
The nose brimmed with dark orange peel, rye bread spices, bitter marmalade with coriander seed, and heavier notes of warm strop leather, furniture polish, face cream and cloves. Some reduction brought currant buns, sticky toffee pudding, vanilla pods in custard with cardamom, boot polish and waxed canvas. A big, complicated beast! The palate was wonderfully spicy up front with caraway, sarsaparilla and paprika, before fruitier notes of raspberry cordial, blackcurrant leaf and raisins… read more
6.69 – Tyrant, Show Thy Face!
64.1% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Sherry Butt ~ 10yo ~ Speyside ~ £64.20
The Panel felt this one was a curious mix of many features. Initial nosing suggested pencil erasers dipped in honey, polished shoe leather, white chocolate mice, golden sultanas, Turkish delight in a cigar box and damp tobacco leaf. With water it was still a rather broad jamboree of styles and aromas: lots of cornflour, dry-roasted peanuts, camphor, rapeseed oil, light vanilla, coal scuttles and old oak sea chests. The palate opened with roast coffee grounds, bitter dark chocolate, fig rolls, muscovado sugar and aged dry madeira… read more
35.358 – Library Fees
58.3% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 9yo ~ Speyside ~ £60.00
We opened an old library book, each page having been gently buttered by a toast obsessive. We then dunked a new wellington boot in dark cherry jam and decorated it with fennel. The palate was leathery, with bergamot, a pinch of mace, juicy plums, and lemon and honey lozenges. Water introduced a fruit salad to the nose, along with sandcastles on the beach and waxed cotton jackets. To finish, the palate became much sweeter, as condensed milk joined almond butter and madeira cake dusted with Chinese five spice… read more
39.282 – Chauffeur-Driven Gateau
57.5% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Hogshead ~ 16yo ~ Speyside ~ £106.90
Butter melted into toasted malt loaf before marmalade was spread like orange tarmac on a highway to charred mango, mixed spices and forests of resinous exotic woods. Motorways of marzipan meandered through black forest gâteau with chocolate sauce as ground cinnamon and nutmeg blew in the breeze. Adding water plotted a scenic route along streets of strawberry liqueur lined by paths of plums, nectarines and fresh figs. The journey was a smooth ride as lumps of lime were softened by orange chocolate, gooey cakes and fragrant tobacco… read more
41.167 – Oozes Decadence
56.0% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Hogshead ~ 15yo ~ Speyside ~ £92.40
The nose was a journey from Dundee (Dundee cake, linoleum) to France (brandy snaps), and from Spain (sherry trifle) to Madeira (sweet wine) and the USA (butter pecan pastries). The lovely, chewy palate gave us honey, dates, raisins and hot cross buns, with a dry finish of membrillo, cranberry sauce and ginger-flavoured halva. The reduced nose oozed decadence – candy floss, stem ginger, cherry clafoutis, black forest gateau and sangria poured over freshly charred staves. Again on the palate, sweetness (cinnamon swirls, jam doughnuts and watermelon) gave way to roasted chestnuts, pink peppercorns, dark chocolate and fragrant oak… read more
44.172 – Skip The Light Fandango
56.7% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Hogshead ~ 20yo ~ Speyside ~ £150.80
The nose had honey and nut cornflakes, sticky buns, moist gingerbread and peanut brittle, orange boxes and cherry cola in a leather shoe. The intense, deep palate had pastel de nata, syrup of figs, dates and stewed prunes with custard to begin, leaning later into earthier notes of thyme, oregano, tobacco strands and wine-stained flamenco floorboards. The reduced nose went from golden syrup, maple candies and hot fudge sundae to sawn oak and orange groves. The palate now combined demerara sugar on roasted peaches and honey on fresh figs with salted peanuts and cigarette ash… read more
46.144 – Intense Earthy Sweetness
53.4% ~ 1st Fill Ex-PX Hogshead ~ 13yo ~ Speyside ~ £75.90
After nine years in ex-bourbon wood, this spent further time in a first-fill American oak PX hogshead. The nose discovered sweetness (prunes, Eccles cakes, golden syrup on porridge, toffee) and a wonderment of wood and leather – old bookshops and flamenco-battered floorboards came to mind. The palate was sweet but curious – brown sugar on burnt toast, fig jam, birnenbrot and candied orange, with pepper, liquorice and clove to finish. The reduced nose combined plum and apple chutney with treacle, raisins and sherry trifle… read more
48.159 – High Summer High Jinks
53.4% ~ 1st Fill Ex-PX Hogshead ~ 13yo ~ Speyside ~ £75.90
After nine years in ex-bourbon wood, this spent further time in a first-fill American oak PX hogshead. The nose discovered sweetness (prunes, Eccles cakes, golden syrup on porridge, toffee) and a wonderment of wood and leather – old bookshops and flamenco-battered floorboards came to mind. The palate was sweet but curious – brown sugar on burnt toast, fig jam, birnenbrot and candied orange, with pepper, liquorice and clove to finish. The reduced nose combined plum and apple chutney with treacle, raisins and sherry trifle… read more
66.239 – Mouton Bouille
57.9% ~ 2nd Fill Charred Wine Barrique ~ 15yo ~ Highland ~ £91.40
The generous and vibrant nose brimmed with smoked honey, hessian, sacks of freshly malted barley, malt extract and milky darjeeling tea. We also got some slightly tangier and funkier tones of pickling juices, game meats and confit duck. And a definite impression of charcoal rubbed into sheep’s wool! Reduction brought cocoa and coffee grounds, peanuts roasted with paprika and singed raisins. It also became much earthier, sootier and smokier. Leaf mulch, wood smoke and green peppercorns were all present. The neat palate glowed with hot chai tea, game salami, engine oils, a gentle peaty tang and smouldering hay… read more
68.113 – Cinnamon Toffee (Pine) Apples
60.0% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 9yo ~ Highland ~ £60.00
The generous and vibrant nose brimmed with smoked honey, hessian, sacks of freshly malted barley, malt extract and milky darjeeling tea. We also got some slightly tangier and funkier tones of pickling juices, game meats and confit duck. And a definite impression of charcoal rubbed into sheep’s wool! Reduction brought cocoa and coffee grounds, peanuts roasted with paprika and singed raisins. It also became much earthier, sootier and smokier. Leaf mulch, wood smoke and green peppercorns were all present. The neat palate glowed with hot chai tea, game salami, engine oils, a gentle peaty tang and smouldering hay… read more