SMWS Outturn March 2022

SMWS Outturn March 2022 goes live on Friday 4th March 2022

Flavour In Bloom – The Scotch Malt Whisky Society release (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 SMWS Flavour In Bloom March 2022 outturn has to offer. The SMWS March 2022 outturn is released on Friday 4th March 2022.

See below the full list of bottles being released for the SMWS March 2022 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 months SMWS Outturn: SMWS February 2022 outturn).

Flavour In Bloom SMWS Outturn March 2022 bottles below:

1.263 – Soft or Stiff Peaks?

58.5% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 9yo ~ Speyside

In our mind’s eyes we saw lemon sorbet, shortbread, pineapple tarts, custard cream but the descriptor from one panellist, which certainly topped the bill for being the most imaginative, was “whipped egg whites and sugar known as ‘stiff peaks’, like the top of the newly built hotel in the St James’s centre in Edinburgh”….read more

£61.20

3.328 – Wish You Were There?

58.1% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 17yo ~ Islay

Imagine roasting butterfly Tiger prawns in a garlic ginger soy sauce on the beach enjoying the mirror like reflections of white fluffy clouds in the blue sky on Lochindaal. As we admired the view someone handed round a box of original Vichy mint pastilles with the additional flavours of heather, lavender and lime…read more

£122.00

4.298 – I See Sushi

60.2% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 13yo ~ Highland

Alluring aromas combined the light salt of sea air with the delicate floral notes of heather and jasmine tea. A subtle medicinal character stood aside while dried seaweed and pink pickled ginger complimented smoked oysters, fresh seafood and tangy sea buckthorn. On the tongue a wave of wasabi spice washed over sticky honey, quince jelly and lemon meringue pie…read more

£68.00

7.275 – Allspice Sponge Cake

56.0% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 12yo ~ Speyside

Thick buttery notes and sweet icing coated roasted chestnuts and sponge cake with a layer of apricot jam, while cinnamon, liquorice and sultanas suggested dark rum. Flavours were a sticky combination of cloves, nutmeg and star anise blended into honey syrup with dark chocolate, coffee liqueur and leather. Adding water brought us orange oil with lemon, thyme and peppermint, before cereals in hessian sacks….read more

£69.60

16.63 – Smoking Cigars with Sumatra Wrappers

64.3% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 8yo ~ Highland

One of the panellists, not that he was that old, was reminded of Victorian cough mixture while others described the aroma as charred ginger, liquorice, cigar ash, and a smoky PX vibe. On the palate neat, we found sweet smoky prune juice with a spicy kick in the finish alongside singed rosemary, roasted red peppers, and treacle toffee….read more

£54.00

39.240 – Summer In A Glass

60.2% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 10yo ~ Speyside

The nose was summer in a glass – orchards and flower meadows, vanilla slice, brown sugar on mashed bananas, rhubarb rock, strawberry laces and summer creams. The palate was completely different – we encountered pencil shavings, green apple peelings and jalapenos, lemon tart, liquorice, leather and stewed pears with cloves….read more

£61.20

46.132 – Masala Delight

56.4% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 12yo ~ Speyside

Aromas characterised by ‘red’ suggested strawberry sweets, red roses, red apples and tomato plants against a backdrop of Turkish delight, fruity trifle and coconut cream. The palate introduced the spiciness of ginger, cinnamon and turmeric paste with hints of charred cask and burnt toast with strawberry jam….read more

£63.90

48.142 – Hipflasks Not Hipsters!

58.2% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 8yo ~ Speyside

The nose offered us a clear window onto this classic full bodied distillate with big notes of fatty waxes, cooking oils, herbal ointments and nettle tea with a spoonful of cough syrup. Reduction evolved things towards tropical fruit acids, pickled ginger, resinous exotic woods and medicinal notes….read more

£48.40

53.397 – A Splash of Ash

59.0% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 10yo ~ Islay

Lobster sizzled on a grill as sea-spray splashed onto kelp and dusty ash from a beach campfire. Among the ash and singed sticks we found toasted pineapples and peaches with notes of liquorice, seaweed and scotch broth. With a little water greener notes appeared of pine and moss with slightly floral aromas of fresh linen in bonfire smoke…read more

£69.00

63.96 – Incense In An Orchard

53.5% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 19yo ~ Speyside

Zesty apple skins and gooseberries combined with green leaves, marjoram and oregano while wisps of fragrant incense smoke and smouldering heather washed over pot pouri. Fruit-driven flavours exploded on the tongue before liquorice and dandelion & burdock introduced more earthy notes of sautéed chanterelle mushrooms and old dunnage warehouse floors…read more

£96.00

66.215 – Balsamic Minotaur

59.6% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 14yo ~ Highland

A wonderfully dense and thick nose, typical of this notoriously ‘farmyard’ distillery. Immediate notes of caramel sauce, chewing and pipe tobaccos, plum wine, five spice and strong black tea. We also noted vibes of old leather, salted liquorice and old school cream sherry. With water we found rum n’ raisin fudge, hessian, chocolate sauce, herbal wines and natural tar…read more

£76.20

68.74 – Oddball, Funky And Eccentric

57.4% ~ Re-Fill Re-Charred Hogshead ~ 11yo ~ Highland

The nose was big, bold and frankly offbeat – peanut brittle, gingerbread and Portuguese custard tarts, orange liqueur and preserved lemons, seaweed, sloes and charred oak staves. The palate was vaguely rum-like, with a reduction of raisins and cherries, manuka honey on birch twigs, toffee, toasted almonds, molasses, liquorice and leather…read more

£53.40

80.35 – Ankle Biter

59.1% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 9yo ~ Speyside

An unusually robust nose greeted the panel. Lots of hot toast, wood embers, fabrics, boiled lime sweets and putty. More lively that we are used to from this normally conformist distillery. Water brought peach stones, soda bread, chamomile, elderflower cordial and dried flowers in vase water…read more

£48.40

107.25 – Powdered Fruits

64.8% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 9yo ~ Speyside

A firm and fulsome aroma to begin, with waxes, eucalyptus balms, elderberries and then subtle notes of sandalwood, lemon barley water and new leather shoes. Easy going and highly pleasurable. Reduction brought bailed hay, pressed cider apples, honeydew melon and dried notes of talcum powder, oak furniture and lanolin…read more

£52.00

108.50 – Mountian Bothy Morning

59.4% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 10yo ~ Speyside

Whisperings of smoke on the nose – like a distant Meerschaum pipe or rosemary on bonfire embers; hints of Turkish delight, treacle, liquorice, Savlon and clove. The palate finds soft suggestions of peat smoke, cinders and ash, sherbet lemons and roast pork with five-spice powder rub…read more

£57.00

122.48 – Shamanic, Apothecary, Witchcraft Smoke

61.8% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 8yo ~ Highland

The nose wafts perfumed, shamanic, apothecary, witchcraft smoke; burnt twigs, singed lemon and grilled fish skin; cinnamon sticks in honey, smoked trout paté and Frito pie. The palate delivers a big smoky tasty beast – hickory-smoked hotdogs, over-toasted marshmallows and rosemary and fennel on barbecued fish – then a finish of liquorice, cinders and fire breather’s throat…read more

£49.00

G10.40 – A Beguillingly Syrupy Sweet Spiced Baba

61.5% ~ 2nd Fill Toasted French Barrique ~ 16yo ~ Lowland

We mixed a cocktail called ‘Smoked Cinnamon’- a concoction of cinnamon syrup, apple juice and grain whisky served in an old-fashioned glass and garnished with a smouldering stick of cinnamon. A silky and creamy mouthfeel like a rich orange chocolate caramel sauce with a stimulating spice in the finish…read more

£61.00