SMWS Outturn October 2020 is now live.
Let’s Get Fizzical! – The Scotch Malt Whisky Society release (outturn) several single cask bottlings of Scotch, Whisk(e)y, Rum and Gin, to name a few, on the first Friday of every month. Below is a full list of what the SMWS Let’s Get Fizzical! outturn released on the 2nd October 2020 has to offer.
The SMWS October 2020 outturn has 15 Scotch whiskies, 1 Irish whiskey, 1 grain whisky and 1 rum to choose from. These whiskies includes a 28 year old Glen Ord a 29 year old Balblair and much, much more… These unique monthly bottlings are only available to buy by members of the Society. (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 September 2020 outturn).
October’s SMWS Outturn below:
R2.12 – A Precious Treasure Trove
57.2% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 15yo ~ Guyana
Imagine being down a coal mine with an old-fashioned Davy lamp and in your snap tin for tea you had apple crumble and cream custard pie. On the palate a spicy, gingery heat at first followed by the strong sweetness of honey on crumpets and crème caramel….read more
£77.50
G10.25 – Whisky in a Rum Glass
59.3% ~ 2nd Fill Hogshead ~ 14yo ~ Lowland
Aromas reminiscent of rum combined cinnamon, nutmeg and nut oils with grass, straw and black cherries on a bed of coriander seeds and seasoned oak. On the tongue came an initial sugary hit of toffee apples, custard and butterscotch followed by ginger and the earthy herbal….read more
£55.00
2.117 – Cheerful Enjoyment
58.9% ~ Refill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 18yo ~ Speyside
A delightful nose with delicate aromas of butterscotch, fudge, perfumed rose, fresh hay, wild strawberries and raspberries and an empty, well used, cigar box. Very clean and fresh on the palate neat with a creamy mouth-feel of Peach Melba sundae, baked Alaska and strawberry….read more
£95.00
4.258 – Make Mine a Magnum!
56.9% ~ 1st Fill Barrique ~ 15yo ~ Highland
The initial nose was wonderfully – and classically – herbal and mentholated. Lots of pointed notes of menthol tobacco, mint tea, bouquet garni, smoked sea salt, wet beach pebbles and sandalwood. Wonderfully evocative and fresh. A little water brought a pure and superbly fresh coastal….read more
£87.00
9.178 – A Leather Cyberman
55.3% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Sherry Hogshead ~ 23yo ~ Speyside
A dense, leathery and resinous style of sherried whisky. We immediately found lots of anthracite, bacon jam, raspberry coulis and chocolate-covered pecans and Brazil nuts. Earthy, unctuous, deep and leathery. In time it revealed a salty oloroso edge and notes of maraschino cherry juice and furniture wax….read more
£137.00
51.18 – There’s Something About Enya
54.8% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 18yo ~ Northern Ireland
The Panel found an immediately bright and playful nose. Full of green jellied fruits, canvas, herbal syrups, freshly baled hay, earthy potting sheds, sweet pollens and agave syrup. Plush, sweet, grassy, fat and inviting! With water it became slightly chalkier. More towards linen, young calvados…read more
£140.00
58.39 – Lip-Smacking and Tongue-Tingling
62.1% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 8yo ~ Speyside
The nose had banana toffee, millionaire shortbread and ice-cream parlour sweetness; white pepper and humbug heat, tarragon, thyme and straw flip-flops by a holiday hotel swimming pool. On the palate, toffee, chocolate-coated raisins, milk chews and curiosity cola led on to tongue-tingling spice…read more
£48.00
59.62 – The Perfect Catch
55.6% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Sauternes Barrique ~ 11yo ~ Highland
We were served a nice and cool apple wine with lemonade (‘süss gespritzt’) out of the traditional earthenware jug called ‘Bembel’ while sitting in the heart of the old town square in Frankfurt. On the palate we crunched on honey and apple cider vinegar toffee. When we added water we were transported to the lush, green, rolling hills of northern Portugal…read more
£54.30
66.177 – Gummidge Vs Pugwash
59.6% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 14yo ~ Highland
Farmyard and seashore collide with the wreckage bursting from the glass! Salted meats, sheep wool, frying scallops, tractor engines, fishing nets, tar extract, bacon wrapped asparagus and salty beach pebbles. A tinge of horseradish gives warmth. Water unveils fresh sea air, gorse bush, horse stables, camphor, salted butter and campfire ash…read more
£63.00
70.41 – Orchard Beehives
49.5% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 29yo ~ Highland
Rich, golden honey trickled from honeycomb onto bruised apples and pears that lay scattered beneath. Floral notes of blossom and sandalwood combined with linseed oil and the fragrance of armagnac before fresh tobacco leaves and macaroons merged with apple crumble. The palate combined ginger spice with spearmint for a fresh appeal before moving to figs…read more
£270.00
77.65 – Pure Dead Brilliant
49.3% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel~ 28yo ~ Highland
The nose opened with a wonderfully fat, syrupy waxiness. Pure, old-school Highland-style malt whisky. Mineral oils, citrus jellies, crushed nettles, gorse, hessian, clove oil, light medical embrocations and gauze. Wonderfully aromatic, dense and complex. Water brings out wintergreen, myrtle, flint smoke, chalk, beach pebbles, lamp oil and paraffin-soaked hessian…read more
£240.00
80.16 – An Attack of the Vapours
60.7% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 8yo ~ Speyside
Surprisingly hefty for this make, was the Panel’s initial impression. Things like chamois leather, new shoes, canvas, steel wool, lanolin, hessian, old oak, rum and raisin and menthol cigarettes were all detected. It took a bit of water to unearth some more gentle notes of putty, ink, sea buckthorn berries, gingerbread, lime flowers, earthy potting sheds…read more
£44.80
89.12 – Maturity is More than a Number
64.8% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 7yo ~ Speyside
A complex nose delivered nuts and the soft leather of antique library books with a complex array of earthy dunnage warehouse floors, putty and calvados. Floral notes and sweet oranges developed into dried figs, raisons and walnuts on the palate along with gingerbread, mead and…read more
£48.00
91.27 – Fugitive Sweetshop
58.4% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 10yo ~ Speyside
The first impression was of sweetness with marshmallow spread, breakfast cereals dusted with icing sugar, buttermilk, lemon air freshener, Victoria sponge cake, milk bottle sweets and baby rusks. With reduction, the nose revealed fabrics, canvas, fennel seed, fizzy sweets, pink nougat, raspberry sauce and floral vapour rubs…read more
£52.00
93.145 – Sweet Filth
59.9% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 8yo ~ Campbeltown
The nose struck a balance between sweetly roasted chestnuts with smoked almonds and a filthy maritime manner that fused seaweed and kippers with anchovy butter. Wafts of smoke from burning coconuts combined with freshly baked granary bread as nut oils and salted cashews coated the tongue. Sweet flavours of digestive biscuits and dark…read more
£58.00
95.41 – Blackbeard’s Barbecue
58.7% ~ 1st Fill Barrique ~ 11yo ~ Speyside
The smell of tar covered decking blended with bursts of apples and raisins stewed in calvados, as asparagus and duck breasts sizzled on a barbecue with hoisin sauce. The palate brought a rounded warmth that suggested a large tot of spiced rum and Jamaican ginger cake served on banana leaves…read more
£57.10
108.26 – A Kiln Full of Kippers
64.8% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 7yo ~ Speyside
The sweet reek of applewood smoked kippers filled the air as a chimney sweep’s broom flicked a puff of soot that settled onto fresh muscles and scorched oak. A wonderful harmony appeared that married peat turfs and walnuts with burnt ribs of pork and mint covered lamb chops. Water unearthed salted liquorice…read more
£44.80
112.67 – Raisin Cane
55.4% ~ 1st Fill Barrique ~ 19yo ~ Highland
An interesting nose – eucalyptus honey, flapjacks, syrup sponge, Madeira wine, truffle oil mixed with balsamic and shoe polish in a tin. The palate combines raisiny sweetness (cane syrup, Eccles cakes, fruit cake, malt extract, biscotti dipped in vin santo) with wood characters (touch of tannic oak, pine resin, peach stones, exotic hardwoods)…read more
£82.50
113.31 – Push Pineapples Shake a Tree
58.1% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 22yo ~ Speyside
A gentle start delivered sweet perfume and candyfloss with clean wood and dry straw. Juicy fruits combined pineapple chunks with pears, peaches and strawberries against a backdrop of vanilla and sawdust. Spicy ginger and cloves arrived on the palate with a balanced sweetness of golden syrup and sugared doughnuts. Fruity notes persisted with quince jelly and grapefruit…read more
£94.40
122.33 – Muscular and Gymnastic
62.2% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 5yo ~ Highland
This smells like Santa’s house on Boxing Day – soot-covered clothing and boots on the floor while Santa relaxes in a Friars’ Balsam bath. Taste it though – and comfort and relaxation go out the window – this is severe – your tongue writhes like an eel on a dangling line. On the Richter scale of mouth tremors this is meteoric – intense smoke, tar, char, burnt sticks and embers…read more
£44.80
Lemon Odyssey
50.0% ~ Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ Blended Malt
The nose was immediately appealing, with creamy vanilla, melted butter and bananas. It was heady, sweet and malty with perhaps the slightest suggestion of woodsmoke and char. We inhaled the freshness of spearmint and clean macramé woven wool. The first taste was unexpected considering the nose – dried spices and liquorice with a nutty aftertaste (nougat, nut brittle toffee). Water awakened citrus notes in the form of lemon candy… read more