SMWS Outturn October 2021 goes live on Friday 1st October 2021
Spice Up Your Life – 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 Spice Up Your Life October 2021 outturn has to offer. The SMWS October 2021 outturn is released on Friday 1st October 2021.
See below the full list of bottles being released for the SMWS October 2021 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 July 2021 outturn).
Spice Up Your Life SMWS Outturn October 2021 bottles below:
53.384 – CLASSIC TASTE OF COASTAL ISLAY
60% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 10yo ~ Islay
The nose conjured a croft by the sea – straw, tar, oil, rocky shore and nutty smoke – inside we found egg custard tarts, smoky bacon crisps and salmon baked with lemon and rosemary. The neat palate was lively, sweet and chalky, with coal tar soap, smoked fish and tobacco; then sorrel, curry leaf and Wonton soup to finish….read more
£65.00
100.26 – LICKING A FLAMENCO DANCER’S SHOE
59.3% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Spanish Oak Hogshead ~ 13yo ~ Speyside
After eleven years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a first-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead – and wow – the nose delivered sticky stewed fruits, orange peel and cinnamon, ‘clove-studded ham cooked in Coca-Cola and basted in black treacle’ and flamenco bar memories of leather, wood, tobacco and sherry…read more
£65.15
94.16 – CLOTTED CREAM ON A NECTARINE
56.6% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 12yo ~ Highland
Sweet and fragrant aromas combined juicy red toffee apples, pineapple and melon with butter and honey on brown toast. The buttery notes thickened into clotted cream before morphing on the palette into butterscotch, vanilla and coconut cream…read more
£62.00
80.24 – SWIZZLED OR STIRRED
59.7% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 9yo ~ Speyside
The nose neat had bags full of vanilla, perfume in a leather handbag, geraniums, honey glazed melon, candied limes, cinnamon porridge oats as well as fresh sawn wood. On the palate at first a lovely peppery creaminess followed by vanilla bean sorbet with pineapple topping and chilli flakes….read more
£48.40
115.25 – WOOD CHIPS IN A FRUIT BOWL
59.0% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 11yo ~ Speyside
We began by strolling through meadows of hay bales and corn husks with the fragrance of honeysuckle and cherry blossom heavy in the air. Juicy fruits then arrived with satsumas, plums and gooseberries topped with cinnamon and custard powder. In the mouth, a wave of dried apple, dates, figs….read more
£58.00
46.118 – DEEP ARMCHAIR SATISFACTION
52.0% ~ 1st Fill Shaves, Toasted and Re-Charred Ex-Oloroso Barrique ~ 28yo ~ Speyside
After 26 years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a first-fill oloroso barrique. The nose was like sniffing a butt – oak, leather tobacco pouches, orange peel, chocolate-dipped cherries, raisins and prunes. On our palates the oak and the fruit danced a mesmerizing zarabanda….read more
£205.92
53.387 – SMOKY DYNAMITE SHRIMP
60.2% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Oloroso Sherry Hogshead ~ 9yo ~ Islay
“Big and dirty” like heavily burnt sage sausages smothered in a smoky barbeque sauce, while on the palate a dynamite shrimp that Japanese appetizer comprising of battered shrimp coated in a mixture of spicy mayonnaise and sriracha sauce. With water more maritime aromas appeared….read more
£63.00
41.144 – A SHERRY SOUL
56.4% ~ 1st fill Spanish Oak Ex-Pedro Ximenes Butt ~ 14yo ~ Speyside
Imagine a full tabanco (a tavern in Jerez with a sherry soul), authentic flamenco music and tapas as someone glues posters on the wall advertising the next bullfights. We ordered briny olives, Iberico ham and smoked scallops with avocado puree as well as an aged Fino sherry. Briny, lemon rind, almonds….read more
£65.15
3.333 – SLOWLY FORGETTING THE 1980S
56.8% ~ 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 17yo ~ Islay
The aroma burst form the glass with that familiar sweet, scented peat smoke. Perfumed, we though, but not in a 1980s way. Beyond that we noted scented waxes, herbal smoke, long-aged smoked teas and beach pebbles. Just beautiful! With water we found samphire in salted butter, BBQ coals, dunnage must….read more
£122.00
78.51 – ENDANGERED DISTILLATE
59.3% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 8yo ~ Highland
A broad and generous aroma that included cream soda, baking parchment, barley sugars, soft waxes, pulpy yellow fruits, under-ripe melon, dried herbs and pineapple jelly. Water gave us mineral oils, pollen, chamois leather, wildflowers and richer notes of hessian then stone fruits and tinned lychee in syrup….read more
£49.00
66.205 – A SLAP IN THE FACE WITH A WELLY BOOT
59.4% ~ Refill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 12yo ~ Highland
The panel went crazy describing the nose – ‘wood fire, ash and embers’, ‘shucking oysters wearing waterproof waders’, ‘putting up telephone poles by the beach, with a muscle rub after’ and ‘chestnut vendor by the sea’; all this inspired by aromas of tar, creosote, salt sea air, ash, antiseptic, leather….read more
£62.00
78.51 – ENDANGERED DISTILLATE
59.3% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 8yo ~ Highland
A broad and generous aroma that included cream soda, baking parchment, barley sugars, soft waxes, pulpy yellow fruits, under-ripe melon, dried herbs and pineapple jelly. Water gave us mineral oils, pollen, chamois leather, wildflowers and richer notes of hessian then stone fruits and tinned lychee in syrup….read more
£49.00
5.88 – A SPRIG OF MINT
58.1% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel~ 18yo ~ Lowland
We noted at first a wonderful intense, yet delicate, citrus sweetness of lemon scones with clotted cream, followed by sliced pears and peaches and the aromatic scent of pine trees. Still feisty on the palate neat, a lemony zing like that of a well-made grapefruit and thyme gin fizz, with a corny bourbon note in the finish….read more
£90.00
48.135 – BISCOFF BISCUITS
61.5% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 9yo ~ Speyside
The aroma reminded us of white chocolate toasted oats, strawberry granola, bourbon vanilla bean shortbread cookies, rich tea finger biscuits and butter-toasted hazelnuts. The palate neat was strong and robust with a sweet/spicy flavour combination dominating as in a salted caramel cheesecake with a buttery biscuit base….read more
£48.40
73.122 – CHILLI COCONUT CONGOLAIS COOKIES
59.7% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 10 ~ Speyside
We were delivered a bouquet of sweet aromas: vanilla custard, coconut milk, Jaffa cakes, key lime pie and a bag full of fruity wine gums. The taste neat reminded us of roasted cherry vanilla ice cream with chunks of chilli chocolate and nuts as well as a good dash of bourbon whiskey….read more
£54.80
55.67 – WHOLESOME AND SUBSTANTIAL
57.8% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Spanish Oak Hogshead ~ 14yo ~ Speyside
We opened a bag of raisins, dipped figs in malt vinegar and made soft nougat with dark chocolate, hazelnut and almonds topped with chocolate flavoured sprinkles. On the palate the chocolatey flavour was further endorsed, but in addition we detected a spicy sweet and sour plum sauce…read more
£74.80
135.36 – WORTH A TRY
55.7% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 18yo ~ Highland
Imagine standing on the Blue Mountain peak in the “Land of Springs” and you could see the bonnie bonnie banks of … or how about Bob Marley drinking a Rob Roy cocktail, malty, sweet, fruity, funky! On the palate like a Bloody Mary but with rum called a Cubanito, tomato and lemon juice, Worcester and horseradish sauce….read more
£81.20
113.54 – “EPISODE OF THE MADELEINE”
61.9% ~ 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel ~ 11yo ~ Speyside
A fascinating variety of aromas neat greeted the panel; ginger and walnut carrot cake, nougat, key lime pie, raspberry millefeuilles, but then also sweet vine ripened tomatoes and picking blueberries fresh from the bush. On the palate we found melted vanilla ice cream, sweet hazelnut toffee wafer, custard creams all washed down with a passion fruit Bellini cocktail….read more
£53.40
39.226 – A ‘TOONIE’ VISITING ELGIN
60.7% ~ Re-Fill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead ~ 10yo ~ Speyside
A lovely delicate distant smoke as we imagined watching Audrey Hepburn as Holly in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ using an oversized cigarette holder. Plenty of peat smoke on the palate, blowtorched mango, vanilla and brine next to oily slightly medicinal flavours as well as hot smoked sweet cured mackerel strips…read more