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CASK NO. 38.37

Fantasy playground for jelly babies

  • ABV 51.2%
  • Age 25 years
  • DISTILLED DATE 26/7/1996
  • CASK TYPE 2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel
  • REGION Speyside
Back Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes

The nose had us imagining jelly babies playing with glace cherries and marshmallows, while honey dripped from an apple tree hive on to lilies below. We naughtily stole their marshmallows and ate them, followed by key lime pie and sauternes-poached pears; then we defiantly puffed candy cigarettes while blossoms fell from the same apple tree. The reduced nose discovered berry tart with custard, gorse flowers and chamomile, quince jelly, melon and popcorn. The palate now had pink wafers, apples, pears, lemon peel, peppermint and coriander seeds warming the finish. At 21 years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.

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​SOCIETY CELEBRATES TRIPLE CENTURY OF AWARDS WITH SFWSC WIN


Celebrations are in order after The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s triumph at this year’s San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC). The impressive win of three double gold, one gold and six silver medals took the Society’s haul of awards above 300 since 2018, topping out at 307 across all competitions.

“Our latest SFWSC awards and the fact that we’ve now won more than 300 awards since 2018 highlights the SMWS’s continuous mission to offer our members outstanding whisky, across a variety of flavour profiles and from multiple different cask types. Nothing screams quality louder than global recognition, and we’re very proud to be able to show from these international awards that our whisky is consistently judged to be up there with the very best of the best,” said Kai Ivalo, the Society’s Whisky Director.

The Society’s award-winning SFWSC bottles were:

Double Gold
Cask No. 4.379 Cliffside harbour
Cask No. 59.75 Walk down memory lane
Cask No. G15.28 Contrast and balance

Gold
Cask No. 38.37 Fantasy playground for jelly babies

Silver
Cask No. 9.273 Fun and frolics
Cask No. 41.163 Quite unusual
Cask No. 53.428 Scents of a haunted mansion
Cask No. 53.466 Crunchy munchies
Cask No. 140.19 Maple syrup on a leather stirrup
Cask No. 140.21 Clouds of smoky sweet dreams

To learn more about the SFWSC competition, click here.

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