The Winter Series

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The Winter Series

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Our Winter Series is a toast to the spirit of the ceilidh, a tradition that once incorporated not only dancing but also storytelling, poetry and music. We’ve selected four bottlings to be enjoyed in convivial settings over the coming months. Whisky is for sharing – and that’s what the spirit of this series is all about. With a limited number of sets featuring all four bottles being released online on 18 October, you’ll also be able to purchase each bottle individually as we head through the season.

Each bottling features a QR code which gives you access to whisky tales from Tasting Panel chair and ‘Whisky Bard’ Robin Laing. Robin has captured the essence of each of these four whiskies with a series of fireside tales. Expect songs, poems and stories to bring the bottles to life. Join us in raising a glass and embracing the spirit of the ceilidh!

Cask No. 53.483: Supernaturally Sweet Smoke – Hallowe’en
Cask No. 121.110: Merry Christmas – Christmas
Cask No. 39.305: Welcome in, 2025 – New Year
Cask No. 88.31: Supper Sipper – Burns Night

Full details of all four bottles below, or read more about the Winter Series in Unfiltered.

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tasting notes

Hallowe’en

Cask No. 53.483: Supernaturally Sweet Smoke
Flavour Profile: Peated
Age: 12 years
ABV: 53.6%
Cask Type: 1st fill ex-American oak px hogshead

The nose combined spun sugar, toasted coconut and plum jam (burnt in the pot) with maple-cured bacon, tarry ropes and railway sleepers. The palate had deep, dark sweetness (molasses, muscovado, mince pies and burnt fruit cake), plus carbolic soap and balsamic on broccoli. The reduced nose picked up mantecadas (spongy Spanish pastries), salted buttered popcorn, banana split and the hold of an old sailing ship carrying molasses rum and dark sugar. The palate now represented conflict resolution – chocolate-coated cherries and raisins, smoked dates, spiced almonds, pipe dottles and peanut butter. Seven years in ex-bourbon wood preceded further maturation in a first fill American oak PX hogshead.

Christmas

Cask No. 121.110: Merry Christmas
Flavour Profile: Deep, Rich & Dried Fruits
Age: 9 years
ABV: 62.5%
Cask Type: 1st fill sherry hogshead

On the nose, a flamenco dancer in leather boots was making the oak floor shake – we clapped along while enjoying dates, figs, walnuts and serrano ham. On the palate we were immediately transported from Spain to the Caribbean, enjoying exotic flavours of raisins flamed in rum, molasses, mace, demerara sugar in espresso, candied orange peel and luxury cigars. Adding water, we returned as pirates to the coast of Spain – our galleon carrying a cargo of wine-stewed plums with cinnamon and clove, bitter orange, olive tapenade and barrels of sack – with cheroots stubbed out on the deck and the crack of an ancient musket.

NEW YEAR

Cask No. 39.305: Welcome in, 2025
Flavour Profile: Sweet, Fruity & Mellow
Age: 12 years
ABV: 58.6%
Cask Type: 1st fill bourbon barrel

As we splashed lemon juice and rose water over the morning newspaper, a tin of custard was opened alongside slices of red apple. Our palates were awash with fruit salad, guava jam, stewed pear and cacao husks with a dusting of white pepper. A drop of water opened up an old library book next to a cold mountain stream, with an apricot danish pastry being drizzled with heather honey alongside us on a sunny day. The palate was by now full of lemon drizzle cake, strawberry jam, tutti frutti ice cream and a touch of candied orange peel dressed with a sprig of mint.

BURNS NIGHT

Cask No. 88.31: Supper Sipper
Flavour Profile: Sweet, Fruity & Mellow
Age: 15 years
ABV: 56.1%
Cask Type: 1st fill ex-American oak px hogshead

A deep, dark sweetness was reminiscent of a cup of assam tea. The scent resembled those typical aromas of maltiness, caramelised orange zest and treacle tart. On the palate we were served a slice of rocky road: milk and dark chocolate, desiccated coconut, marshmallows, roasted unsalted peanuts and glacé red cherries. After we added water we found ourselves in cocktail territory, sipping a cosmopolitan with cranberry juice, maple syrup, lime and triple sec. The taste, however, was more like a mango old fashioned, with rye whiskey, mango syrup and a dash of bitters, served with a maraschino cherry.

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