Its not always about the Single Malts. Sometimes we have special beer or wines that are related in some way to our whiskies.
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The worlds very first Ocean Aged Matched Boilermaker. Let us introduce the second component to our ‘Ocean-Aged Matched Boilermaker’ - the BEER. Or in this case the Iron House Portside Red Ella Red Ale (in MASSIVE 440ml cans). Now Iron House make some sensational beers but the Red Ale is Iron House’s most popular beer. Now ‘our’ Red Ella has a little something extra - namely 6 weeks aging in one of the barrels that the ‘Portside’ whisky came out of before going into the can. You can tell ours are different because each 440ml can has our SMWC logo on it, and Iron House have bumped the abv up just a notch over normal to 5.2%abv. And, let’s face it - where else BUT the SMWC are you going to get a matched-pair like this!? -
A first for the SMWC – until now, we’ve never before offered a wine! That’s right – your WHISKY club is offering a non-distilled beverage as our Members Extra this month…and it isn’t even made from malt! But of course, this is not just any wine…It’s a very special Iron House Vineyards 2018 Pinot Noir, the very wine whose barrels were used to mature this months whisky in! This is a special opportunity to sample a perfectly matched pair from an absolutely brilliant distillery and vineyard! This Iron House Vineyards 2018 Pinot Noir is a superb example of ‘farm to bottle’ production. This wine is completely produced at Iron House - from growing the grapes to crushing, fermenting and ageing. Aged for around 12 months on the wood and then bottled and laid to mature until it’s ready to drink.OUR TASTING NOTESBouquet: Sweet cherries and plumbs and black berries with a backbone of mild tannins. There’s also a savoury quality floating around in the mix. Palate: Medium bodied with mild white pepper and more of those red fruits in spades. A little cola flavour too, in there somewhere. A nice balance between the dry oak notes, and sumptuous red and black fruits. Finish: Rich, long and satisfying. Chewy and mouth-watering with all those big fruits and berries washing over mild spice as it slowly fades into the occasion! This is a superb, rich and complex red that sits just as comfortable around Mum’s Sunday roast as it does a takeaway curry. It presents well strait after opening, but if you give it 10-15 minutes to breath after opening, you’ll notice a much fuller, rounder quality to this practically perfect Pinot.