Members Favourites Whisky Box

The perfect Whisky Tasting Gift Box for those whisky enthusiasts in your life – The Single Malt Whisky Club ‘Members Favourites’ Tasting Box!

This specially-curated box of award winning deliciousness features 4  x 100ml bottles of our highest rating whiskies for your enjoyment!

• Penderyn ‘The Headliner’
• Cù Bòcan 12 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask 
• Spirit Thief American Oak Cabernet
• Darkness 16 Year Old Benrinnes PX

PLUS your Members Favourite Tasting Box includes full descriptions of each whisky PLUS tasting notes. Enjoy

Each Whisky Tasting Gift Box contains:

Penderyn ‘The Headliner’ (46%) – WALES

Exclusive to the Club, the 9th whisky in the ‘Icon of Wales’ series…a Jamaican Rum and Ruby Port Cask Matured Whisky, in celebration of Welsh British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George.

Nose: Lovely summer stone fruits – cherries, plumbs and peaches with a hint of tart pineapple. But there’s more than just fruit here – jube lollies, floral jasmine wafts and a hint of petrichor there as well.

Palate: Crispy clean mouthfeel, with just a hint of pepper. The sweet notes on the nose don’t really carry through here as promised – it’s quite a dry affair actually. There is sweetness at first, don’t get me wrong – but it’s soon overtaken by sharp, crunchy fruit notes (think granny smith apple) backed with mild tannin-astringency.

Finish: Lovely fruitiness with a sugar-gum sweetness comes through at the end but is given some pleasant edges by the white pepper notes. Crisp and clean spirit with a nice tartness that just begs to go around again as your noseing the next one.

Cù Bòcan 12 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask (46%) – SCOTLAND (HIGHLAND)

For only 1 week a year, the legendary Tomatin Distillery distils from lightly-peated barley and to produce a MULTI-AWARD WINNING, 12 year old single malt matured in RUM CASKS from Guyana and Barbados. For the FIRST TIME in Australia you get to feast your whisky taste buds on the Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask!

• Best Scottish Single Malt (12yo and under) – World Whiskies Awards 2024
• Gold – San Francisco World Spirit Competition 2024

Nose: At first a musty malt aroma but a definite hint of Caribbean ‘rum funk’ there with a sweet, overripe tropical fruit salad note, hot-summer-nights summer jasmine flowers plus just a tiny pinch of sweet polyethene glue note in the very peripheries.

Palate: Rather dry on the palate at first with medium ginger heat curtain that parts to allow crisp green apple and tart-sweet pineapple, candied citrus rind and vanilla.

Finish: A rather crisp and clean finish. There’s just the smallest suggestion of smoke there at the end, but the fadeout is mostly those fruity notes again.

Spirit Thief American Oak Cabernet (55%) – AUSTRALIA (TASMANIA)

Made exclusively for the Single Malt Whisky Club, aged in Cabernet casks from a renowned Clare Valley winery and bottled at a premium 55% ABV for our members. This STRICTLY LIMITED viscous single malt is a rich journey into fig jam, vanilla, fresh tobacco, rice-pudding and Italian expresso.

Nose: Stewed fruit and oak straight away but there’s a beguiling sweetness over the top as well. I say ‘wizz-fizz’, my dear old dad says boiled lollies. Whatever it is, you can (and will!) nurse this one under your schnoz and argue about it for ages!

Palate: A fantastically luscious mouthfeel – rich and oily. Nice and fruity without being too sweet – but there are jammy notes as well. At full strength it does provide a fair pepper, but if that’s not your thing, a dash of water settles that right down. Coffee and nutty notes flow on into the finish.

Finish: Settles in for a while this one. Coffee and dark chocolate rolls around roasted nut brittle and sweet pipe tobacco in the tin as it fades out with a lovely warmth.

Darkness 16 Year Old Benrinnes PX (51.3%) – SCOTLAND (SPEYSIDE)

Normally, the Darkness releases are finished for around 6 months but this amazing dram has been aged in ex-bourbon casks for the initial 15 years of life but has had a full YEAR of finishing to take on the intense sherry characteristics from the Pedro Ximinez Casks.

Nose: Lots of jammy notes up front, but also crushed nuts and sticky date pudding round out the nose nicely.

Palate: A big, meaty dram by all measures. Lovely rich mouthfeel, and a touch of white pepper spiciness. Salty plumbs, chocolate and cinnamon, blackberries by the bucketload, stewed plumbs and vanilla pods. There’s a real meatiness to this dram as well – Big and Solid, Rich and Round!

Finish: Delicious chocolate notes swirl around white pepper, coffee, dark chocolate and stewed fruit. The pepper offsets the abundant sweetness and sweet spices perfectly!

So big, so fruity, so jammy and good! As chewy as juicy fruit- and almost as fruity! It’s got a massive depth of flavour and handles 51.3%ABV with grace and style