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!
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.
Signatory Vintage Pulteney 2008 (55.8%) – SCOTLAND (HIGHLAND)
Distilled at the Pulteney Distillery and aged in refill Bourbon Barrels. After around 9 years the three casks were married into a single fresh Sherry Butt for 33 months to finish. The resultant whisky is bottled at cask strength, un-chill filtered and without any additives of any kind.
Nose: Poached pears, sultanas, unburnt tobacco, with a touch of salt on the nose as well.
Palate: Fruit comes through much richer and darker than on the nose. Those big, red ‘sherry fruit tones’ in abundance, but also some vanilla and buttery notes from those bourbon barrels, some pepper there too – big on the first sip, but settles thereafter.
Finish: Nice hearty and long finish, the pepper presents at the front of my tongue in waves, whilst the stewed fruit seems to sit on my cheeks. That sea-side salty nuance re-appears as well.
The buttery, vanilla from the bourbon casks is nicely complimented by the fruity, first-fill sherry cask treatment it had for just shy of 3 years. And I do get the salty maritime influence I’ve always loved from Pulteney whisky
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
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