Sold outIn short · Allt-a-Bhainne (Speyside), 7 years.
“The sweet reek of applewood smoked kippers filled the air as a chimney sweeps broom flicked a puff of soot that settled onto fresh muscles and scorched oak.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 108.26 is a single cask of Allt-a-Bhainne, in the Speyside region, 7 years old, bottled at 64.8%. Every Society bottle numbered 108.x is from Allt-a-Bhainne.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
A short way from Dufftown, Allt-a-Bhainne, 'the milk burn', was built by Seagram in 1975 as a modern workhorse: everything in one room, and the whole process runnable by a single person. Its spirit is a principal malt in Chivas Regal, so it is seldom seen under its own name, which makes a cask of its light, clean, floral spirit something of a find. Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard).