Sold outNov 2021In short · Allt-a-Bhainne (Speyside), 9 years.
“Limited to 2 bottles per member Passing heathery hillsides and hedgerows, we entered a hut with an unlit wood-burning stove; settling down with lemon barley water, melon…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 108.45 is a single cask of Allt-a-Bhainne, in the Speyside region, 9 years old, bottled at 63%, released in the Nov 2021 Outturn. 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).