Sold outSep 2023In short · Loch Lomond (Croftengea) (Highland), 9 years.
“The nose gave a real blast of the outdoors – hay, heather and honeysuckle, elderflower, nettles and mint – along with honey, dried pineapple, pain au chocolat and a…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 122.61 is a single cask of Loch Lomond (Croftengea), in the Highland region, 9 years old, bottled at 61.2%, released in the Sep 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 122.x is from Loch Lomond (Croftengea).
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Croftengea is the smoky outlier among the many spirits Loch Lomond draws from its single site at Alexandria. The same rectifier-necked stills that give Inchmurrin its brightness are here charged with heavily peated malt, and the result is dense, earthy and phenolic, a rarity this far south and this far from the islands. Founded in 1964, the distillery makes more styles than most make expressions. Loch Lomond Group's.