Sold outIn short · Nantou (Taiwan), 5 years.
“We built a fire of coconut shells, the fragrant smoke enveloping dried apricots, toasted grapefruit and wild strawberries like a hazy tropical cloud as the shells…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 138.25 is a single cask of Nantou, in Taiwan, 5 years old, bottled at 58.6%. Every Society bottle numbered 138.x is from Nantou.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In Nantou County, at the heart of Taiwan, the state-owned Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation opened a winery and distillery in 1977, turning to malt whisky in 2008. Its single malt, Omar, Gaelic for amber, is double-distilled from English barley, and because the site is also a fruit winery, freshly emptied lychee and plum wine casks can go straight to whisky. Subtropical heat does the rest. TTL's.