Sold outOct 2025In short · Ardnamurchan (Highland), 9 years.
“The neat nose suggested swimming pools, mineral oils, lemon barley water, waxes, putty, white stone fruits and earthy dunnage warehouse must.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 149.16 is a single cask of Ardnamurchan, in the Highland region, 9 years old, bottled at 63.3%, released in the Oct 2025 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 149.x is from Ardnamurchan.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On the Ardnamurchan peninsula, among the remotest corners of the British mainland, the independent bottler Adelphi built its own distillery in 2014. It runs on hydro power and a biomass boiler fed with timber from the local forest, which also heats its own floor maltings. It makes two West Highland styles side by side, peated and unpeated, both with a salt-and-heather coastal edge. Adelphi's.