Sold outIn short · Ardnamurchan (Highland), 6 years.
“A pleasant soft vanilla aroma greeted the Panel before the scent of freshly cut pine trees, gentle spices and a hint of sea salt took centre stage.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 149.4 is a single cask of Ardnamurchan, in the Highland region, 6 years old, bottled at 61.6%. 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.