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SMWS 149.5: Ardnamurchan

“Fire festival” · Past release, no longer on sale
Fire festival - SMWS 149.5Sold outMar 2023
149.5

Fire festival

SMWS regionHighland
Age7 years
ABV61.7%
Cask1st fill ex-oloroso butt
SpiritMalt Whisky
Distillery from SMWS code 149
DistilleryArdnamurchan
RegionHighland

In short · Ardnamurchan (Highland), 7 years.

“The nose had smoke from burning hay, waxed jackets, linseed oil and a trip to the seaside, with smoked mackerel and prawns on a beach barbecue.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS

SMWS 149.5 is a single cask of Ardnamurchan, in the Highland region, 7 years old, bottled at 61.7%, released in the Mar 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 149.x is from Ardnamurchan.

How the price compares
At £85, this 7-year-old cost more than 8 of the 11 Ardnamurchan bottlings aged 5–9 released 2021–2025 that we hold. They ranged from £65 to £85, with a median of £79.
Shaded: their range · line: this bottleRelease prices, not adjusted for inflation

Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.

About Ardnamurchan

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.

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