Sold outSep 2023In short · Glenlivet (Speyside), 16 years.
“Forget tea and biscuits, we were dunking madeira cake in red wine and tearing open a waxed paper bag full of raisins.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 2.138 is a single cask of Glenlivet, in the Speyside region, 16 years old, bottled at 55%, released in the Sep 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 2.x is from Glenlivet.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In a hidden glen above the River Livet, George Smith lit the first legally licensed still in the parish in 1824, a bold act in smuggling country. The whisky he made proved so good, and so widely copied, that it fought in court for the right to be The Glenlivet. It flows smooth and orchard-sweet still, all ripe pear and honey, one of the best-loved single malts on earth and the wellspring from which Speyside's fame first poured. Kept today by Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard).