Sold outNov 2024In short · Auchentoshan (Lowland), 20 years.
“A complex fruitiness danced between fermenting apples and cognac before dipping into ginger beer and tiptoeing over to orange skin in an old fashioned cocktail, updated…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 5.118 is a single cask of Auchentoshan, in the Lowland region, 20 years old, bottled at 55.9%, released in the Nov 2024 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 5.x is from Auchentoshan.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On the edge of Clydebank, beneath the Kilpatrick Hills, Auchentoshan has made whisky since 1823 and is one of the very few Scottish distilleries to triple-distil everything. A third, intermediate still lifts the spirit to around 81%, leaving it light, sweet and delicate enough to be called 'the breakfast whisky'. German bombs hit its warehouses in the Clydebank Blitz; the crater now cools its stills as a pond. Suntory's.