Sold outIn short · Auchentoshan (Lowland), 28 years.
“The nose evokes old wood – grandparents’ dresser, roast chestnuts, creosoted sheds or the mischief-filled forest of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 5.73 is a single cask of Auchentoshan, in the Lowland region, 28 years old, bottled at 61.1%. 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.