Sold outMay 2021In short · Auchentoshan (Lowland), 18 years.
“A wonderful nose neat with plenty to discover; custard creams, melted salted butter, desiccated coconut, marzipan, toasted acorns, sea buckthorn jelly and the list could…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 5.74 is a single cask of Auchentoshan, in the Lowland region, 18 years old, bottled at 54.9%, released in the May 2021 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.