Sold outJul 2025In short · Old Pulteney (Highland), 11 years.
“We borrowed a descriptor from the perfume industry: aquatic – a smell that reminded us of a mountain or a forest stream mingling with the spicy fusion of white pepper…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 52.49 is a single cask of Old Pulteney, in the Highland region, 11 years old, bottled at 56%, released in the Jul 2025 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 52.x is from Old Pulteney.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In Pulteneytown, the herring quarter of Wick, Pulteney was founded in 1826 and for decades could be reached easily only by sea: barley came in by boat and whisky left the same way, and many of its men also fished. Its water still runs down a lade built by Thomas Telford from Loch Hempriggs. Sea air is credited for the spirit's briny, honeyed, gently oily character. Inver House's.