Sold outMay 2023In short · Fettercairn (Highland), 34 years.
“A thick layer of dark cocoa powder coated the soft buttoned leather of old library armchairs while the air was sweet with the scent of clotted cream fudge and juicy…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 94.44 is a single cask of Fettercairn, in the Highland region, 34 years old, bottled at 50.9%, released in the May 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 94.x is from Fettercairn.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At the foot of the Grampians, in the Howe of the Mearns, Fettercairn was founded in 1824 by Sir Alexander Ramsay in a converted corn mill. The estate later passed to the Gladstones, whose son William, the Victorian prime minister, reformed the taxing of whisky. A copper ring around the stills drenches them with water to purify the spirit, which emerges nutty and tropical-fruited. The unicorn on the label is the Ramsays'. Whyte & Mackay's.