Sold outNov 2025In short · Fettercairn (Highland), 14 years.
“On the nose, the oak barged in like a ringmaster, cracking their whip and introducing a troop of fruity acrobats, jugglers juggling loaves of bread and a couple of…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 94.53 is a single cask of Fettercairn, in the Highland region, 14 years old, bottled at 59.3%, released in the Nov 2025 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.