Sold outDec 2023In short · Auchroisk (Speyside), 10 years.
“The nose started with Danish butter cookies, crème brûlée, banana split and ice cream with toffee sauce, before veering to ginger biscuits, Christmas incense and new oak…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 95.94 is a single cask of Auchroisk, in the Speyside region, 10 years old, bottled at 60.5%, released in the Dec 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 95.x is from Auchroisk.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Auchroisk exists because of a spring. In the early 1970s Justerini & Brooks found that Dorie's Well, near Mulben, ran with water much like their Glen Spey's; they test-distilled it, liked what they tasted and built on the spot, and spirit first flowed in 1974 for the J&B blend. The result is soft, malty and orchard-fruited. Its Gaelic name, the shallow ford across the red stream, once struck marketers as unpronounceable. Diageo's.