39.288 Lawn Mowers Run Amok

Scotch Malt Whisky Society cask 39.288, Lawn Mowers Run Amok In An Orchard, is a single cask single malt Scotch whisky from Linkwood in Speyside (SMWS distillery code 39). Distilled on 5 December 2011, it matured for 11 years in a first-fill ex-bourbon barrel. It was bottled at a cask strength of 61.3% ABV, with an outturn of 218 bottles. The Society files it under its Sweet, fruity & mellow flavour profile. An exuberant nose of fruit candies, cassis, Pink Lady apples and cherry blossom leads to a tingling palate of bubble gum, rhubarb and pineapple. Water adds orange peel, juniper, banana bread and dried apricot, and the finish is lightly chalky with cinnamon and liquorice. Like every Society bottling it is bottled at cask strength without chill filtration.

Nose: Fruit candies, jelly babies, cassis, Pink Lady apple and cherry blossom; water adds orange peel, juniper, banana bread and dried apricot

Palate: Lively and tingly: bubble gum, rhubarb, pineapple and apple-grape soda with biscuit hints; water brings Danish pastry, vanilla, calvados and pomegranate

Finish: Slightly chalky, with cinnamon and liquorice

Serve: Neat, then with a few drops of water to open up the aromas; at full cask strength it rewards patience.