41.162 Tasty Tapas And Flamenco Flair

Scotch Malt Whisky Society cask 41.162, Tasty Tapas And Flamenco Flair, is a single cask single malt Scotch whisky from Dailuaine in Speyside (SMWS distillery code 41). Distilled on 28 June 2010, it spent nine years in a seasoned oloroso butt before being transferred to a butt that had been used in a sherry bodega solera, and was bottled at 12 years old. It was bottled at a cask strength of 57.3% ABV, with an outturn of 390 bottles. The Society files it under its Deep, rich & dried fruits flavour profile. Custard pastries, almond biscuits and leather evoke a wood-panelled tapas bar on the nose, and the palate hits hard with dried fruit, caramel, honey, pipe tobacco and warm spice. Water brings brandy-soaked raisins, marmalade and spiced plums. Like every Society bottling it is bottled at cask strength without chill filtration.

Nose: Custard pastries, almond biscuits, new leather boots and a wood-panelled tapas bar; water adds lemony fried fish, demerara and orange-spiced dark chocolate

Palate: Powerful dried fruit, macaroon bar, caramel and honey with pipe tobacco, Bombay mix, leather, cinnamon and clove; water adds brandy-soaked raisins, marmalade, spiced plum and pencil shavings

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