46.155 A Dram For Party Animals

Scotch Malt Whisky Society cask 46.155, A Dram For Party Animals, is a single cask single malt Scotch whisky from Glenlossie in Speyside (SMWS distillery code 46). Distilled on 14 March 2008, it spent 13 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before a first-fill port barrique took over, and was bottled at 17 years old. It was bottled at a cask strength of 52.3% ABV, with an outturn of 251 bottles. The Society files it under its Ripe fruits & honey flavour profile. A celebratory nose of strawberry wine, kir royale and rosé champagne leads to craft cola, dried cranberries and cherry-liqueur chocolates on the palate. Water makes it velvety and jammy with red fruit, before a slightly savoury finish. Like every Society bottling it is bottled at cask strength without chill filtration.

Nose: Strawberry wine, kir royale, rosé champagne, new shoes, sugared almonds and coconut jam sponge; water adds sugar cane, red liquorice, bubble gum and dragon fruit

Palate: Craft cola, dried cranberry and sugared fennel with tobacco, old roses and cherry-liqueur chocolates; water makes it velvety and jammy with red fruit

Finish: Slightly savoury, with honey-roast parsnips and prosciutto

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