93.224 Doon Aroon The Toon

Scotch Malt Whisky Society cask 93.224, Doon Aroon The Toon, is an 8 year old single cask single malt Scotch whisky from the Glen Scotia distillery in the Campbeltown region (SMWS distillery code 93). Distilled on 16 June 2016, it was matured in a first-fill ex-bourbon barrel. It was bottled at cask strength, 59.9% ABV in a 700 ml bottle, with an outturn of 221 bottles, and the Society files it under its Oily & coastal flavour profile. Fresh and coastal throughout, with fizzy vitamin tablets, beach pebbles, mint and salt on the nose and white flowers, linen and grassy olive oil on the palate; water adds gorse, lemongrass, wax and cloudy lemonade. Like all Society bottlings, it is presented without chill filtration.

Nose: Vitamin tablets fizzing in soda water, beach pebbles, mint and salt, pasta water and harbour jetty; water adds gorse flower, sandalwood, sea air, lemongrass and preserved lemon in olive oil

Palate: Bright and coastal, with white flowers, starched linen, grassy olive oil, farmhouse cider and sheep's wool; water brings lemon oil, menthol, camphor, wax, cloudy lemonade and shellfish broth

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