SMWS Tasting Notes
Colour: Honey blonde
Flavour: Old & dignified

The fresh nose brought us outdoors – wet sand, chalky cliffs
and rock pools with fishing nets catching shellfish and crabs.  We then enjoy starfruit, bananas and
nectarines, interwoven with fresh sea breeze and cooling mentholic air.  There’s clean linen on the line with
seaspray. The taste revealed saltiness, like eating shellfish on the beach or
swimming with your mouth open!  There was
a waxiness too, like citronella candles and seaweed. Bacon and old reels of
button thread also made an appearance. The reduced nose became soapier and savoury;
linen and lux flakes, starch washing and woollen jumpers; pork and baked ham
and brown scallops.  The reduced palate
was soft, clean and sappy - marshmallows on a stick, lemongrass and cumin, and
spicy scallops. Spring water from the Clynemilton burn is used to produce this
fruity, slightly smoky Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

Drinking Tip: Outdoors at the coast

oh, what an amazing dash of agavenectar mixed with honey, oil lingers on the back of the throat… This is why I love Clynelish so much, it must be the nectar of the Gods… 

Nose: found it too closed

Taste: warm and gingery with background sweetness and hit of the sea.

Finish: long and sweet

Thought the age was showing itself too much, too woody.