FLAVOUR HUNTERS FESTIVAL 2023
This exclusive range of ‘Rare Releases‘ and Single Casks were produced for our Flavour Hunters Festival in May 2023.
“We have a great collection for festival season this year, a mixture of outstanding single cask bottlings complemented by seven small-batch products. Working with between five and 10 different casks in each case gave us the chance to experiment with different flavours. It also allows us to share these whiskies on a more global scale – after all, festivals are all about bringing people together and we want to be able to do that in slightly larger volumes this year. They are also all bottled at cask strength, and each one has its own ‘cask bill’ recipe – a different selection of casks that we’ve worked to put together to create something interesting and special.”
Euan Campbell, SMWS Head of Whisky Creation
Spirit Notes
There was something fishy about these characters, as they arrived with heavy-hitting heather and honey, leaving a collision of teriyaki, peanuts and lapsang souchong tea in their wake. The rev of powerful engines blasted thick engine oil over prawns in butter while they made a quick getaway in the sweet medicinal aromas of a stolen tugboat ambulance. With a few drops of water the mobster lobster arrived, chewing on salted toffee and flexing his mussels with shallots in a cream sauce. A loaded banana went off, scattering oranges, melons and lemons. As clouds of smoke from smouldering thyme cleared, the lobster found himself trapped in trifle, facing a stretch of time in brine behind chocolate bars.
| Special bottlings | Festival 2023 |
|---|---|
| Profile | lightly peated |
| Cask No. | 93 Rare Release |
| Cask(s) | 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrels |
| Region | Campbeltown |
| ABV | 60.2% |
| Age | 8 years |
| Distillation Year | 2014 |
| Outturn | 1276 bottles |
