This is a Glentauchers from the Morrisons Distillers Carn Mor Strictly Limited range. Glentauchers is a lovely light spirit with loads of creamy softness. Distilled in 2011 and bottled in 2023 as an 11-year-old having spent the last few years of its maturation in Amontillado sherry. A sherry that is not as dry as a fino with a bit more alcohol content to it, but rich in flavours that marry perfectly with this Glentauchers spirit. 

On the nose it opens with rich almonds, amaretti biscuits and a childhood favour of mine Langues du Chat a wonderful vanilla\almond biscuit. The palate is more of the same almonds moving to stewed apricots and the Portuguese custard tarts finishing with a gloriously long creamy mascarpone and vanilla ice cream style. 

Shelf price - £70 

Your Price - £63  

Glenallachie – ohhh yes, this is from the recently released Virgin Oak series – Scottish Oak. Designed around showing how different terroirs effect the flavour of oaks this Scottish Sessile oak (Quercus Patraea) is a tightly grained slow growing oak, grown on the Atlantic coast and then air dried for 36 months to bring out the flavour hidden within. Once dried the staves were toasted to a medium level maximising the use of the sugars within the wood. Rarely do we get to sample whisky from Scottish Oak as it is often too knotted to be used. 

 The nose offers an array of toasted portage oats and barley citrus with lashings of butterscotch and toffee. Cinnamon, ginger, and heather honey are also there offering welcome balance to the sweeter notes before. On the palate heather honey coats the mouth with poached pears and light orchard fruits also apparent. The finish is almost caramelised white chocolate and more of the wonderful butterscotch and toffee. 

Shelf price - £65 

Your price - £58.50