{"product_id":"tomintoul-14-year-old-2010-smws-single-toasted-barrique-89-21-bespoke-brogues-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2025-70cl","title":"Tomintoul 14 Year Old 2010 SMWS Single Toasted Barrique 89.21 Bespoke Brogues Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTomintoul 14 Year Old 2010 SMWS Single Toasted Barrique 89.21 Bespoke Brogues Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 253 bottles produced from a single toasted barrique\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotch Malt Whisky Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView bottle js_itemPageProfile flavour-default\" data-categories='[\"Bottle Archive\"]'\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"productView-description\" id=\"productView-description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we unveiled a bespoke pair of leather brogues, our noses were tickled by pollen, heather blossom and lovage. The palate was Caribbean rum punch, with a fulsome serving of mace, honey and green apple from a leather satchel. Water elevated the honey, and added dragon fruit and pear, while layering wax crayons and fir sap on the nose. The palate too was honey-forward, with a lingering mace to follow and tutti frutti ice cream toped with mint leaves. After 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this to a medium-well toasted second fill American oak hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Tomintoul\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"banner wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"banner-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"banner-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"banner-content-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"introduction\"\u003eSituated on the banks of the Spey’s main tributary, the Avon (pronounced A’an), and taking its name from Scotland’s highest village nearby, Tomintoul is another 1960s distillery whose make has only recently been more widely seen as single malt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pagenav js-fixed\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStarting life as a small site with two stills, the number has since doubled. Its style also appears to have shifted on at least two occasions from the overtly fruity manifestations of its earliest guise to a more cereal-accented make in recent years. A peated variant, bottled as Old Ballantruan, is also now part of the portfolio. Its growing presence in the malt category will hopefully convince more people of its undoubted quality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe distillery was built in 1965 by a pair of whisky-broking firms, Hay \u0026amp; MacLeod and W. \u0026amp; S. Strong, before being folded into the Whyte \u0026amp; Mackay stable in 1973. It remained part of the blending firm until 2000 when it was purchased by Angus Dundee where it performs dual functions as provider of mature spirit for contract blends and under its own guise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e60.2% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tomintoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52792340939090,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/9737\/9666\/files\/Tomintoul14YearOld2010SMWSSingleToastedBarrique89.21BespokeBroguesSpeysideSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2025_70cl.jpg?v=1771970410","url":"https:\/\/whiskysituation.co.uk\/products\/tomintoul-14-year-old-2010-smws-single-toasted-barrique-89-21-bespoke-brogues-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2025-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}