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Miltonduff 29 Year Old 1983 SMWS Single Bourbon Cask 72.25 A Welcome Home Dram SMWS 30th Anniversary Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2013) 75cl
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Miltonduff 29 Year Old 1983 SMWS Single Bourbon Cask 72.25 A Welcome Home Dram SMWS 30th Anniversary Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2013) 75cl

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Miltonduff 29 Year Old 1983 SMWS Single Bourbon Cask 72.25 A Welcome Home Dram SMWS 30th Anniversary Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2013) 75cl

1 of 174 bottles to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society established in 1983

This was only released in USA so a little more whisky at 75cl instead of 70cl.
It is such a delight to see some of the really early editions of the SMWS single cask bottlings. Even better to drink them!

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society was 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.

It 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!

The 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.

These older labels from the first runs are mostly with distillation methods that include direct heat which was replaced with steam for many distilleries for environmental reasons changing the taste of whisky forever. It'll get real interesting when nuclear fusion is used to distil whisky. We might glow green for a few weeks after we drink the stuff. Who knows.... but all we know is that the old stuff has a musky taste that is VERY welcomed by people nowadays trying to time travel through whisky's past.

TASTING NOTES

Early aromas of polish, varnish and glue faded, replaced by homey, welcoming smells of pastry tarts, shortbread and brioche, with abundant sweetness (ice-cream, marzipan, Caramac, spun sugar, honeycomb) – long maturation declaring itself through burlap, pepper, sauna wood, liquorice and humbugs.

The palate was fruity, sweet and spicy (fruit cake, buttery Peshawari naan, rhubarb crumble, vanilla, poached pears, clove, Brazil nuts). The reduced nose found lemon sponge, stem ginger in syrup and gardens after rain. The palate became more delicate – lemon and camomile tea and cherry Bakewell with the light bitterness of apricot stones and willow.

About Miltonduff

A very fresh, floral new make character shows Miltonduff to be a charming, light single malt, perfect for adding top notes to the restrained and elegant Ballantine’s blend. Its palate has a succulent texture.

Miltonduff was, briefly, part of Allied Distiller’s Caledonian Malts range (alongside Laphroaig, Tormore, Scapa and Glendronach) but other than a limited edition 18-year-old cask strength bottling, no official releases have taken place under Chivas Brothers' ownership. Licensed bottlings are made under the auspices of Gordon & MacPhail. Some Mosstowie (see below) also occasionally surfaces.

In July 2017 Miltonduff was released as a 15-year-old single malt (alongside expressions from Glentauchers and Glenburgie) under the Ballantine’s brand.

One wonders what the monks would have made of it. Moonshining was commonplace in the surroundings of Pluscarden Abbey in the smuggling era of the late 18th and early 19th century. Whether any monastic distillation ever took place is unknown – the original monastery fell into ruin in the early 17th century, but was restored in 1948 and is now the only medieval monastery still inhabited by monks. Distillation certainly took place at Milton Farm where the abbey’s old meal mill once stood.

Miltonduff (the suffix comes from Duff family which owned the estate) went legal in 1824 and by the end of the century was one of the largest producers in Scotland, making in excess of one million litres a year and using triple distillation (an unusual technique for Highland/Speyside distilleries).

Its next landmark came in 1936 when it was bought by Canadian distiller Hiram Walker which was beginning its Scottish expansion (Ballantine’s, Dumbarton).

In 1964, a pair of ‘Lomond’ stills was installed, producing a malt which was named Mosstowie. The stills operated until 1981. A significant expansion in 1974 saw capacity increased to more than 5m litres per annum with three pairs of stills now operating. In 2005 it became part of Chivas Brothers.

49.9% ABV

75cl

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