{"product_id":"macduff-16-year-old-2008-smws-single-px-hogshead-finished-cask-6-78-tis-not-for-you-to-hear-what-i-can-speak-highland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2024-70cl","title":"Macduff 16 Year Old 2008 SMWS Single PX Hogshead Finished Cask 6.78 Tis Not For You To Hear What I Can Speak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMacduff 16 Year Old 2008 SMWS Single PX Hogshead Finished Cask 6.78 Tis Not For You To Hear What I Can Speak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 280 bottles produced from a single bourbon barrel finished in PX. \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 data-categories='[\"Bottle Archive\"]' class=\"productView bottle js_itemPageProfile flavour-default\"\u003e\n\u003carticle id=\"productView-description\" class=\"productView-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003eThe neat nose bristled with slightly pickled dark fruits, then wee hints of bergamot, blood orange and candied citrus peels. The Panel also detected brown bread spread with treacle, chocolate gingers and heather honey. With reduction we found it became lighter, more aromatic and more playful, with notes of custard creams and liquorice. The palate was a little bigger than expected, with a medicinal tang of cough drops and herbal extracts. There was also a little sharp wood spice and ginger. Reduction brought marzipan, chocolate muffins, earthy tobacco notes and a hint of strawberry jam. This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for 10 years before being transferred to a second fill PX hogshead.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Macduff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\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\"\u003eA seaside distillery, Macduff is located in the fishing port of the same name, on the banks of the River Deveron, next to the Moray Firth.\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\u003eMacduff distillery has a classic, clean and functional Delme-Evans design, with the stillhouse being the most intriguing part of the engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn here are five stills – two wash and three spirit – all of which have upward-tilting lyne arms that have a right angled kink in them. The spirit stills also have horizontal shell and tube condensers. The character is nutty (slightly sulphury at new make stage), with quick mashing, short fermentation and cold condensers. It is this last technique which adds weight to the spirit. It could well be that the kink in the lyne arm helps create just enough reflux to contribute a balancing fruitiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern distillery, Macduff (whose whisky is bottled by its owner as either Glen Deveron or The Deveron; Macduff is only used by independent bottlers) was built in 1960 to tap into the post-war whisky boom. The group of Glasgow brokers who were the original owners included Brodie Hepburn [see Tullibardine, Deanston] and it was through them, one imagines, that William Delme-Evans was chosen as architect. Brokers Block, Grey \u0026amp; Block were in charge between 1966 and 1972 when it became part of William Lawson the whisky arm of Martini \u0026amp; Rossi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distillery had been slowly expanding in terms of production throughout its life and its Italian owner upped the number of stills to five in 1990. By then a range of single malts had been released, all under the name Glen Deveron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn keeping with the Italian market’s love of young fresh malts, a five- and eight-year-old were early members of the range. Two years later, Martini merged with Bacardi and in 1995 Macduff became part of the Dewar's stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the William Lawson blend has become a huge seller in Russia, but that hasn’t stopped Dewar’s plans to relaunch the single malt as Deveron. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e57% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macduff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55535653355845,"sku":"MACD16SMWS6.78","price":159.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/9495\/8661\/files\/Macduff16YearOld2008SMWSSinglePXHogsheadFinishedCask6.78TisNotForYouToHearWhatICanSpeakHighlandSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2024_70cl.jpg?v=1756814302","url":"https:\/\/b1yyjg-bk.myshopify.com\/products\/macduff-16-year-old-2008-smws-single-px-hogshead-finished-cask-6-78-tis-not-for-you-to-hear-what-i-can-speak-highland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2024-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation Old","version":"1.0","type":"link"}