Each month we have a Monthly Pick to highlight an available SMWS release that we think deserves some extra attention, which comes with a promotional price. This month it is Tiki Realm, a 11yo single malt Scotch from Speyside.

SPIRIT NOTES

This was fresh and light, with a good interplay between fruity sweetness and a zingy spice evoking a lemon zest mango salsa sprinkled with dried oregano. The taste was like a big bite into a smørrebrød with prawns and wood sorrel mayonnaise followed by a sweet and sour chicken stir fry. Following the addition of water there was an explosion of tropical fruits in the form of a ‘painkiller’ cocktail, consisting of rum, pineapple and orange juice, cream of coconut and sprinkled with nutmeg. On the palate we chewed on a stick of sugar cane and washed it down by drinking the ‘water’ straight out of a coconut.