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 Fires The Imagination, a 13yo single malt Scotch from Speyside.

SPIRIT NOTES

This one got our thinking juices flowing, with just a few examples including a motorbike gang member’s leather jacket, sour dough pizza marinara and Turkish delight shisha tobacco mix. The taste was truly an experience. Eating a slice of sourdough bread served with herb butter, blue cheese and wild boar salami in the shade of an olive tree on the Mediterranean coast was how one Panellist described it. After reduction we prepared a chocolate espresso martini with dark chocolate cream liqueur, cold espresso and vodka as we sat by the Bosporus Strait overlooking the bridges that connect the orient with the occident. At 10 years of age we combined two hogsheads from the same distillery into this cask for further maturation and marrying.