IN BC, AVAILABLE ONLY AT ARC LIQUOR IN KELOWNA

This is the first of the 4-bottle Winter Series set. The next two are 115.33 MERRY CHRISTMAS and 39.307 WELCOME IN, 2025. The last one will appear in January for Burns Night. Collect all four and spell out 'SMWS' on your whisky shelf!

After 10 years in ex-bourbon wood, this was transferred into a 1st fill American oak oloroso hogshead. The nose combined muirburn, burnt straw and pipe racks (smoke, ash, old wood) with black tea, dark chocolate and sticky honey glaze on roast pork. The smoke intensified on the palate, swirling around with roasting coffee, toasted pistachios and pumpkin seeds, golden syrup on burnt toast and a tingling finish of chilli, cardamom and smoked paprika.

The reduced nose found old ship’s timbers and hints of plastic on beach bonfires. The palate now had roasted chestnuts, burnt coconut and apple sauce on five-spice belly pork.