A tasty treat — both our 2025 and 2024 Gathering bottles available in one fantastic bundle. Cask 95.105 Into the carpenter’s kitchen (selected by our Marketing Manager Adam Ioannidis), and Cask 59.86 The beneficence of bees (selected by our Branch Director Matt Bailey). Only 20 available of this bundle AND each purchase gives you 2x entries to our October member competition where you could win a full set of UK-exclusive SMWS whiskies bottled for our UK venues!
Aussie Gathering Duo (Bundle)
Original price was: $398.00.$389.00Current price is: $389.00. inc. GST
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Description
Cask 95.105 Into the carpenter’s kitchen (2025 Gathering Bottle)
Watching as a distinguished carpenter sprinkled lavender flowers over an apple turnover, we noticed a platter of honeycomb chunks topped with vanilla pods. To taste, we were gifted the texture of runny honey, with flavours of blancmange and freeze-dried strawberries. Water warms the dram. Oven-fresh apple strudel, baked orange and vanilla ice cream with mace and dark cherry jam delighted the nose, while the palate was Belgian fries, truffle mayo and oregano. It had a dry finish. After 11 years in an ex-bourbon barrel, we transferred this to a first fill, heavily toasted, medium charred barrel for the remainder of its maturation.
Cask 59.86 The beneficence of bees (2024 Gathering Bottle)
The initial nose was dominated by bakery notes, from well-fired rolls and treacle scones to sugar buns. We also got heather honey, peach melba and new cask staves. The attractive and inviting palate had us smacking our lips to the sweet flavours of dark chocolate coconut bars, digestive biscuits, rice pudding and chocolate-coated brazils; the finish was a warming flourish of black pepper, chilli and cardamom. The reduced nose encountered iced caramels, marshmallows and sugared almonds, perfumed candles and pine sawdust. The palate now combined waxy honeycomb and iced gingerbread with liquorice, linseed oil, paprika and oak.
