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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Black Friday Offer Is Now On!

November 21, 2022 by Gary Leave a Comment

Magical membership moments and the power of togetherness, to make memories and new friends!


The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Black Friday Offer!


Save £15 when you buy an SMWS Membership and get a Mystery Malt for £45!

Valid from 21.11.22 to 27.11.22

The SMWS is a truly unique experience – they are a whisky club like no other!

They bottle exceptional and colourful whiskies that are ever-changing and exclusive to their members with over 20 released every month and a selection available online from over 120 distilleries.

Their venues are always dressed to impress!

An SMWS Membership is the gift that keeps on giving, 12 months of whisky fun and entertainment – the ultimate experience for the whisky lover. With limited numbers and playful tasting notes, SMWS rare whiskies also make the most unique and fun gift. Unlikely to be given by anyone else and guaranteed to impress.

Their Members’ Rooms are just as special as their whisky and together, deliver a one-of-a-kind magical experience that truly comes alive during the winter season! Christmas is THE time of the year to enjoy the most magical membership moments and the power of togetherness, to make memories and new friends, create conversation and to add spirit to the season.

Their venues are always dressed to impress, with tasting events unlike anything else AND of course, there’s limited-edition bottles with creative titles and tasting notes that are just perfect for gifting, sharing and sparking conversation around the dinner table or comfy armchair. And of course, what do you get the whisky lover that has everything – discovery of the world’s most entertaining whisky club, with SMWS membership!

Explore Christmas at the SMWS with these Useful links:-

  • Membership and Gift Membership options (including Mystery Malt bundle offers)
  • Advent Calendar
  • Christmas collections and gift ideas (which change regularly!)
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About The SMWS

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a club unlike any other.

As well as being a place to connect with other like-minded whisky lovers, they are also internationally renowned for their mission: “to provide our members with an adventurous and fun journey of discovery of the world’s widest collection of single cask whiskies.”

Conceptualised in the late 70’s and established in 1983, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, now 35 years old, has branches and partners bars in 19 countries globally. The Society has a selection of over 500 casks every year, each cask yielding a few hundred or less whisky bottles which are unique to that cask.

Rather than name their Whiskies after the distillery, the Society has a coding system. The Society also creates fantastic tasting notes summaries for their Whiskies and other bottles. The whiskies are straight from the cask single malt, undiluted, without chill-filtration or colouring at cask strength.

More recently the Society has been named Independent Bottler of the Year in Whisky Magazine’s prestigious Independent Bottlers’ Challenge (IBC) competition.

Filed Under: Black Friday, Christmas, News, Offers, Smws, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Sampling The Whisky Exchange “Black Friday” Malt 2020 – A Little Bit Of Everything For Everybody!

November 27, 2020 by Gary Leave a Comment

The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Malt 2020!

An Exclusive limited edition 22 year old whisky
– specially for Black Friday!

For the fourth year running The Whisky Exchange has unveiled a limited-edition single malt whisky to celebrate Black Friday 2020!

Bottles customarily sell out in under an hour!

With bottles customarily selling out in under an hour, these Black Friday whisky releases have become more and more successful each year.

After scouring the Scottish Highlands for something exceptional, The Whisky Exchange located a distillery near the Speyside borders.

The distillery is known for its distinctively smoky style that sets it apart from its neighbours, making this whisky highly sought-after by whisky fans around the world.

This one-off, smoky 22-year-old Highland whisky is a complex yet well-balanced dram, priced at fantastic value for money. This is set to put a smile on the face of everyone who is lucky enough to get their hands on a bottle!

Customers want something different on Black Friday and we’re the only whisky specialist that produces its own special bottling for the day. Our customers trust us, so while nobody knows what to expect when we reveal our Black Friday whisky, they take a chance on it, and for good reason: we’re well-known for finding very nice whiskies.

Plus it’s a bit of fun!
– Sukhinder Singh: co-founder of The Whisky Exchange

Only 1308 bottles are available

The Whisky Exchange has kindly sent me a sample to try (Thanks @WhiskyExchange!).

So, what did I think? Here are my tasting notes …

Tasting Notes – The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Malt 2020 (50.5%)

Distilled at … The Scottish Highlands (That’s all we know!)
Aged for 22 years.
Only 1,308 bottles are available.
£99.95 (plus £4.95 with gift tube)


Nose: Lots of apples, toffee, hints of orange, peat and old waxy furniture.

Palate: Creamy apple, hints of smoke but not too much. Then there’s cane sweetness with a little pineapple to top it all off!

Finish: Robust spiciness with apple sweetness. Wisps of peat and smoke but it’s sort of hiding for me! Smokey dryness at the end.

Overall: An enjoyable dram with a little bit of everything for everybody.

Eminently fitting for this time of year because, of course, it’s this time of year that we should be able to enjoy a little bit of everything … for everybody!

Filed Under: Black Friday, Christmas, News, Sampling, The Whisky Exchange, Whisky tasting

Sampling The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Malt 2019 – Patience Required – But The Wait Is Certainly Worth It!

November 28, 2019 by Gary Leave a Comment

The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Malt 2019!

An Exclusive limited edition 21 year old whisky for
Black Friday!

Set your alarm clocks and get a good nights sleep tonight!

Only 1,800 bottles available!

Why?

Because at 06.00 GMT on Friday 29th. November The Whisky Exchange are releasing their Exclusive limited edition 21 year old whisky for Black Friday!

Early birdness is a must though as previous editions have sold out VERY quickly, hence the alarm clocks and an early night!

This one-off single malt (limited to just 1,800 bottles) has been bottled exclusively for The Whisky Exchange from a handful of outstanding casks of whisky distilled at a secret distillery – and at a great value-for-money price.

“Founded in 1810, this mystery whisky-maker sits between Forres and Elgin in Speyside, and is known for making a light and elegant style of whisky which is rarely seen as a single malt.”
– The Whisky Exchange

Way more fun than any Black Friday event in the known universe(!) this one is a genuine never-to-be-repeated purchase of the year!

The Whisky Exchange has kindly sent me a sample to try (Thanks @WhiskyExchange!).

So, what did I think? Here are my tasting notes …

Tasting Notes – The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Malt 2019 (53.1%)

Distilled at … Glenburgie Distillery??? (Just guessing!)
Aged for 21 years
1,800 70cl bottles available – limited to two per customer.
£79.95


Colour: Very pale straw.

Nose: This dram gives up it’s secrets quite slowly so patience is required!
Light, tropical fruitiness, iced tea, green apples and much later on – thick vanilla fudge.

Palate: Sweet tropical fruits with a nice hint of bitter seville oranges and chocolate. There’s also some creamy vanilla, cloves and a dusting of cinnamon spice – very nice!

Finish: Quite a dark, fiery finish but that lovely chocolate bitter orange continues coupled with tropical sweet loveliness. The sweet fruit gets stronger and more prevelant the longer you leave it in the glass – if you have that much will power!
Quite a dry finish at the end.

Overall: This is a lovely dram, perfect for Christmas and the winter months after that. The tropical fruit is a happy reminder of sunnier days past and looking forward to sunnier days ahead.
The spice, chocolate and oranges are a perfect match for Christmas.
It’s a slow burn dram though that needs time to develop – but the wait is certainly worth it!

Filed Under: Black Friday, Sampling, The Whisky Exchange, Whisky tasting

The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Whisky 2018 – Stay Cosy & Buy A Dram Online!

November 23, 2018 by Gary Leave a Comment

It’s An Orkney 18 Year Old!

NOW Available! The Whisky Exchange Black Friday Whisky 2018: An Orkney 18 Year Old!

Now a firm tradition at The Whisky Exchange, their limited-edition Black Friday Whisky is now on sale!

Last year’s limited-edition Black Friday Malt sold out in 20 minutes flat!

A one-off single malt that has been bottled exclusively for The Whisky Exchange by Elixir Distillers from an unnamed Orkney distillery.

Described as an “… 18-year-old dram with the gently smoky character typical of the distillery, autumnal notes and a hint of festive flavour.”

There are only 1400 bottles available and a 70cl. bottle is priced at £69.95. If it’s anything like previous years this dram won’t last long (last year’s limited-edition Black Friday Malt sold out in 20 minutes flat!) so you need to be quick if you want to catch this.

The Whisky Exchange has kindly sent me a sample to try (Thanks Whisky Exchange!). So, what did I think? Here are my tasting notes …

Tasting Notes – Black Friday 2018: Orkney 18 Year Old Single Malt Whisky (54.6%)


Nose: Sweet sherry hit with red apples. There’s a little smoke (just a hint), dark chocolate, spicy fruits and aromas of rain soaked undergrowth. After a while there’s creamy vanilla caramels.

Palate: A rich, sweet, tempered peaty cocktail with some burnt wood smoke, a little orange and dark choc

Finish: Fiery pepper with a fiesty dark kick that warms the cockles! It’s held in check by some chocolate orange sweetness. A dry tobacco finish with a pinch of salt tops the whole thing off.

Overall: Now this is a black friday deal I can get behind!
It may not be reduced to a ridiculous price but you do have the opportunity to get hold of a classy limited edition dram – certainly a bargain in itself!

So Stay Cosy This Black Friday – Buy A Dram Online!

Filed Under: Black Friday, Sampling, The Whisky Exchange, Whisky tasting

Black Friday Deals at The Whisky Barrel!

November 23, 2012 by Gary Leave a Comment

Black Friday Deals at The Whisky Barrel

Black Friday Deals at The Whisky Barrel

Black Friday 2012 Deals at TheWhiskyBarrel.com

The Whisky Barrel is launching Black Friday Scotch Deals with unprecedented savings of up to 50% on selected whiskies for one day only!

Be at the front of the stampede of malt lovers on Black Friday!

Save on Scotch from the Highlands & Islands including Bruichladdich, Laphroaig, Glenfarclas, Dalmore, Arran, Glendronach and many more!

It all starts at 9AM!!!

Filed Under: Arran, Black Friday, Bruichladdich, Dalmore, Glendronach, Glenfarclas, Highland, Island, Laphroaig, News, The Whisky Barrel

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