To purchase, please ensure you use the same name associated with your SMWS membership. Note that all items priced below $180 require an active SMWS membership. Unauthorized transactions will be refunded and not processed. For items priced at $180 or more, you are eligible for our first-time membership offer. Simply purchase the bottle to join! If you were previously a member or your membership has recently expired, please renew or sign up again at smws.ca. Thank you! At first we found notes of pencil shavings and medicinal herbs, then potpourri, sandalwood, paprika and scented hardwood resins. The cask was clearly dominant here, but with water ... there was more complexity and elegance, bringing notes of mineral oils, date molasses, figs in syrup and natural tar extract. Still quite a "big" dram. The palate when neat displayed a warm rush of oak spices, black tea tannins, balsamic glaze, boiled lime sweets and tea tree oil. With water we noted a generous slice of Iberico ham, treacle sponge cake, pomegranate syrup and winter mulling spices. This was matured for 12 years in a bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.