A subtle, sweet perfumed aroma with soft nutty sherry notes and a moist, rum-soaked Caribbean black cake made this a wonderful nosing dram when neat. On the palate deep, dark and spicy with flavours of chestnuts roasted on an open fire, burnt oranges with charred, sugary rosemary and green figs in Armagnac syrup. With a tiny drop of water, we seared an elk steak in a cast iron skillet and to enjoy it medium rare, marinated in soy sauce, ginger and garlic, and served with Indian butternut squash curry and sweet potatoes.

The Vaults Collection is a selection of the finest and rarest single cask, single malt whisky, set aside from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s most remarkable stocks over the years, and each bottle represents a chance for you to journey back into whisky history, and have the opportunity to experience styles or distilleries that no longer exist. This month, SMWS Malaysia is proud to present Cask No. 76.148 – Grilled Lemon-Garlic Elk Steak, a 32 Year Old Speyside whisky that was distilled in 1987, and spent 30 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, transferred to a 1st fill Oloroso hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.