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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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June 16, 2022
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Little Trios, in the present day Strathmill
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| We’d like extra love for Strathmill! As a result of speculative manufacturers are boring us to loss of life. We’ll first have a younger one by the honourable SMWS (with a French nickname!), then two indies, one middle-aged, the opposite one in all good age and from good previous Germany our Nachbarn. |
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Strathmill 13 yo 2007/2021 (58.8%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, bourbon hogshead, #100.25, ‘La Pomme Qui Chante’, 270 bottles) 
Actually, not too positive about that poetic nickname, a singing apple is one thing that we have by no means seen or heard, even in France. One thing might have been misplaced in translation… Having stated that, this child was additionally completed in a 1st fill ex-rye hogshead. Color: straw. Nostril: barley, grist, vanilla, caramel cream, nougat and turon. No dangerous issues – however no singing apple in sight. With water: softer, extra on vanilla, pancakes, nougat certainly and butterscotch. Mouth (neat): excellent contemporary deep potent and pungent maltiness. I might suppose that is what you’d get, do you have to resolve to distil Guinness (do not inform me they’re already doing that!) With water: oh wonderful! Pure malty and fruity combo, with just a little espresso, plum jam, Ovaltine and Nescafé. End: lengthy, nonetheless very malty, with tighter oranges popping out. Some form of heavy-duty curaçao. Lemon within the aftertaste. Feedback: simply adore it. I did not precisely get the rye however I might suppose it did its a part of the job. By no means underestimate these Distilleries, it is simply that nobody’s pouring dozens of thousands and thousands of kilos into their advertising.
SGP:651 – 87 factors. |
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Strathmill 24 yo 1990/2015 (55.8%, Chapter 7, sherry butt, cask #5224) 
No image accessible for this older one which I ought to have tried a very long time in the past. Color: white wine. Nostril: totally on barley and apples, gooseberries, ripe kiwis, hints of iron, previous tin field, then moderately cappuccino and nocino. The one factor that is higher than nocino is 2 nocinos. With water: butter beans, white asparagus, malt extract… It will are inclined to lose itself a wee bit. Mouth (neat): all-natural barleyness, with apples and pears, cherries, some pepper and a few nutmeg. With water: no precise adjustments. End: moderately lengthy, maybe a tad too peppery for me. Feedback: we’re really just a little removed from the fabtastic – but youthful – SMWS, but it surely nonetheless is a fairly high quality dram.
SGP:451 – 80 factors.
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Strathmill 30 yo 1991/2021 (51.3%, Whisky-Doris, bourbon hogshead)
The stunning and ever-young 😉 Whisky-Doris from Germany again on Whiskyfun, let’s have fun! Color: straw. Nostril: kicks issues off with just a little espresso and just a little rum, then some common (in the very best sense of that phrase) maltiness, then scones, pancakes, muffins and shortbreads. With water: extra pancakes, crêpes, biscuits, overripe apples and maybe just a few drops of calvados. Mouth (neat): massive malt and wholegrain bread, touches of varnish, virtually just a little acetone, and as soon as once more a sense of averageness (once more, in the very best sense of that phrase). With water: to the core of the barley. Spearmint, peppers, cinnamon, barley syrup, a contact of mint. End: moderately medium, malty, just a little grassier. Peppery aftertaste, a tad gritty. Feedback: a completely un-doped previous Speysider, near nature and to barley. Maybe just a little mental, having stated, but it surely’s true that German philosophy has nothing to show.
SGP:461 – 86 factors. |
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