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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 31, 2022
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Little Duos, in the present day Aberlour IB vs OB
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Aberlour is one other favorite at Château Whiskyfun. It was one of many first two Distilleries we have visited with the Malt Maniacs, a very long time in the past. What’s certain is that it was both Aberlour or Glenrothes, each nice locations anyway. What I appear to recollect is that at Glenrothes, they’d been flying the nationwide flags of each considered one of us in entrance of the Distillery! We could not consider our eyes nevertheless it’s true that distillers, within the early days of the Internet, had been nonetheless questioning ‘the way to deal with these unusual folks from the Web’. There’s been excesses in each instructions… However properly, this shall be Aberlour. At the moment and because it was Macallan’s heyday, stumbling upon a Speysider that was ex-bourbon quite than ex-sherry was like crossing the trail of a tomato with wheels (copyright Edmund, Lord Blackadder). Which occurred to us at Aberlour… Having mentioned that, this shall be a sherried expression. However sorry, I really feel like I am babbling on like a running a blog parrot in the present day, so to the whisky please… By the way in which, have I ever informed about… (S., please!)
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Aberlour 12 yo 2008/2021 (52.3%, Maltbarn, sherry cask, 160 bottles) 
Color: gold. Nostril: a quite leafy and leathery one at first, with some inexperienced walnuts, bay leaves and a wee butyric aspect. Fuel, gun smoke, maybe even sheep cheese, rubber… All that earlier than orchard fruits would begin to play their roles. Peaches. With water: bitter cream, mashed celeriac and turnip, then certainly peaches and greengages. Some twin face malt on the nostril. Mouth (neat): uncooked, rustic, strong, bitterish and very leafy. New artisan plum spirit (damsons) and a few form of rubbery inexperienced tea. Or inexperienced tea with a bit of lapsang souchong added to the teapot. With water: nicer, with some grapefruits and gooseberries, plus the standard walnuts. End: lengthy and leafy. Apple peel within the aftertaste, plus a bit of muscovado. Feedback: a tricky man from the nation, a mode that is a bit of uncommon at Maltbarn. Be diplomatic.
SGP:371 – 81 factors. |
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Aberlour 21 yo 1999/2020 (51.2%, OB, chosen by La Maison du Whisky for Jack Tar, Poland, 1st fill American oak barrel, cask #3856, 156 bottles) 
There, a type of uncommon non-sherried ones. I imply, we used to consider they had been uncommon… Color: gold. Nostril: Danishes, lemon tarte (with meringue!), custard, gianduja and earl gray. That is merely excellent. With water: oh, recent croissants, Chablis, honeysuckle, oatcake and chalk. That is all self-explanatory, is it not? Mouth (neat): Wulong tea with a drop of lemon juice (I do know) and numerous pastries and breads. There is a tight, inexperienced and zesty spiciness within the background (maybe a tiny spritz of horseradish sauce) and an ideal grapefruit – mirabelle duet. With two drops of water: excellent, luminous, recent, with a spectacular lemon blossom and recent vanilla duet (recent pods straight from the place they develop). Someday we’ll let you know concerning the means they’ve to make use of to pollinate vanilla and… (S., no, please). End: lengthy, on vanilla cake with mirabelles. Feedback: some sides jogged my memory of a well-known Dufftown Distillery beginning with a B. Wonderful.
SGP:551 – 90 factors.
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