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| Hello, that is one in every of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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November 23, 2021
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Aberlour on the tasting desk
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One of many fruitiest distillates they’ve in Speyside, in my view, so long as we’re speaking western orchards and never mangos or ardour fruits. Let’s examine what’s arrived…
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Mid-Nineties French advert for Aberlour. ‘It was with out understanding what they had been consuming that Wallace Milroy and his friends determined to award Aberlour. ->
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Aberlour 14 yo ‘Double Cask Matured’ (40%, B, +/-2021) 
Huge in France (and at the moment 32.50€ at Auchan supermarkets). Ex-bourbon plus ex-oloroso, that explains the ‘double’ facet. These statements are actually turn into boring, are they not? Did anybody beat Jura’s ‘Seven Wooden’ but? Color: gold. Nostril: the title’s just a little awful however the spirit is impeccable, malty because it ought to, with some cider, orange truffles, plus certainly many sorts of plums and a few delicate honeyed touches. Opening a family-pack of jelly infants and beans and crocodiles and child Jesuses and stuff. Mouth: the low energy feels now, it is missing voltage and feels just a little wishy-washy. Tea, peelings, paper, flour, leaves, that is it. Wishy-washy certainly. End: quick and drying. Feedback: 43% vol. works so a lot better! Good nostril however the palate’s very disappointing, solely due to that awful energy. Buck up!
SGP:451 – 78 factors. |
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Aberlour 16 yo ‘Double Cask Matured’ (43%, B, +/-2021) 
See? They heard us! (S., you are a ache within the neck). But once more a narrative about bourbon and sherry. Color: deep gold. Nostril: very completely different, a lot nuttier, with even just a little smoke (barbecue, wooden smoke), then walnut wine, amontillado-like notes, touches of menthol, humidor, then figs and raisins, a drop pf cognac, triple-sec, moist Christmas cake, chestnut purée… So all in all, a really pretty nostril, extra profound and wealthy than that of the 14. Mouth: sure, there, some motion eventually, extra roasted nuts, leaves, malty beer, truffles, teas… Maybe some good Assam? Darjeeling? In any case, the 43% vol. work completely and nothing will get flabby this time. End: medium, leafier, drier. Darjeeling certainly. Possibly… Some marmalade within the aftertaste. Feedback: now we’re speaking. Except an A’bunadh…
SGP:451 – 83 factors. |
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Aberlour ‘A’bunadh batch #69’ (61.2%, OB, oloroso butts, 2021) 
We could not strive all of them and we’re at all times behind anyway, however I consider we have tasted twenty of them. At all times a pleasure. Color: deep gold. Nostril: this one’s somewhat acquired extra herbs, lovage, onions, chives, miso, walnuts, soy sauce, crude chocolate, mocha, coconut, macaroons, pistachio nougat… Fantastico, actually. With water: roasted chestnuts, café latte and a wee contact of metallic and leather-based polishes. Why do not Scottish distilleries use previous automobiles to welcome their VIP guests? As they might do in Champagne, with Krug’s Rolls-Royces for instance? Mouth (neat): nut truffles and polish, with a sense of rhum agricole. Was that the plan? However boy is it robust. WIth water: superb, straighter, with as soon as once more a sense of nice rhum, leaves and stems, hay, one thing dry, peelings, citrus skins, bitters… End: lengthy and tight. It’s not a luscious sherry bomb, as some (a lot) earlier batches would have been. Grassy, bitter aftertaste (loses pointe right here). Feedback: most actually one of many higher batches, even when #66, the final one I might strive, was a tad extra to my liking.
SGP:461 – 86 factors. |
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Aberlour 16 yo 2005/2021 (56.7%, OB for La Maison du Whisky, sherry hogshead, cask #214040, 243 bottles)
As everybody would have seen by now, they don’t use any hogsheads in Jerez. However there, why trouble… Color: gold. Nostril: cherries main the pack this time, along with just a little metallic polish (as we present in A’bunadh), gun oil, marrow soup, then somewhat amaretti and maraschino. One thing clearly Italian on this one. Even just a little hazelnut liqueur, a factor that, I consider, solely our Italian associates dare making. With water: you do get some Nut…a certainly. That and soups, bouillons, Bovril/Viandox, malt extract, I would even point out Marmite whereas we’re right here… Mouth (neat): robust and tough, leafy and leathery. Water could also be wanted. With water: may very well be that the A’bunadh is giving this one a tough time and that is my mistake. Cherry cake, bitter teas, espresso and chicory, stout, bitter beers… Certainly it could stay just a little tough and hard. End: somewhat lengthy, malty. Fruit stones, marc… Feedback: hope they will handle to copy these flabbergasting previous ‘dice’ bottlings sooner or later. A particularly superb single cask, only a tad… robust and tough. Ish.
SGP:461 – 85 factors. |
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Aberlour 12 yo 2008/2021 ‘Apollo 15 – LRV’ (59.2%, The Whisky Barrel, 1st fill oloroso sherry hogshead, cask #TWB1016, 263 bottles)
One other lunar bottling, it appears. As a former stamp collector (after I was a child, within the Nineties, proper), I can’t not take pleasure in this type of considering and labelling… Color: gold. Nostril: them and their compadres, they do it fashionable and proper, no doubts about that. Cappuccino, latte, mocha, cassata, raisin rolls, strawberry jam, fig and quince jellies… Boy does this work. With water: cigars, leather-based couches, steaks, inexperienced peppercorns, bell pepper… Properly not completely certain… Mouth (neat): espresso liqueur (Kahlua) and pepper cordial. Both this pepper will get toned down as soon as water’s been added, or it will take over and kill the make, let’s examine… With water: luck was on our facet, this works, however I am nonetheless discovering it a tad leathery and leafy, with just a little an excessive amount of bitterness. These sherry hogsheads you already know… End: lengthy and caramelly, with some pepper and a few leaves. Feedback: truthfully I knew this might occur. Very pretty whiskies throughout, however they might stay just a little tough.
SGP:461 – 85 factors. |
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It was tight however appears like A’bunadh received it; who stated as regular, who?
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