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| Hello, that is one in every of our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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January 28, 2022
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Proper. There hasn’t been a lot Caperdonich (AKA Glen Grant II) round just lately, it is true that the Distillery’s been closed for good fairly some years in the past, in 2002. However they’re making a comeback lately, while final time I checked, they hadn’t restarted the Distillery – effectively it is true that it has been bulldozed in 2010.
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Caperdonich 21 yo 2000/2021 (56.9%, Signatory Classic for The Whisky Change, hogshead, cask #29485, 256 bottles) 
My God, the 12 months 2000, wasn’t that simply yesterday? Color: gold. Nostril: Spanish olive oil (Priorat?) aged in a primary fill bourbon barrel, then blended with blood orange juice and a few almond and pistachio syrups. Some kirschness (which is said to these almonds), additionally just a few common 4-oil combo. With water: ceps and chanterelles stewed in acacia honey and pear juice. Or one thing like that. Mouth (neat): oh, however that is extraordinarily fashionable! Some tight gingery candy oak, touches of bananas and coconut, curry, butterscotch and plum sauce. Some form of rejuvenation having taken place, maybe? With water: water brings out oak spices in abundance. I am most definitely improper, however wasn’t this just lately reracked in new oak? End: somewhat lengthy, candy and spicy. Yuzu and ginger. Feedback: tremendous good however it’s a fashionable reinterpretation, except I am improper as soon as extra. I believe I am going to retire right into a convent – effectively I am certain they’d by no means need me in anyway.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Caperdonich 21 yo 2000/2021 (55%, WhiskySponge, 260 bottles)
Color: mild gold. Nostril: I do not fairly know into which gap we should always put these Caperdonichs. It is a unusual feeling, and I am certain it is me, however I simply do not appear to handle to outline ‘a method’ right here. Whereas, I am certain we agree, life is all about type. Coconut, butter pears, golden scrumptious, sunflower oil, candy maize, pancakes, then sourer woods and herbs. Plain yoghurt. With water: chalk and cactus and ginger. Woolite. Tarter than the TWE. Mouth (neat): let’s be sincere, this is excellent. We’re really very near the Signatory for TWE. Oak spices, ginger, nutmeg, zests, ginseng, candy curry… With water: good enjoyable with tiny citrus fruits and any herbs that might remind you of mint whereas not being mint. Stuff that you simply collect and chew within the wild. End: identical, on yuzu and ginger. The aftertaste is extra syrupy. Feedback: excellent shtuff for certain, it is simply that these infants lose me a wee bit. I simply can’t appear to handle to categorize them.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Caperdonich 23 yo 1997/2021 (60.1%, HNWS Taiwan, hogshead, cask #2949, 186 bottles) 
In response to the label, that is some form of kung-fu fighter, so let’s stay cautious… Color: gold. Nostril: somewhat rounder, extra on truffles, scones, brioches, biscuits… Now at 60%+, let’s be extra-careful. With water: elegant citrus popping out. Tarte au citron with meringue, identical with rhubarb, kumbawa, elderberries… add chalk, add plaster, add weissbeer… This nostril is outstanding. Who’s carried out this bottling for the very honourable HNWS? Mouth (neat): a better league, positively. Gorgeous pink grapefruits, citrons, pink rhubarb… Oh wow. However then once more, 60%+. With water: a tad on the richer aspect, however in any other case impeccably lemony. Finger lime, horseradish, kiwi cream… End: stays recent, lemony, and smiling for a fairly very long time. S.m.i.l.e. Feedback: woo-hoo! So, who did do that bottle for our dearest buddies in Taiwan? You will have seen that I have not even talked about their very good Wulong teas.
SGP:561 – 88 factors. |
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Caperdonich 20 yo 1997/2018 (48.6%, La Distillerie Générale, cask #6502, 35cl, 468 bottles, +/-2018) 
This appears to be a peated Caperdonich. La Distillerie Générale is a wee collection by Pernod-Ricard, some form of own-IB line harbouring solely their very own spirits (malts, cognacs…) Color: white wine. Nostril: fairly costal and recent, with ashes and seashore hearth coating inexperienced apples and some inexperienced curry powder. Whelks, maybe, plus some form of smoked chartreuse. With honest apologies to chartreuse lovers. Mouth: typical peaty unpeater, within the type of some Benriachs or different trials made on the mainland. Proper, not Brora. Tends to turn into very ashy certainly, drying, gritty, scraping the again of your tongue a wee bit, somewhat salty as effectively. Touches of paraffin, not a lot fruitiness. However I discover it good. End: medium, actually very ashy. Feedback: these peated Caperdonichs have been very effectively made however then once more, I might say it was neither Islay, nor Brora.
SGP:365 – 82 factors. |
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Caperdonich 24 yo 1992/2017 (46.7%, Duncan Taylor, The Octave, cask # 4113283)
A tiny oak-doped outturn right here, however you by no means know… It is to be remembered that Duncan T. had had a number of luminous previous Caperdonichs from their ex-Abe Rosenberg inventory. Color: gold. Nostril: oh effectively, that labored. No Ikea-y oaky extravaganza, somewhat a refined natural mixture that might remind us of some previous ‘Tarragone’ yellow chartreuse. Hey-hey! Solely wee touches of coconut, chamomile, lemon tarte with meringue, stewed rhubarb, then wormwood and woodruff. That is all fairly good – an octave, you say? Mouth: excellent. Natural teas, lime, thyme, honeysuckle, pastis, absinth, verbena, then some mentholy honey of some kinds… It is simply that it might are likely to turn into somewhat bitter and critically gritty. Bitter herbs, inexperienced pepper, cinnamon mints… End: lengthy however frankly bitter this time. I am unsure this child might stand this a lot oak on the long term. Feedback: a really fantastic dram, it is simply that the oak would are typically keen to take over after a short time, somewhat unsurprisingly. However it began somewhat marvellously.
SGP:471 – 81 factors. |
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Maintain on, we have been additionally having this…
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Caperdonich 19 yo 1977/1997 (57.5%, Cadenhead, Genuine Assortment, sherry wooden) 
Cadenhead have had a number of 1977s, however we had by no means tried this one. Color: darkish amber. Nostril: oh, previous Swiss cheese and re-fermented PX or one thing. Grocery store parmesan cheese and excessive vinegars. In brief, WAR in your glass. However peace is close to, I am certain… With water: pemican, bresaola, chilli-flavoured beef jerky, prune liqueur, stale mead, steel polish… I imply, actually, that is doom-metal-black-hardcore sherried malt whisky on the nostril. However you by no means know, the palate could be extra Vivaldi-y. Mouth (neat): no, it is enormous, terrifying, monstrously acetic, prune-y, balsamic, tarry and simply horrifying. Not a lot whisky left on this ueber-extreme concoction. With water: no! Useless animals and off embrocations, rotten tars, burnt plastics, bitter liquorices… That is Dante’s Inferno, solely even worse. End: not brief sufficient. Ten occasions overcooked workplace espresso. Feedback: effectively, there was a 18 yo 1977/1996 at 57.7% that had been beautiful in my e-book (WF 91) however this time, I might say hardly ever has such a liquid horror been encountered within the historical past of mankind. Okay, possibly durian juice combined with natto, Starbucks’ White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino and Bud Mild Chelada??… Now it isn’t inconceivable that some issues have occurred with the bottle or the pattern, in order at all times with previous bottlings, please take any tasting notes with a grain of salt.
SGP:182 – (no factors) |
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Higher cease now, earlier than we begin to scratch the underside…
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