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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) each day tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 10, 2022
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Little Duos, immediately Deanston
Madeira vs. Oloroso
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Once more, certainly. Deanston’s grow to be one in all our pet distilleries, if I’ll. Love what they do, even when it is unlikely (unusual casks and such). At all times enjoyable, at all times honest, by no means pretentious.
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Deanston 12 yo 2006/2019 ‘Madeira Cask End’ (55.6%, OB, distillery unique) 
It was clearly robust to do some distillery unique bottlings simply earlier than silly Covid. However I’d suppose the whisky mob’s at all times there to assist them eliminate the stash. Color: straw. Nostril: right-o, mustard, walnuts, wholegrain bread, a contact of apple vinegar, cider for positive, sourdough, leaven, baker’s yeast… Certainly we’re at a bakery. The neighbours are brewers. With water: mead and beer, then walnut wine. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily good. I bear in mind when Glenmo got here up with their very own ‘Madeira’, a very long time in the past, it was already virtually everybody’s favorite. As for the ‘Burgundy’, effectively… However again to this wee Deanston, the candy mustardy contact, mingled with liquorice and slightly pepper liqueur and honey simply work a deal with. Generally you’d consider fortified mead, or chouchen. With water: orange cordial and walnut wine, with a dollop of honey and, effectively, Madeira. End: lengthy, fairly wealthy however with an exquisite dry construction. Figs and really previous riesling. Feedback: I am in a great temper, simply due to this wee whisky.
SGP:561 – 88 factors. |
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Deanston 12 yo 2008/2021 ‘Oloroso Cask Matured’ (52.7%, OB, 13,227 bottles) 
Color: wealthy gold. Nostril: there, extra walnuts, then meats, hams, mutton suet, glutamate, caramel ramens, bitter cherry jam, roasted cassis, beer sauce (carbonnade), and just a few mineral, thick and walnutty oloroso, with slightly overcooked workplace espresso round 7pm, NYPD-style. Like in a criminal offense sequence on the telly. With water: salty, bouillony, meaty. Malt extracts, a contact of Marmite, extra walnut cake, final week’s gravy, meatballs, beef jerky… Mouth (neat): very heavy and thick, dry and concentrated, however fairly bizarrely, it will by no means get cloying. Burnt walnut cake, burnt brownies, a sense of dry molasses, treacle toffee, and simply extra carbonnade flamande. Huge bone-dry oloroso, with simply touches of pencil shavings. With water: chills out, turning into slightly sweeter and jammier, additionally spicier. Ras-el-hanout and pipe tobacco. End: lengthy, this time actually fruitier. Fruitcake and fig wine. Fairly some cracked pepper, paint, oak and cedar woods within the aftertaste. As once we used to suck our pencils at college (tsk tsk). Feedback: actually heavier, however I say it is virtually a draw.
SGP:562 – 87 factors. |
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