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| Hello, that is considered one of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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June 30, 2022
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Extra stuff and issues from Scotland
Extra whiskies and mixtures of unsure origins, most likely all good however an unsigned Vincent Van Gogh, nevertheless lovely, isn’t precisely a Vincent Van Gogh, is it? (higher drop attempting metaphoriation for some time, S.) (and sorry to your eyes)
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The Epicurean ‘Ruby Port Cask’ (48%, Douglas Laing, Lowland Blended Malt, 684 bottles, 2021) 
A curious single cask, not too certain about what that is, a real blended malt or a ‘teaspooned ‘single’ in disguise? It appears that there have been different batches. Color: pale apricot. Nostril: an ideal instance of a average conflict between some sweetish pink wine and malt whisky, even when that one was, apparently, simply ‘only a lighter Lowlander’. I am not saying this is not likeable, however I discover the pink berries solution to a lot within the entrance, like in, say some flavoured tea. Liqueurs, grenadine, hibiscus syrup… Mouth: more durable. Pickles fruits, bell pepper, raspberries, Campari, cloves… It will slightly cool down over time and since virtually built-in, however the common type right here is just too removed from my preferences. Bear in mind, one man’s style and preferences. End: lengthy, peppery, spicy. Cloves, liquorice wooden and ginger within the aftertaste. Feedback: you can not not marvel what was mistaken with this Lowlander within the first place, and why it was essential to season it like a Doritos. Nonetheless downable, having mentioned that.
SGP:661 – 76 factors. |
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Coig Deicheadan 17 yo (46.5%, Chorlton Whisky, Blended Scotch, sherry butt, 211 bottles, 2019) 
A real blended malt, not only a teaspooned single, harbouring, apparently, some Bunnahabhain 1968 and numerous youthful elements, specifically Macallan, Highland Park and Glenturret, whereas all the pieces right here sounds very ‘Highland Distillers’. Color: amber. Nostril: malt, muffins, pipe tobaccos and numerous honeys, all the pieces in complete sync, with extra complicated floor that might contain metallic polish, beef jerky and bresaola, mosses, walnuts, drops of sourer wines, brown ale, mead and touches of mustard… You do really feel the Glenturretness, if I’ll. Mouth: you do really feel it on the palate too, there’s some previous walnuts and mustard, leather-based, bits of cigarette tobacco, then rounder elements, honeys, chocolate, butterscotch, glazed chestnuts, raisins… End: slightly lengthy, on raisins stewed in heavy beer. Goes nicely with rooster. Feedback: naturally, realizing about what’s inside with out realizing in regards to the proportions is a bit of ineffective, but it surely’s nonetheless good when the whisky’s as good as this one good whisky. All proper.
SGP:451 – 86 factors. |
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Secret Speyside Distillery #1 9 yo 2007/2016 (51.7%, The Boutique-y Whisky Firm, sherry, 1220 bottles) 
Stated to be Glenfarclas, however since we now have no useless proof, we have put it into the hotchpotch. Color: deep amber, very Glenfarclas (certain malts have particular colors, caramel or not caramel!) I could also be joking… Nostril: barely flinty at first, then filled with toffee and roasted peanuts, with whiffs of fern and actually a variety of chocolate. I can’t see why this would not be Glenfarclas. With water: hay and half-burnt grasses, plus a double-espresso. Sorry, espresso doppio. Mouth (neat): wealthy, deeply sherried as is usually the case with this make, very chocolaty, with a variety of Demerara sugar, roasted honey-glazed nuts and 7 family-packs of sentimental nougat. Glorious. With water: geared in the direction of rhum agricole of nice provenance. No no no we cannot point out Neisson. End: lengthy and wealthy. Honeys. Glorious. Feedback: glorious. It could have benefitted from just a few years in glass.
SGP:651 – 88 factors. |
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Wait we have additionally bought this one from the identical secure…
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Secret Speyside #2 25 yo (51.6%, The Boutique-y Whisky Firm, sherry, 2415 bottles, 2018)
Two-thousand-four-hundred-and-fifteen bottles, that is slightly lots. Color: mild gold. Nostril: certain the Van Gogh is unsigned but it surely’s nonetheless a Van Gogh. I do know what I am attempting to say. Fats, oily spirit, with an exquisite, deep fruitiness and certainly fat and waxes. It is a distillate-driven single malt with an old-school type that might please many. With water: these mirabelles and tangerines lead us straight to Dufftown and I would not cry wolf, must you declare that the title right here would begin with B and finish with nie. Bear in mind the knights who say ‘nie’? Mouth (neat): terrific, beginning with numerous bonbons and the tiniest contact of coconut ever, happening with liqueurs and cordials of various types and origins (that does not inform a lot, S.) With water: mirabelle and quince jams, plus orange cake and a few pale ale. End: fantastic, lengthy, a bit of extra on candied citrus. Mirabelles within the aftertaste. Feedback: very beautiful drop.
SGP:551 – 89 factors. |
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Blended Malt 7 yo 2013/2021 ‘Ukraine Bottling’ (65.6%, North Star Spirits, butt, bottled completely for the folks of Ukraine, 500 bottles, 2022)
It says ‘From Scotland with love’, we may add ‘From Alsace with compassion’. What’s extra I do know for a indisputable fact that that is honest and under no circumstances any ‘yellow and blue washing’, as may be seen at another locations. Color: full gold. Nostril: just a few pencil shavings at first, then only a excellent nutty, roasted, caramelised unfolding, with a really excellent younger maltiness. We hope we’ll quickly have the ability to share these marvellous drops freely with our Ukrainian associates. With water: virtually all on malt, plus flints and simply previous iron instruments. Wrecked Russian armoured autos? Mouth (neat): butterscotch and cinnamon liqueur, deep malty beer, chocolate and candied fruits, cinnamon cookies… And, nicely, 65% plus. With water: glorious, reminding me a little bit of that Mac 10 c/s of previous, actually. End: lengthy, malty, wealthy, feeling 15 slightly than simply 7. Extra butterscotch and tea with milk. Thoughts you, who would drink tea with milk? Feedback: Slava Ukraini! Ought to any associates in Russia nonetheless learn little Whiskyfun (there was slightly many), I simply hope you may do away with the butchers finally, and that we’ll quickly have the ability to share drams once more too.
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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Speyside Malt 14 yo 2005/2019 (50.4%, Maltbarn, sherry, 175 bottles) 
Color: deep gold. Nostril: feels a bit like an ex-peater cask with just a few mineral touches and a mossy character on prime of the anticipated malty and caky profile. Backyard earth and chalk. With water: uncooked maltiness, grasses… Some half-sherried Mortlachs might be like this. Mouth (neat): agency, barely smoky, mineral, you might virtually say Highland Park, with these vegetal honeys. Some mossy bitterness too, chlorophyl maybe… With water: improves mucho, will get simpler, saltier, extra bouillony… Slightly leather-based. End: medium, grassier, slightly rustic. Rustic-like. Marginally rustic. Feedback: wants your water and your $100,000 digital pipette, delivers then.
SGP:462 – 84 factors. |
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Speyside Area 26 yo 1995/2021 (51.9%, Maltbarn, sherry, 140 bottles)
Somebody certain is/was an incredible photographer in Maltbarn’s household. Maltbarn is about nice whisky, but it surely’s additionally a bit of bit about arts and images, which I discover implausible slightly than all the time taking part in it ‘Moon Import’, with all due respect to sig. Mongiardino. Color: gold. Nostril: age counts, numbers depend, and that is simply one other proof (as they used to say on the Division of Strategies and Statistical Methodologies, scr*w exceptions!) Great panettone topped with caramel sauce, home made custard and melted butter. Butterscotch. With water: will get grassier, with touches of cardboard. Mouth (neat): tight and severe, on Stolle and fruitcake, malt extract, the heaviest brown beer (and that is not Guinness), plus touches of candy turmeric discount and bell pepper. Effectively, roughly. With water: takes off this time, with some candy natural teas and a real, correct maltiness. Fatter physique, might be from Craigellachie’s small stills. End: slightly lengthy, with a bit of honey added, in any other case ‘malt’. Honeyed aftertaste. Feedback: malty malt whisky that is doing greater than its job. I discover it glorious, if not completely revolutionary.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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A final one, let’s make it an previous mix…
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Royal Salute 38 yo ‘Stone of Future’ (40%, OB, blended Scotch, 2008) 
It is slightly unimaginable that Chivas would have bottled this at 40% vol., even fifteen years in the past (prehistoric occasions for whisky). I completely like it that at our associates drinkshop.fr, they might presently run a ‘purchase 11, get the twelfth at no cost’ operation with this bottle. The latter seems like they’ve co-designed it with some ex-Franklin-Mint exec, or with somebody from Buckingham. Having mentioned that, we will not wait to style it, even when they could have murdered it with this bottling power… Color: amber. Nostril: in fact not, they know what they’re doing they usually already did again in 2008. Extraordinary syrups and previous fruit liqueurs, figs, jujubes, rambutans, quinces, wild strawberries (very apparent), then beeswax and recent putty. Let’s be trustworthy, past the awful design, this nostril is slightly terrific, refined, complicated and sensible. Now as soon as once more, the satan’s on the palate… Mouth: not fairly. Positive a bit of extra oomph would have been welcome, however aside from that, that is superior, complicated, with slightly all the pieces from ripe fruits to waxes and from honey to floral flavours. Oh and the grain do not actually really feel, ought to there be any. Now whether or not these decanters do taint the whiskies, that is doable, there’s a feeling of clay, rust and cardboard, however we now have no proof that that is the decanter’s fault. Cannot be as dangerous as all these high-brow decanters which are bought in Chinese language mahogany circumstances… mendacity on their sides. Horrible. End: medium if not quick, however beautiful, waxy and honeyed. Jogs my memory of some previous Glenlivets of, nicely, of previous. A drop of salty bouillon within the aftertaste, that is one more dimension. Plus one black olive, trustworthy. Feedback: simply completely fantastic, critically. We prefer to joke about these ‘bottles’, about gold, Wedgwood, Limoges, Baccarat or Lalique – to not point out Aston Martin, LOL – however to be completely trustworthy, the liquids which are often housed therein would are usually of utter-top-quality; that is one other proof. Unbelievable, however cautious, one may down a bottle whereas watching solely two episodes of season 6 of Peaky Blinders.
SGP:551 – 91 factors. |
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