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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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October 14, 2022
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New Scottish cats, both wooden or spirit pushed
We maintain gathering all these inside one huge class, however we will quickly should separate them as some are actually rising and about to earn their very own pages inside WF’s index. However let’s do that randomly…
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Arbikie ‘Highland Rye batch: 22’ (48%, OB, single grain, 2490 bottles, 2022) 
Some new single farm whisky ala Waterford, however this can be a single grain that harbours rye, malted barley and wheat. I imagine it is the primary time I am making an attempt one thing by Arbikie, a Distillery that is powered by hydrogen that is additionally making vodka and gin. Color: gold. Nostril: nothing very ‘Scottish’ in there, however it’s a tremendous rye, bready and with whiffs of new-sawn planks, plywood, mild curry and lavender. Simply touches of lavender, no worries… Mouth: fairly candy, bready and spicy. Pumpernickel, wholegrain bread, some molasses, syrup… End: medium, sweetish, with a contemporary oakiness that feels. Feedback: actually tremendous, however I am unsure the whisky world wants the Scots right here. Great rye’s presently been made in North America (clearly) but in addition in Germany, Austria, France… and even in Oxford (their newest batch is tops, on WF quickly). Now we’ll strive subsequent batches with pleasure, I am positive they enhance mucho.
SGP:640 – 69 factors. |
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Ardnamurchan 2016/2022 AD/09.22 (58.4%, OB, bourbon and sherry) 
It is an understatement to say that Ardnamurchan are heading in the right direction, however then once more, a private opinion. Color: white wine. Nostril: this one’s dry, nearly austere at first, gristy, with numerous smokes, particularly wooden and peat, then whiffs of cheesecake and oatcakes. We’re near the uncooked supplies! With water: all powers to smoked barley and overripe apples. Some bitter wooden too, which I all the time take pleasure in. At a winemaker’s in Meursault, through the harvest. Mouth (neat): a totally totally different whisky, clearly within the type of a Distillery that sits on the Kildalton coast, with a fairly huge dry peat coated with apple and banana foam. It feels somewhat younger, however keep in mind Celine Dion began very early too (what?) With water: wine gums, marshmallows, pear liqueur, ashes, charcoal. End: lengthy, ashy, peppery. Feedback: younger and glorious.
SGP:555 – 86 factors. |
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Since we had been doing peat…
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Torabhaig ‘Allt Gleann’ (46%, OB, Legacy Sequence, 2022) 
From these beautiful of us on Skye that made different beautiful of us on Skye change considered one of their baselines from ‘the one Distillery’ to ‘the oldest Distillery’ (and, S.?). I am going to add that I discovered the unique launch, again in 2020, simply extremely very good (WF 88). Color: pale white wine. Nostril: a great deal of ashes, apple peel, coal, porridge and lemon juice. Very straight, very peaty, pure, uncomplicated, superior. Fairly some mercurochrome too, I am positive you would use it to heal any wounds, it is simply that you’d odor like a strolling barbecue. Mouth: straight to the purpose, pure peaty malt whisky as in pure peaty malt whisky. No flannel, no sideways, and only a feeling of… well-being. As our dearest associates in Italy would say, like peat love this, no like peat not like this. End: lengthy and really extra complicated, with notes of fino, lemon juice, seawater, ashes in fact, oysters, lime… IN a means we’re getting even nearer to the Cross (understands who can). Feedback: superb, however clearly extra an Islay than a Skye. If I could…
SGP:457 – 89 factors. |
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Lochlea ‘Harvest Version’ (46%, OB, 2022) 
It was launched final month. They’ve used Port, so let’s proceed with warning. They’ve additionally used bourbon and sherry (some say fairly STR), having stated that… Color: gold. Nostril: all tremendous, the casks have executed their jobs, there’s some gingerbread, pumpernickel, fig jam, and even a sense of kougelhopf and battelman. No complains, I believe I like this nostril higher than that of the PX-ed ‘First Launch’, the one with the gray label. Mouth: bready certainly, if somewhat plankish, with good sweetness, candy barley, raisins, extra gingerbread, breads, rye… It’s a nice drink for positive, I’d simply love to have the ability to have a greater grasp of the distillate. However that is the destiny of many a brand new Distillery, many distillers are actually busy with the woods they buy or, that is new I’ve heard, hire. End: medium, spicier. Cinnamon over zwetschke pie. Feedback: goody good… We’re awaiting an ex-bourbon expression…
SGP:551 – 80 factors. |
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Nearer to the distillate he stated…
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Holyrood 2020 ‘Chevalier’ (43%, OB, Spirit Drink, Charmed Circle, +/-2022)
Clearly not whisky, however they’ve used Chevalier, an older, higher-quality pressure of barley. In French, chevalier means knight, simply so that you simply’re within the know. Color: white. Nostril: precisely what we have all the time dreamed of, some correct barley eau-de-vie, fairly than simply uncooked newmake. I discover this totally gorgeous, deep, complicated, with some buttered caramel, quince pie, dried jujubes, goji, even umami, lees, ale… Wow wow wow! Mouth: excellent. That is the spirit. Barley in majesty, breads, ales and stouts, figs, fudge, butterscotch, pear liqueur… Even the power of 43% vol. is ideal on this context. End: medium, earthy, terroiry (hey hey) and simply f…… good. Apologies. Feedback: I keep in mind after I first tried white Clairin from Haiti. Related emotions. Oh and sure, some new clairins quickly on WF!
SGP:561 – 89 factors. |
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Holyrood 2020 ‘Golden Promise’ (43%, OB, Spirit Drink, Charmed Circle, +/-2022) 
Golden Promise, very good barley (assume Macallan), however decrease yields than these of newer and blander strains. What would you assume the trade did when these got here out? Bingo. Color: white. Nostril: chevalier was deeper and sweeter on the nostril, golden promise is fatter, much less ‘candy’, extra on grassy and fattish components, oils, earths, root greens… Chevalier simply killed you, that is extra introspective… Mouth: certainly, fats, rawer, more durable, most likely needing extra getting old (and maybe correct sherry casks). Even at 43%, it’s a tad robust and brutal. End: artichokes, maybe? Feedback: I may down a magnum of the chevalier, I am unsure I’d quaff a wee glass of the golden promise on this state. However what you do get right here is the potential. Bear in mind the previous saying, when the new-make’s too good, the whisky might be crap.
SGP:461 – 84 factors. |
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Isle of Raasay ‘Unpeated’ (63.5%, OB, virgin Chinkapin oak, 2022)
A model new launch, image is that of an earlier bottling. Chinkapin oak reminds us of Physician Invoice at Glenmorangie, who, round fifteen years in the past, did discover and take a look at strictly all variants of American white oak anybody may consider, even some fairly esoteric variations similar to ‘greater than 50 years previous oak tree timbered utilizing a Husqvarna chainsaw whereas listening to Bachman Turner Overdrive’. Fairly. As for our normal feeling about Raasay, as an instance it stands at ‘very beneficial’. Color: gold. Nostril: I keep in mind, some very raisiny oak. That is ridden with raisins certainly, rye bread, figs aplenty, then we have now Swiss fondue, plum spirit, gazpacho… Certainly, that is fairly uncommon. With water: the fondue stays, along with miso paste, fig wine, a drop of cider vinegar, and definitely different fermentary issues. Possibly somewhat avant-garde, however beautiful whisky. Mouth (neat): heavy spicy concoction, I might have sworn this was some loopy American whisky made by ex-traders. It is most likely simply that it wanted water… With water: ah, there, pure oak spices, cinnamon in majesty, curry, allspice, ras-el-hanout… and baked lemons preserving it somewhat simpler. End: very lengthy, very spicy, with black olives chiming in. Feedback: nearly liquid tajin. Onerous to attain, however choukran, Isle of Raasay!
SGP:661 – 85 factors. |
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Bye-bye, we’ll have many Dornochs subsequent time we deal with ‘new Scotland’…
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