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| Hello, that is one in all our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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June 18, 2021
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As a result of Teaninich is fairly near Clynelish… architecturally.
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Teaninich 9 yo (46%, James Eadie, Small Batch, 1084 bottles, 2020) 
From three casks, barrels and hoggies. We do know that James Eadie are extraordinarily good at bottling younger malts that will be ‘prepared’. Color: pale white wine. Nostril: they did it once more. Immaculate, completely barley-driven, gristy and doughy malt, with good construction and simply the suitable quantities of candy yeastiness and ripe apples. An ideal beer, only a wee bit stronger. Mouth: wonderful. Touches of espresso (dregs), earth, recent baguette, then bread certainly, vanilla fudge, ale, beeswax… A really warming dram that, having mentioned that, you may quaff like Champagne. So, cautious… End: fairly lengthy and very barley-y. That is the entire level, is it not. These coffee-ish notes within the aftertaste, café latte, cappuccino… Feedback: maybe a tad Starbucksian, however within the phrases of Pete Rodriguez, I prefer it like that.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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James Eadie had one other proposition final 12 months…
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Teaninich 12 yo 2008/2020 (51.5%, James Eadie, 1st fill oloroso hogshead end, cask # 354556, 246 bottles) 
So, the alternative I suppose… Color: espresso. Nostril: not that extravagant, reasonably well-mannered, reasonably on espresso and pipe tobacco, then reasonably on herbs similar to parsley and coriander. A bit of rosemary too, mole sauce, hoisin… With water: sawn oak and walnut stain, I might say. Unsure it wants water. Mouth (neat): some dry Jägermeister and a big bag of cocoa and occasional. Walnuts as nicely, after all, and touches of pencil shavings. I suppose the ending time has been comparatively quick. With water: very high quality however I consider we’re touching the boundaries of this set-up. Some bonbons, oily herbs, liquorice cordial, Ricola (have you learnt of Ricola?) … I’ve the sensation that we have left Whiskydom. End: reasonably lengthy, on espresso and herbs, which isn’t, thoughts you, as emetic as you’d assume. Feedback: I am just a little misplaced right here. What to think about this? Some type of readymade coffee-schnapps? And who would recognise Teaninich? The Distillery Supervisor?
SGP:461 – 80 factors. |
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Teaninich 1999/2019 (49.7%, Dutch Connection, Michiel Wigman, They Impressed, 238 bottles)
Along with his bottlings our good friend Michiel is paying tribute to individuals who actually counted, Gandhi, Mandela, Churchill, Kennedy, Jim McEwan… Color: white wine. Nostril: gentle, clear, nearly diaphanous malt whisky, on crushed bananas, bread, pastries, oatcakes, porridge… I am unsure you may come any nearer to ‘the barley’. With water: fantastic earth, flour, concrete mud, paper… Mouth (neat): a wee dusty/cardboardy feeling at first, then reasonably plenty of espresso and kirschwasser. Uncooked within the good sense. With water: bitter juices, weissbeer, cherry juice… End: medium, fairly yeasty and bitter/candy. Feedback: this one’s very near nature. Excuse me, to Nature.
SGP:351 – 85 factors. |
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Teaninich 12 yo 2008/2021 (48.5%, WhiskySponge, refill hogshead, 257 bottles)
Color: white wine. Nostril: much more pure and uncooked than Michiel’s, that is nearly ink blended with chalk and M&S’s pancake combine. Do M&S make any pancake combine? Then paraffin, plasticine, limestone, lambswool and fresh-broken branches. Maybe just a little mental? Do sponges have brains? Mouth: understood. The cask having its say now, with café latte and roasted hazelnuts, sesame oil, touches of triple-sec, curaçao, then extra natural and spicy touches, thyme maybe, juniper… End: reasonably lengthy, reasonably natural and reasonably bitter. Feedback: very mental however I type of prefer it. Identical feeling as whenever you would learn Struggle and Peace in German, solely a lot quicker. So all in all, this wee whisky saves you time!
SGP:351 – 85 factors. |
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Teaninich 11 yo 2008/2020 (60.4%, The Single Malts of Scotland, Elixir Distillers, hogshead, cask #715790, 313 bottles) 
I’ve known as my lawyer, we could proceed… Color: white wine. Nostril: no actually, bread, ink… Are we presupposed to destroy our olfactory bulb and mind to attempt to detect any clear aromas and even molecules right here? Wooden alcohol, grasses… With water: no. Whisky for masochists, which we aren’t. Mouth (neat): uncooked, ethanoly, harsh, unethical, dictatorial, unsexy, grassy, nearly fascist whisky. No actually, do that one, we’ll speak later. With water: just a little higher, fruitier, however frankly, we might certainly solely drink this if we might have run out of Absolut, Jägermeister, Tanqueray and Havana Membership. End: medium, grassy, bitter, pointless. Feedback: good enjoyable, however these are the boundaries of malt whisky. You would intellectualise something however on the finish of the day, would you have got one other glass? The reply is a transparent and resounding ‘no’ right here. For as soon as, however London, the whole lot alright?
SGP:451 – 70 factors. |
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Teaninich 13 yo 2007/2020 (55.8%, Adelphi for Hotmalt Taiwan, cask #301265, 522 bottles) 
Appears like that is espresso liqueur… BTW we do not hear a lot of our pricey buddies at Adelphi’s today, hope they’re doing high quality! Now they should be very busy with their very own distillery… Color: reddish espresso. Nostril: wooden oils, teak, balsam, gianduja, café latte, Bulldog sauce, fresh-sawn MDM or plywood, prunes… With water: reasonably related, solely with extra meaty and natural touches. Rooster broth, bouillons, miso and stuff… Mouth (neat): very thick, extraordinarily extractive (good, S.!) and actually fairly harsh. These high-extraction whiskies will be enjoyable, however this time we’re in doom-metal-black-hard-rock territory. Even Ozzy could be afraid; no, after all not Keef. With water: meat and chocolate. A brand new enterprise concept, some chocolate flavoured with beef, rooster, veal, pork, shrimp, foie gras… What would you say? Good, let’s do it 50/50… End: very lengthy, bitterer, brutal, inexperienced, salty… Feedback: humorous and even motivating, however excessive; would we take one other glass? Is it actually moreish? NO.
SGP:672 – 79 factors. |
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A a lot older Teaninich and we’re accomplished. Boy, Teaninich!
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Teaninich 27 yo 1958/1985 (46%, Cadenhead, dumpy)
This one from when Cadenhead have been nonetheless in Aberdeen. Was the ‘outdated woman’ nonetheless on the helm? By the way in which, whereas we’re at t it, many entities are claiming that they’ve pioneered the entire 46% vol. concept. Yeah proper. Additionally it is to be famous that this was distilled earlier than Teaninich doubled its capability of manufacturing, in 1962. Possibly additionally that Teaninich is an especially trendy Distillery, however that wasn’t the case again in 1958. Color: straw. Nostril: that is the factor, all these ‘black dumpies’ by Cadenhead do share some frequent traits and after 30 or 35 or 40 years in glass, it is arduous to say whether or not some aromas or flavours have been there when the casks have been disgorged, or If it was all generated throughout bottle getting older. On this very case, we have large notes of metallic polish, outdated copper cash, outdated toolbox and even ‘outdated motorbike’. However is that this Teaninich or is it Cadenhead? Mouth: outdated broths, oils, ointments.. Some inks, herbs, bouillons, some saltiness, some meat, marrow, chilly cuts, leek soup… No simple malt whisky for positive, and no fruits to be seen. There’s even one thing oxidative, dry sherry model. End: reasonably lengthy, reasonably on salt, paraffin, marrow, putty, walnuts, oloroso and bitter oranges. Is that this just a little unlikely? You guess! Feedback: this was bottled 35 years in the past. It is starting to nosedive, I am positive. Safe your investments, buddies; bottles of whisky, whether or not the extent is okay or not, will not be everlasting!
SGP:263 – 85 factors. |
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