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| Hello, that is one in all our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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April 13, 2022
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We have had plenty of younger ones yesterday, all somewhat comparable I’ve to say. Not the best session ever, however Linkwood’s not a troublesome whisky. As deliberate, let’s have extra…
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Linkwood 14 yo 2007/2021 (55.3%, Golden Cask, bourbon, cask #CM276, 271 bottles) 
A final younger Linkwood, earlier than we go down the vintages… Color: white wine. Nostril: vanilla, barley syrup, dandelions, mullein syrup, maize cream, brioche and muffins. All proper. With water: pretty natural and flowery touches. Let’s say daisies? Mouth (neat): marshmallows, jelly infants, cassata, nougat, candyfloss, granny smith… With water: oh, fantastic, with some mocha and cappuccino, plus chenin blanc (Savennières!) and pistachio nougat. Barely balsamic. End: medium however creamy, nougaty, with a salty facet, grapefruits and extra pistachios. Feedback: a pistachio-y and coffee-ish younger Linkwood, that is actually very cool! We are saying very glorious drop, golden certainly.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Whoops, forgot one other younger one…
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Linkwood 12 yo 2009/2021 (58.6%, The Whisky Trade, barrel, cask #695, 205 bottles) 
Color: white wine. Nostril: mangos and varnishes, that is what we get. Sunflower oil and plaster as nicely. With water: grassier, extra resinous. A drop of turpentine, a drop of Hampden. Actually. Mouth (neat): glorious, extra mineral, all the time extraordinarily fruity, on yellow melons and a bag of citrons, plus moderately plenty of peppermint (Get 27 and different refreshing boozes for partygoers). With water: sweeter, even somewhat sugary, syrupy… Strawberry jam, actually? Cranberry syrup? Seems like mu trustworthy Vitell water unleashed some uncontrolled sugariness. End: moderately lengthy however a notch too candy for me. Syrups. Feedback: don’t get me incorrect, it’s a very good younger Linkwood, it is simply that it might be for candy enamel (house owners) solely.
SGP:641 – 84 factors. |
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Linkwood-Glenlivet 21 yo 1997/2018 (55%, Cadenhead, Genuine Assortment, bourbon hogshead, 270 bottles)
Twenny-one years, that is beginning to depend. Color: straw. Nostril: Kahlua, Werther’s Originals, madeleines and Jaffa muffins, then maracuja and damp chalk at college. It’s not very difficult however water could make it complicated. With water: porridge and pancakes. Briefly, again to barley and oats, plus paraffin. Mouth (neat): banana cake, sauvignon blanc, tons of gooseberries, simply grass and simply inexperienced bananas. With water: sweeter and far rounder. Candy barley and lightweight molasses. Overlook about water. End: medium, candy, with somewhat mint, in any other case overripe apples and barley sweetness. Latte within the aftertaste. Feedback: it is that there is perhaps tens of millions of comparable casks sleeping in Scotland. Okay, a whole bunch of hundreds, based on the Royal Financial institution of Scotland.
SGP:541 – 84 factors. |
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Linkwood-Glenlivet 22 yo 1995/2018 (48.8%, Cadenhead, Small Batch, 500 bottles)
This one from two hogsheads, woo-hoo! Color: straw. Nostril: mild molasses, acacia honey, pancake sauce, barley, Golden Grahams, small-grain muscat, chalk, dough, hay… Mouth: spicier arrival, with mints, candy garlic, then extra mint and camphor. Very distinctive, uncommon, mentholy, recent. End: medium, superbly bitter, moderately on bitter cherries, branches, roots, wild carrots, maybe even gentian. Some type of peatiness within the aftertaste. Feedback: some motion in there. Not your basic Linkwood in any respect, not even positive the cask had not contained some heavies earlier than, however there, it’s an superior and moderately potent (regardless of the sub-50 energy) Linkwood. Nice work at Cadenhead’s.
SGP: 462- 87 factors. |
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Linkwood-Glenlivet 23 yo 1992/2016 (55.3%, Cadenhead, Small Batch, bourbon hogsheads, 492 bottles) 
It is wonderful what you discover within the bins… Color: mild gold. Nostril: it is a tighter batch, a waxier one, a extra medicinal one too, extra on chalky menthol, ointments, recent butter, grasses… With water: okay. Herbs, dry wines, bitter fruits, leaven… Nothing to jot down house about. Mouth (neat): mint and grasses, hay, contact of tar and plastic, rotting fruits, paraffin, propolis… This one’s not too simple, regardless of the vatting that is been completed, with a lot care I am positive. With water: no, we get misplaced between peelings and bitter grasses. End: lengthy, bitter, austere. Feedback: a lot hassle with this powerful man that is been bitter and grassy, and possibly fairly pointless.
SGP:361 – 78 factors. |
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Allow us to pace up issues…
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Linkwood 24 yo 1997/2021 (56.6%, Signatory Classic for The Whisky Trade, hogshead, cask #7566, 225 bottles) 
In principle… Color: mild gold. Nostril: surprisingly, it’s a common Linkwood, on doughs, bananas, breads, muffins and softer waxes. With water: blueberries and simply recent focaccia, pizza dough, Comté cheese… Ooh that is good, if somewhat uncommon. Mouth (neat): good, candy, fruity, on gooseberries and white currants, plus blueberries and rhubarb. Plainly it is moderately occurring in your palate. With water: blueberries and cassis. Assume and dig deeper, and you will find notes of Nuits-St-Georges, that’s to say the utter epitome of pinot-noir-iness. Distinctive notes of pink wine, with none pink wine. That is the best way! End: simply lengthy. We have to discuss this bottling, moderately round somewhat foie gras, truffles and morels. Feedback: bam-bam, TWE and SigV!
SGP:561 – 89 factors. |
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Linkwood 27 yo 1991/2018 (55.6%, The Single Malts of Scotland, hogshead, cask #10340, 212 bottles) 
Boy are we late, this time once more. Color: straw. Nostril: not so much, varnish, cider, chalk… With water: extra earthiness, French beans, samphire, wakame… Mouth (neat): ah sure, mint, parsley, eucalyptus, wild carrots and celeriac, gentian, some grassy smoke… With water: sweeter barley-y motion, figs and raisins… Nicely this isn’t precisely Botticelli’s Start of Venus, is it. End: medium, candy, a notch indefinite. Blended honeys and waxes, plus overripe apples. Feedback: not a lot to say. drop, however I am unsure I will bear in mind it ceaselessly. Bear in mind what?
SGP:551 – 81 factors. |
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Linkwood 30 yo 1986/2016 (41.4%, Sansibar, 96 bottles)
Sansibar! I hope these nice people up there are nonetheless energetic and doing it proper and advantageous! A lot and lots of hugs. Color: gold. Nostril: beeswax, artisan cider, buttery chardonnays of Bourgogne, floorcloth, mushrooms, mint tea… In fact there’s some fragility to this one, however this buttery Burgundian facet stays extraordinarily nice. Hope it will not crumble down on our palates… Mouth: no, under no circumstances, however it positive is somewhat fragile, with teas, teas and teas, plus white chocolate. Comfortable oaks, leaves, and extra teas certainly. End: somewhat brief and really tea-ish. I’d say this child went to a different world. Adios, child. Feedback: fragile and dry, that is nearly cider in my little e-book. Bear in mind, all the time and solely a private opinion.
SGP:451 – 80 factors. |
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Let’s attempt to cease this downwards spiral for good…
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Linkwood 27 yo 1983 (46%, Mo Or Assortment, 352 bottles, +/-2010)
These nice people had been simply too early, the world wasn’t prepared but. Bah, all of it received dumber anyway. We bow earlier than them and ship them a lot love and empathy – offered they preserve listening. Color: gold. Nostril: the most effective, truthful and sq.. Benzoin, banana skins, lime blossom, teak oil, 2-stroke benzine combine, cough combination, overripe apples, coal tar and Sylvaner. Holy Suzy! Mouth: in any case these years, it could nonetheless crush all of the others, regardless of a barely extreme leafy and medicinal dryness. Eucalyptus, linseed oil, camphor, salty and smoky almond oil, leafy salted teas, and all that. Brine, with giant almond-stuffed olives. A better and lighter Speysider, they mentioned… B.S. alert! There’s a lot B.S. in whisky nowadays… End: yep. Oils operating the present – no oils, no whiskies. Feedback: do you actually need any?
SGP:462 – 89 factors. |
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