Totoro님이 이 위스키에 91 점을 주셨습니다. 
A veritable fruit bomb with a muscular undercarriage and immaculate wood influence. Some will say: why should I shell out so much money for an ex-Bourbon Speysider that's not even 25 years old? Well, don't do it for the (putative) much-hyped distillery, but because this is well worth its price. Perhaps that's me, but I can't seem to find many 91-point malts below 170 € these days. So yeah, give me this over a comparably-priced modern sherry number any day of the week.
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Yes, it's fresh and "summery", with a basketful of orchard fruits and plenty of acidity. But at the same time it actually noses older than its stated age, with some lovely dusty and resiny notes from the barrel. Were I having this blind, I would probably locate it somewhere in the 26-29 y.o. age bracket. I guess that's what you get when you're working with a very good barrel VS a so-so Hogshead...
Freshly squeezed orange juice, honey, pine, beeswax, pollen, florals (basically a whole summer meadow), buttery croissants, barley sugars, cake dough. Pretty big body. Loves water. -
Yeah, no complaints here. Flavors: see above, plus some guava, pineapple, and caramel-filled milk chocolate. Plenty of power (and room to play with water). More on the sour / spicy than the sweet / creamy end of the spectrum, but that's no knock on the quality. A lovely late burst of fruits as it goes down. Perfect without water, also perfect with water, what more do you want?
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Peaches, mangoes, plenty of barley sugars, a bit of pep from the oak. Very softly drying and very long. Though the palate was noticeably citrus-based, there's nothing tart or acidic about the way this goes out, which is all the more impressive. Not one for wood fetishists though, if you know what I'm saying.
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