Fettercairn 1988 SV

Overall rating: 87.95/100
votes: 44

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Fettercairn
Bottler: Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling serie: Local Dealer Selection
Vintage: 07.12.1988
Bottled: 27.11.2017
Stated Age: 28 years old
Casktype: Hogshead
Casknumber: 2032
Number of bottles: 178
Strength: 54.5 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Barcode: 5021944095964
Market: Germany
Added on: 14 Dec 2017 3:19 pm by Tauti

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Whisky Reviews for Fettercairn 1988 SV

11 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 87.95 points

Lorion scored this whisky 88 points
17 Dec 2017 4:40 pm
Great ex-bourbon barrel! Supple and "old", but at the same time intense and powerful. 88 points.

Nose

Vanilla and pineapple are right there. Spicy, aromatic oak, which quickly gains in intensity. Very sweet with sour lime splashes. I smell a little coconut. Even some malt character is noticeable. Lemon cake roll. Peach, passion fruit. Fine wood chips. Now herbs are added. Oregano and some dill. The nose is getting older by the minute, tobacco gets into the nose after the inclusion of the palate.

Taste

An oak dominated, full and astringent mouthfeel begins. Sweet, lemon and vanilla. A whole fresh fruit salad with pineapple, apples, oranges and sugared almond slivers. A good deal of tobacco creeps up and governs the re-tasting. Chocolate that is slowly getting darker. The alcohol is super involved. The second sip is sweeter but has more tobacco.

Finish

Warm and sweet with tobacco and delicate bitterness. Medium to long.
AH Whiskyvitrine scored this whisky 89 points
23 Feb 2018 6:46 pm
- Nose
  
  90 90
- Taste
  
  91 91
- Finish
  
  89 89
Tommyknocker scored this whisky 87 points
22 Dec 2017 7:39 pm
a great "Cereal" Malt. Lots of fruit and ripe wood notes with cereal arms. I did not know that yet.

Nose

Pure: slightly pungent at first, lemon in orange lemonade. When that's over, pineapple follows with yogurt, honey and cereals, cereals and herbs on top. Very ripe, very complex without being woody. With water it becomes more flowery, "clearer", more accessible.

Taste

Pure: concentrated fruit at the beginning, then spicy oak with white pepper, salt and a pinch of parsnip. Here, too, herbs and a delicious muesli note. Complex and complex. Not quite as round as the Linkwood. With water: tasty, slightly malty and less spicy.

Finish

long, malty and fruity.
EnjoyLife89 scored this whisky 98 points
10 Mar 2019 1:27 pm
A roller coaster. So many flavors so well integrated. I totally like this (for me leather) grade. Paired with herbs and fruits and vanilla and honey, malt also wonderfully present.
A true dream of a malt.

Nose

No idea where to start. Very sweet, fruit and vanilla, but also herbs at the same time. Clearly leather; Malt is there too; A great oak, citrus, honey all at once; wonderful herbs

Taste

Boa, what a roller coaster. Immediately leather, then sweet and oily, light oak, sometimes slightly tart, then sweet again. Beautiful fruits, then herbs and flowers, again and again leather, the hammer the part

Finish

Warm, oak, malt and fruit, walnut ?; becomes slightly bitter, then sweet again, then oak, etc. Tender oak stays long, gets slightly dry. What a great malt.
The_Independent scored this whisky 89 points
17 Feb 2019 3:49 pm
A beautifully matured Bourbon barrel whisky, fruity, strong and voluminous. I like it very much.

Nose

88 88

Sweet and set with very well integrated alcohol. Yellow bourbon fruit: peach, pear compote, a dash of lime, lemon zest, spicy and herbaceous from the oak, a bit of menthol.

Taste

90 90

Heavy and oily, strong onset that fills the mouth, tingling ginger, initially sweet peach, slightly sour citrus, slight bitterness from the oak, however, very restrained for the age, walnut and chocolate.

Finish

89 89

The long finish is characterized by herbs, chocolate, spicy notes and a little bourbon fruit.
mema82 scored this whisky 89 points
19 Nov 2018 12:27 am
Nose

88 88

Taste

89 89

Finish

89 89
Dhugal MacArdry scored this whisky 86 points
25 Feb 2018 1:11 pm
- Nose
  
  86 86
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  86 86
- Finish
  
  86 86
nhuber scored this whisky 87 points
20 Jan 2018 9:48 pm

#4 of the local dealer Tasting. Now it finally gets interesting... Ok nose But very long and smooth in the mouth... Just keeps on going and changing while staying very present in the mouth.... Just a drop of water makes it smoother, but be careful with water.
dRambo scored this whisky 88 points
23 Dec 2017 2:41 pm
- Nose
  
  89 89
- Taste
  
  88 88
- Finish
  
  88 88
dRambo scored this whisky 88 points
23 Dec 2017 11:29 am
a nicely matured, gentle, quite fruity Dram especially on the palate neatly turns on and optimally brings his age to advantage - price performance I think is great - but a direct Do-Wollen-Reiz is not there yet - the Scoma Burgie 86 has me well dirty

Nose

Fresh in the glass, herbaceously austere, with more time it gets more pleasing, oily oak, some old lemon, delicate pineapple notes - which warms ever more intense, spicy honey, fresh light oak with lots of mint and ethereal notes like rosemary, citrus and eucalyptus

Taste

At first sourish sweet with intense almost overwhelming lemon note, apples, pears, fresh and canned pineapple, that sounds pretty fast - he gets calmer - with some chewing geranium leaves, covered green tea, jasmine flowers, astringent light oak, birch sap, vegetable spicy tannins, the mouthfeel is slightly syrupy viscous, nice texture

Finish

roasted grains, light flour, cultivated oak spiciness - multi-faceted, fine, spicy, slightly waxy, here you can feel the age, quite long and warm

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