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BOTTLE #3 [Aug 2019] WB83.69[133]

One more bottle then, just to make sure!

Much like I had with Lidl’s [25yo & > 34yo] Glenalba’s [WB], this short-lived love affair is certainly over. This third bottle is far too young and spirity. Unlike the first two, this one ended up hanging around on the back shelf for some time. Last month I pulled it out to see whether it had rallied.

N: Initially, the engineering behind this one’s creation appears very effective [WN], but closer scrutiny reveals the short cuts. It’s pretty basic and needed months of softening. Thankfully by the bottle’s end the nose became more forgiving. Descriptors: [sherry] syrup, bready, sweet & sour vinegar, honeyed husky crushed nuts, tahini, a touch of white spirt-soaked paint brushes,….
T: Whist the nose may have opened up, the arrival on the palate is generally young and nippy yet proved most agreeable to the uninitiated. Though it demonstrates a bitter-sweet profile fairly well, there is a sense of incompletion, something lacking as if it needs blending. So what did I do? I blended it with an older blend, Ralfy-styley [coming up].
F: The finish is fine if short, murky waxy sweet sour and spirity/grainy becoming more mildly sweet-bitter with nutty caramel/molasses-light.
C: A fair sherried blended malt for its price point, just no comparison to the first bottle.

Scores 79 points

However, pour some of this juice into a hip flask and forget about it for three months and hey presto, we’re significantly closer the calibre of the first bottle again! I guess if the industry hasn’t the discipline to wait any longer for their spirit to age, then we’ll have to – or alternatively – look to older juice on the secondary market:

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/bottle-polishing-sherried-scotch-old-new/

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/bottle-polishing-sherried-scotch-old-new/

BOTTLE #1 [Jan/Feb 2019] WB84.96[58]

Launched in early 2018, not many blended malts can claim to be 100% sherry-matured, bottled at decent strength and with a price tag of around £32 [Sep ’19].

N: An instantly pleasing perky fruity [almost floral] & nutty/malty bitter-sweet nose with a little [sherried] pong coming from a combo of casks – some rather talkative of their previous cask content and some not. With some fusty O&R stylistics, this one seems a tad more mature compared to the contemporary Glenfarclas 105 [at time of writing], though both expressions speak a youthful patois.
T: A tangy, cask-y, citrus arrival with a molasses-like bitter sweet, creamy woody move. A little water goes a long way to help conjure a waxy barley-soft mouthfeel and provide more chocolate & caramac confectionary en route.
F: Fruity-dry with a fully played out sherry-fruity tannic chew.
C: Plenty to like aside from the price, this is a well considered sherried number [that went down very quickly], that I’d happily buy again as a daily drammer. With thanks to David for the recommendation.

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/bottle-polishing-sherried-scotch-old-new/

BOTTLE #2 [Later in 2019] WB84.11[99]

On the back of that positive experience, I bought another two bottles for easy drinking and sharing. I then begun to hear rumours that this one now seems younger than it did. As these bottles are polished, observe the corresponding Whiskybase scores I recorded at the time.
C: I took this bottle to Campbeltown. Peeps talked of this one being too young, cask driven, cask syrup-ed, simple and bitter, and I’d agree with all of that. Still tasty, this bottle disappeared almost as quickly but did appear much younger, vastly more simple and with considerably less depth/info.

Scores no more than 80 points