Old Pulteney 18-year-old

Overall rating: 86.14/100
votes: 74

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Old Pulteney
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: The Maritime Malt
Bottled: 2018
Stated Age: 18 years old
Casktype: Ex-Oloroso Sherry Butts Finish
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Added on: 14 Aug 2018 10:09 am by Dominique69

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Whisky Reviews for Old Pulteney 18-year-old

16 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 86.14 points

peatbogger scored this whisky 86 points
26 May 2019 2:29 pm
Distillery tasting.
This is a very good whisky, unfortunately a bit too expencive.
Although different in taste, I feel the 15YO is of a similar quality and hence better value.

Nose

86 86

Clean, sophisticated sherry nose.
Dark chocolate, plums, raisins.
The softer fresh fruity Pultney character is hard to detect.
Not extreme in any way, but kind of compact, may benefit from some time in the glass.

Taste

86 86

Rounded soft and sweet.
Coffee, fruit cake, orange chocolate.
It's a whisky on which you probably could really go to town disecting its complexity, or you can simply just enjoy it

Finish

85 85

Medium+ lenght slowly fading without any dram.
Chocolate and sherry notes rounding off nicely.
Dre73 scored this whisky 86 points
24 Apr 2019 10:48 am
Very smooth and gentle, but with a full taste. Clearly some sherrycask influence.

Nose

86 86

Very fruity, peach, tropical fruits, honey. Then the sherrycask influence comes in, more coffee, chocolate and prunes.

Taste

86 86

Very soft and smooth, only a little pepper, without being thin. Full and creamy structure, sweet, honey, and later on some prunes.

Finish

85 85

Again soft and smooth, honey, some sherry influences remain, prunes and some chocolate. Middle long.
LordBellamy scored this whisky 89 points
17 Mar 2019 6:19 pm
Water addition: No, that is very well balanced

Conclusion: Yummy, a whisky to drink away and makes with every sip fancy sea, the Sherryfinfish is not very pronounced, instead, the flavors complement each other very well, without mutually suppressing or fighting. And who likes salted peanut butter will love this one

Nose

very dense, ripe, yellow fruits (mirabelles, apricots, peaches), neat salt, a good portion of oak, salted caramel, peanut flavors and also very subtle smoke

Taste

soft, velvety appearance, great sweetness after a lot of yellow fruits, caramel, peanut butter, the salt is not so intense here, as well as the oak, which only brings some spice in the background

Finish

medium length, vanilla, fruity, tea, sweet-salty with some oak shavings, without any bitterness fades with the taste of lightly salted peanut butter with caramel pieces
StyrianSpirit scored this whisky 87 points
14 Feb 2019 11:33 am
That was non-love at first sight. Maybe the Malt wins with a lot of oxygen, time and habituation. Anyone who likes strong, rubber-sweet malts with sulfur will also like this Pulteney. I like that less now. You can try, but you do not have to.

The 18er stands out from the Pulteney range and seems to me already "designed". Also, the price of around 120 euros (as of 02/2019) is based on the current market situation. There I find the new 15-year-old Pulteney (ID: 116460) the basically better and for the distillery much more characteristic malt.

Nose

88 88

Really now? On the first nose the full rubber abrasion, sweetness with sulfur. That could be one of those rubberized edradours! I did not have such a nose on any Pulteney. Ok, after an hour in the glass and a lot of panning, there are still a few Bourbon Bar flavors; but the rubber nose (children's dinghy: a lot of ice cream and sunscreen) covers everything. So I'm really looking forward to this taste ...

Taste

87 87

In the mouth, the 18er then plays all his strength, brand Sherrykracher. Also sweet, but no longer as sweet as in the nose, now plum roaster and black berry. Similar in short moments to a refill sherry keg like the Fassstark Clynelish (ID: 121497). And at the second sip then again this Edradour rubber boat sweetie. Of matches.

Finish

86 86

In the finish is again supplemented with oak, before appear again these artificial sweet notes. Somehow I'm sensitive to something like that. If you like that, ok. I find the 18er Pulteney less successful after the first drams in mouthfeel and finish.
galg33 scored this whisky 88 points
21 Sep 2018 9:44 pm

Nose: the nose is heavier, darker , more sherried and brooding. with dark chocolate, honey and cocoa, more of the apple pie, quite rich, with spices, black tea leaves, tobacco and even a smoky touch and a hint of salt.

Palate: thick and complex, dark fruit, chocolate, Xmas cake again, more ripe oranges, dark honey, tobacco, tea leaf, salty touches, old leather, chewable stuff.

Finish : dried fruit, prune, date, spices, cigar tobacco, wood.
Palindrome did not rate this whisky
20 Aug 2019 9:24 am

How does the new 18 2018 compare with the 17 2018? I'm surprised nobody has done a side by side comparison as of yet. I know the 17 is being phased out, but still. Someone must have both open at the present time
craide scored this whisky 84 points
20 Jul 2019 9:20 pm
As far as delicious, interesting flavors are there. But seems somehow immature for me. With the price you have to get more.

Nose

86 86

Slightly fruity sweet start with a somewhat artificial touch of pineapple. It mixes with some apricot and orange. Salt pushes forward again and again. Add some honey with a strange gum note.
A slight medical undertone remains.
Interesting flavors and not bad but not not really my case.

Taste

84 84

Nice soft start on the palate.
Honey sweetness stays with a few spices.
Light oak is noticeable. Subtle salty at the end. There are a few floral notes left.

Finish

83 83

Short finish with some cocoa and coffee. Slightly drier.
dRambo scored this whisky 86 points
10 Jul 2019 11:35 pm
quite nice you can drink, but really find no reason to buy me a bottle, not even to 120 ¬ ridiculous - worlds away from the noble old 21er was the cheaper to have

Nose

85 85

very salty, mineral, crushed lemon dropper, Wick cough sweet pineapple, raisins, gummy note, slightly unpleasant metallic undertone

Taste

86 86

Honey, tangy sweet tobacco, salt, olive oil, espresso, orange peel, cereals, raisins

Finish

86 86

musty dried fruit, wood dust, salt liquorice, leather, cocoa
ffmdino did not rate this whisky
12 Jun 2019 9:35 pm
fair puddle

for 18y I find the mau
Time does not help
the 15th is better

Nose

earthy, nutty, light vanilla is more, something lumps, roasted wood, cereals
later slightly apple, autumn leaves

Taste

soft on the palate
Vanilla, spices (cinnamon?), Bitter, maritime but no salt,

Finish

medium to long
slightly oak, bitter
schengel10 scored this whisky 86 points
09 Jun 2019 7:42 pm
A great, mature and complex Pulteney, maybe a bit expensive;
[Color:] bright amber;

Nose

yellow fruits (apricots), honey, vanilla, some salt, then oak;

Taste

first a soft start, then it unfolds powerfully, honey, caramel, fruits, also sherry flavors, spices, dark chocolate, oak, complex;

Finish

long finish with chocolate and oak; dry off;

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