Longrow 18-year-old

Overall rating: 88.96/100
votes: 184

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Springbank
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottled: 2008
Stated Age: 18 years old
Number of bottles: 2100
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 700 ml 750 ml
Added on: 23 Aug 2008 8:42 pm

Average value

€ 241,19

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Whisky Reviews for Longrow 18-year-old

15 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 88.96 points

Kovalyoff scored this whisky 91 points
09 Sep 2019 12:48 am

91
First release. Great balance!
Nose: this is something magical ... A sweet creamy cake, citrus, vanilla, mint, light honey, candies, and against the backdrop of all this diversity there is a light haze of a fire ... Great!
Taste: pastries, butter cream, honey, old salty wooden support of the pier ... ash ...
Finish: long and pleasant ... Heat ... At the receptors, honey and butter cream are the basis, and all this is sprinkled with ash.
el Gato scored this whisky 89 points
18 Dec 2018 7:12 pm
Nose

Typical for the region for sure. Salty. Peat, an is, peach, blueberries. Red apples and blackcurrants. Some smoke with time

Taste

Thick. Gentle peat. Citrus. Besides that, basically the same notes from the nose. Some smoke

Finish

Long. Apples. Anis. Berries and gentle peat. Some citrus and smoke
Bram84 scored this whisky 88 points
13 Dec 2018 6:46 pm
Nose

87 87

Taste

88 88

Finish

88 88
Vladimir Ziryanov scored this whisky 89 points
17 May 2018 5:17 pm
The balance is at the level, but at first a little scares, you need to give a little breathe. 22

Nose

Hmm, the first nose is very closed, despite 46%, even more accurate is not that closed, but some kind of absurd, on the first background some not very tasty sour, then a pleasant enough farm inherent in many Okto-mam in the form of a barnyard and silage and then mineralization in the form of stones, dust and still that, from start 21 is already shown and it even with a stretch. He was puzzled and left to breathe for half an hour under the lid. Subsequently, the sour was lost, the farm did not return, but came light fruits in the form of a clear lemon and echoes of peaches with oranges, and a little seasoned with spices and peat. Already everything is much more interesting. 23

Taste

Quite strong peat and bourbon base in the form of light fruits, but unfortunately a bit thin for me, at 46% I wanted much more. 22

Finish

Long enough and harsh, but the fruit retreated, and ash, soot, burnt fire, something even reminded Ardmo. 22
valery77 scored this whisky 87 points
12 Mar 2018 6:45 pm
Not bad, but the price / pleasure ratio, perhaps, is not up to par.

Nose

The first wave - smoke, peat, ash, light lemon sour. Something like a mineral water. Then sourness weakens, sweetness is added, something like apricot jam and sweet baking. But smoke, peat and ash still dominate.

Taste

Smoky-peat, sweet, sulphurous-mineral. A little bit sharp.

Finish

More likely, long. Smoky, sweet-salted, but without the Ailov sea features-iodine, ozone, algae.
DenisLeonov scored this whisky 92 points
12 Mar 2018 1:51 pm
Balance (23) Steep mole, a bit thin, but it's nitpicking. (92)

Nose

Grass, sweet peat ... mineral ... lemon caramel ... eucalyptus ... oatmeal cookies ... zhivotinka

Taste

Ashes, pepper, wax, salt, orange in pepper glaze (23)

Finish

Finish paper-wax ... burning ... spices, salt, orange peel and mint ... burnt wood ... a wave of caramel-smoky, dusty lemons
valery77 scored this whisky 87 points
25 Feb 2018 7:09 pm
- Nose
  
  89 89
- Taste
  
  87 87
- Finish
  
  91 91
lachaineduwhisky did not rate this whisky
08 Mar 2017 10:05 pm

On the nose, immediately, a winning combination of generous fruits and a light peat and earth, the two completions melted. After a careful examination, they are fresh fruits, such as apples and pears, whose freshness is indisputable. We also have a slight bitter - and pleasant - note evoking coffee, and also malt. On the palate, with a very smooth touch of mouth, very nice balance of sweet spices, fruits, malt and also a sweet note, all complemented by a small note of earthy peat on the tongue. I think I detect this "Cambeltown style" that I loved in the Kilkerran, but without being able to put more precise words that would help you to define it. I read afterwards a lot of comments on the supposed saline side of this dram, but this feeling did not appear to me blatantly during the tasting. Vinous notes (red wine) in the finale, very enveloping at first, then it evolves in length (very large for the rest) to give something a little mineral that I did not like. This is the only mini-reproach I can make this beautiful whisky, which I did not see fit to add water because I was convinced he was titrating at 43 ° during my tasting, it is to say if the alcohol is well integrated.

Enthusiasm 4/5
Erik Elixir scored this whisky 88 points
25 Jun 2015 10:38 pm
Blind tasting with Longrow 18 -2014.

Nose

Oily, honey, pastry, peat and waxy. Tropical fruits, some polish and roasted barley.

Taste

Tropical fruits - pine apple, wax, ashes and some smoke. Plums and spices - pepper.

Finish

Briny, pastry, citrus and peat.
barryfox915 scored this whisky 88 points
04 Jun 2015 7:19 pm

Colour: Gold.
Nose: Meaty, peaty, smoky farmy, clean, slightly maritime, some
geranium, camphor and ashes.
Taste: Salty to very salty, maritime, peaty,
smoky, slightly meaty, with some cold ashes, on liquorice sweets and coconut
(pina colada). Rather clean. The finish is long, dry, peaty to very peaty,
smoky, on liquorice, with some seaweed and cold ashes.
General Impression: A
very good Longrow, mainly from 2nd and 3rd fill sherry casks, sharing several
similarities to the Longrows distilled in 1987, although slightly rounder and
more on liquorice.
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