Dark and intense sherry aromas stand out majestically from the premium snifter and exude their bewitching aroma from afar. Dark raisins and dates mingle with subtle roasted aromas, ripe oranges and black cherries mix to a powerful and spicy nose. Cinnamon powder trickles into creamy milk chocolate, honey drips on the raisins and dates. The cinnamon flavor is becoming more intense, the dark forest honey ends in a strong caramel note. Minimal sulfur appears from time to time, the dark berries harmonize very well with the sweet caramel and the extreme cinnamon note. The creamy milk chocolate invites me opulently to the first sip, my salivation is almost unbraked ...

Dark berries and fruit flatter the tongue at the first sip, spicy hints and creamy wood tones follow. Alcohol immediately becomes noticeable with a pleasant burning sensation on the tongue and between the lips. Spices mix with fruity orange and black cherries, the milk chocolate transforms over time into bitter dark chocolate. Cherries and currants dissolve, creamy caramel ends in an intense spicy note. The cinnamon aroma from the nose is also very present in the taste and tasty. Intensive and voluminous, this malt exudes its sheer irrepressible power and leaves its chubby warmth with Christmas spices and dark fruit flavors on the palate.

Warm and powerful, the dark sherry flavors rest on the tongue. Dark chocolate mixes with a handful of hazelnuts. Spicy wood tones and a touch of leather exude an interesting aroma, again a hint of sulfur rises. The sulfur aroma is almost unnoticeable after a few moments, but the pleasant sharpness is intensified again, as are the ripe cherries and the cinnamon aroma.

Based on sampling at a friend's. The sherry's heavier than in 12,15 or 18yo OBs, and covers the alcohol very well even when nosing it undiluted. The smell is deeper than A'bunadh's, and I'd guess this is a PX cask [not entirely correct, turns out it's a vatting of Oloroso and PX]. Nosed neat: A bit of nail polish, not much wood. Dates, sugar, and something a bit fatty which I guess will round out with water. Neat it's just too punchy so I'll add 2 teaspoons of water. Now there's the smell of fresh paint from a metal can followed by a bit of dough, wet clay, and for some odd reason I'm reminded of the smell of unwrapping the kind of a hamburger you'd get from a grill stand at 4am. It is a very good nose, very even and well defined.

This one can and should take a lot of water. It's a total waste as long as the mouth stays vicious and burning but water opens it up. And what a body it is now: soft, but neither slick nor silky. Rather it's like plush on tongue and very, very juicy. Dark chocolate, liquorice and a good dose of sherry in a very condensed, powerful hit.

Delightfully lasting and full compared to Glendronach 12,15, 18 or 21. The way it lingers is very satisfying.

Restrained, shy, initially revealing very few aromas. There are grapes and blackberries slowly working their way forward, chervil and thyme add a pleasant spiciness. Opens up more and more, but remains discreet and is not intrusive. Cocoa, malt, fresh raisin bread.

Dried dates and figs, raisin bread, raspberry chewing gum, some menthol. Mild start. Fresh leather, tobacco leaves.

Quite short and with a minty spiciness on the lips. Pepper, Sugar Beet Syrup, Malt.

Leather, peel, lacquer and mint candy ... licorice ... exotic fruits ... pastry with orange (23)
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Spicy, creamy ... dried fruits and skin (23)
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Finish is long, warm ... a tree and a drop of varnish ... tobacco ... dried fruits and a wine bone ... orange and pepper (22)
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Beautiful and at the same time not overpowering sherry aromas. Hazelnuts, dark fruit compote of plums and cherries, old oak, brown sugar. Alcohol stings at first. Behind it a fresh note like herbal essence (thyme?). A few drops of water will loosen the fruit even more.

Strong mouthfeel, everything from the nose is there: dark fruit with plums and cherries, nuts, sparkling oak spice, white pepper. With the addition of water: milder and creamier, less oaky.

Medium length, tapering out nicely. Sweet compote, with an emphasis on oak notes towards the end, espresso, becoming dry on the tongue.

Raisin, nut, plum, tobacco, vanilla, oak, raspberry, fresh, lively, yet ripe

Strong attack, then sweet, but also oak, wild berries, plums, vanilla, hardly any bitterness

warm, oak, memory of the fruit