ABV: 43 %
Origin: Highlands
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and fruity. At first there’s a timid mix of sweetness and peat with a floral side note. It feels young and rough around the edges. Everything is very mellow and hard to get to. There’s a weird mineral note floating around and when it starts to settle there are some citrus fruits and some caramel popping up. This is a weird nose which manages to be all over the place and way too laid back and timid all at once.

Mouth: It starts out with mild mix of oranges, vanilla, honey and minerals. There’s a sour lemon in the back and soon the peat arrives and it’s a much bigger peatiness than before. There’s a nice little spicyness and the floral notes persists and almost feels soapy at this point. It still feels young and a bit spirity. There’s a bitterness building up in the back together with the lemon and there’s a burnt caramel in the center. It’s not logical whatsoever at this point.

Finish: The transition gives a slight increase in sourness and spicyness. When it comes down there’s a slight void in the middle and the peatiness is joined by an oakiness and the floral notes around the edges. As time goes by the oakiness takes over. It’s a chalky oakiness and it’s quite boring. The finish is flat and it never really manages to bring some order to the chaos. It just dies. This is a decent whisky overall. It’s not especially well made, but it still comes through as quite drinkable.

Additional information
There is no information to be found on the aging process of this whisky. It’s the only standard release of Teaninich, yet it is limited.

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