ABV: 43 %
Origin: Highlands
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and fruity. At first there’s a vanilla and red apple center part with baking spices sprinkled on top. There’s honey and a slightly funky maltiness as well. It feels slightly young and spirity, but that isn’t overpowering the character as a whole. With time in the glass the sherry notes start to take up more space with ripe and dried darker fruits and berries. It feels like a hint of peat is in there as well but it might be a tobacco note from the sherry. It feels decently balanced overall. This is a nice nose. It lacks a bit of complexity and age, but it’s pleasant enough.

Mouth: It starts out slightly flat with a spirit driven frontside and a bitterness in the background as a starting point. It does increase in intensity a bit and there are notes of caramel, cocnut and vanilla coming through. It feels a bit boring at this point but the tobacco note and the funky malt do arrive and make it somewhat better. The fruitiness is almost hiding far back and the baking spices, although detectable, doesn’t bring much to the table.

Finish: The transition is logical and just a continuation from the mouth. There’s an immidiate wood spicyness spreading out and it doesn’t give much of the other flavours any chance to follow along down the finish. The bitter note, maybe dark chocolate, do follow as well as a small hint of the dark fruits, but the main event is a very aromatic and sawdusty oakiness. There’s some bad refill casks involved as well it seems. This is a decent whisky, but it lacks power, complexity and depth to be great.

Additional information
This whisky was aged in a mix of ex-bourbon barrels and sherry seasoned european and american oak casks. The bottle tested is from batch 3.

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