ABV: 40 %
Origin: Speyside
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 heavy vanilla sweetness with a young spirity note on top. After a while it shifts towards caramel with a hint of fruits underneath. It takes a while before the fruitiness turns into something substantial and when it does, it’s an apples and pears mix. When it finally settles in the glass there’s a decent balance overall. This is an okey nose. It lacks a bit of flavour, complexity and comes through as too mild to be interesting.

Mouth: It starts out with a few seconds of nothingness and a young spirit note before a rush of flavour components start to compete to reach the front. There’s a black pepper spicyness on top of some fresh fruits. Underneath lies a mix of ripe fruits and a very bitter coffee note. There are pears, bananas and overripe plums coming through. It’s much more flavourful in taste than on the nose. It feels a bit all over the place though, with a lack of general direction.

Finish: The transition really highlights the overripe plums and the caramel. Soon it reveals a bitter and nutty oakiness and a lemon sourness in the back. The spirity note is sitting on top of everything throughout the finish. After that it really doubles down on a grey old bitter oakiness which actually works pretty well. This is a good whisky with a nice array of flavours. It lacks power, complexity, age and balance.

Additional information
This entry level whisky was aged in refill casks, ex-bourbon barrels and ex-sherry casks for an undisclosed anoumt of time. The bottle tried is apparently from batch 1106.

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