Kilkerran – 8 Year Old – Cask Strength Sherry Cask
Aroma: Dirty sherry with a salty leathery quality that hangs over the top and fills your nasal passages with rich, deep aromas. It is musty, with a deeply earthy, yet citrus sharp quality. Taste: At first, both salty and sweet. There is an accrid smoke, which … Continued
Talisker – 8 Year Old – Cask Strength
Aroma: This has a distinct medicinal aroma that hits you at first waft. For me, I smelt moments of my childhood, when forced by circumstance I had to wait for my mum to finish her shift as a nurse on a hospital ward … Continued
Whisky Broker – Glen Grant – 28 Year Old
Aroma: This a honey sweet whisky, full of buttery sweet pastry aromas. There is rich, tart apple aroma that combines with a round wide woodenness. Something about it is musty and minty at the same time too. Taste: On the palate, this whisky begins syrupy sweet. … Continued
Campbeltown Loch – 21 Year Old
Aroma: At first there were ethanolic aromas, which mingle with stewed apples and vanilla cream. Then there is an oaky furniture polish note that comes later that is accompanied by a fruity sweetness, which at times reminded me of Irn Bru. Taste: At first a hugely … Continued
AnCnoc – 18 Year Old
Aroma: Leathery, fruity heather notes linger over the top of stewed apples and caramelised sugar. There is spice, but it is gentle and twisted with an oily citrus note. Taste: Sweet sherried dried fruits start this whisky, think fruit loaf with its malty … Continued
Glen Moray – Rhum Agricole
Aroma: When I first nosed this whisky, I found classic Speyside whisky aroma notes, such as apples and pears, brown sugar and vanilla. But with more nosing, there is a sweet, jammy fruit nose and a grassy, coconut. Taste: On the … Continued
Suntory – The Hakushu – 12 Year Old
Aroma: Leathery, crisp green apple and a waft of charcoal chimney smoke. Taste: First there is a sweet floral honey flavour, which is green and takes me to a summery meadow. Then in the middle there is a dry quality that is like sun dried grass, combined … Continued
Starward – Two Fold
Aroma: At first a takeaway hot apple pie, perhaps provided by a purveyor known for its golden arches. There is caramelised sugar, stewed apples and buttery pastry. This is followed by a drying vinous berry fruit quality and malty fruit. Taste: First, there is a silky sweetness … Continued
Chorlton – Tomintoul 14 Year Old
Aroma: There is a really complex aroma to this dram. It is at first sweet with a creamy sherbet aroma, like DibDabs. It then becomes a musty sherry fruit, but at the end there is a sweet, toffee popcorn aroma. … Continued
Benromach 15 Year Old
Aroma: At first, I found this whisky smelt like rusty iron. Then there was a sweetness of fruit and finally a delicate smokiness. It is somehow earthy, but also has a fizzy sweets smell – maybe Wham bars? Taste: Initially this has a heathery … Continued
