22 Nov 2014

Notes from the November tasting

Old Pulteney 17

Bottle

• Age: 17
• Alcohol: 46%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Sweet plum, chestnuts

  Taste Oatmeal with brown sugar, overly sweet, vanilla, butterscotch

  Finish lingering sweet, cinnimon flavour

Dalwhinnie 15

Bottle

• Age: 15
• Alcohol: 43%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Lemon, grass, citrus

  Taste pineapple, cherrywood, tart, brown sugar

  Finish Vanilla, hay

Edradour 10

Bottle

• Age: 10
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Sherry, cherry, almonds

  Taste short flavor, chili, sour

  Finish builds to a rich vanilla, chili powder

Tullibardine 20

Bottle

• Age: 20
• Alcohol: 43%

• Tasting Notes Aroma peanut brittle, brown sugar

  Taste red grapes, wheat, green apple

  Finish buttery, rich without strong flavour

Oban 14

Bottle

• Age: 14
• Alcohol: 43%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Old book pages, christmas oranges soaked in lemon

  Taste christmas oranges soaked in medicine, oily, mild spice

  Finish Turning into sweet, oils, almost burnt toast

Dalmore Cigar Malt

Bottle

• Age: No age statement
• Alcohol: 44%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Wood floor (of a cabin), leather, roasted marshmallow, caramel corn

  Taste cherries, roses, pit fruit, too sweet maple, burnt caramel

  Finish leading into sour, gently escaping smoke, the unwelcome touch of a master distiller

Aberfeldy 12

Bottle

• Age: 12
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Peaches, Caramel, cereal, hints of smoke

  Taste light smoke, chocolate orange

  Finish subtly declines

Loch Lomond Peated Single Malt (Green Label)

Bottle

• Age: No age statement
• Alcohol: 46%

• Tasting Notes Aroma smoke, almonds, earthy, rotting moss, dried ferns

  Taste the bogg or dispair, takes a long time to develop into smoke, kilts and figs, boggy rum

  Finish smoked peat, slightly less dried ferns

Til next time,
The Whisky Oriented Development team

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