16 Mar 2015

Notes from the February tasting

Speyburn 10

Bottle

• Age: 10
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma Grass clippings, lime jollyranger, marmalaide

  Taste Lime jollyranger, summer field, very bright

  Finish tart, overly sweet, candyish

Balvenie 15 Year Single Barrel

Bottle

• Age: 15
• Alcohol: 47.8%

• Tasting Notes Aroma maple syrup, citrus, green apple, lone maple tree growing in an apple orchard

  Taste green apple that ripens in your mouth baked into cinnamon apple pie, citrus, lemon

  Finish buttery

Macallan 1824 Amber

Bottle

• Age: No age statement
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma burnt orange, citrus, redwood/woody, sauna

  Taste brown sugar, cloves/olives

  Finish orange

Glenrothes Alba R Speyside

Bottle

• Age: No age statement
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma honey, lemon pledge

  Taste honey at the bottom of your tea, lemon

  Finish honey suckle, lingering sweet

Benromach 10 Year

Bottle

• Age: 10
• Alcohol: 43%

• Tasting Notes Aroma grass fields, grains, leather (tackle room on a trailer), cereal

  Taste burnt, leathery, barbequed fish

  Finish mellows off disappointingly

Cardhu 12 Year

Bottle

• Age: 12
• Alcohol: 40%

• Tasting Notes Aroma subtle sweet, mulch, leather from the long sought after orange cow, fall leaves, earthy

  Taste carmelized sugar, thick, rich

  Finish pepper

Aberlour A’bunadh

Bottle

• Age: No age statement
• Alcohol: 60.1%

• Tasting Notes Aroma burnt orange, leather, ginger

  Taste carmelized ginger

  Finish mellows

Glendronach Parliament 21 Year

Bottle

• Age: 21
• Alcohol: 48%

• Tasting Notes Aroma ripe orange, wofts of lemon, toffee, banana, cereal

  Taste cereal, brown sugar, banana

  Finish nutty banana bread, prosciutto

Til next time,
The Whisky Oriented Development team

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