![]() ![]() With water: oh, fresh croissants, Chablis, honeysuckle, oatcake and chalk. Nose: Danishes, lemon tarte (with meringue!), custard, gianduja and earl grey. I mean, we used to believe they were rare… Colour: gold. There, one of those rare non-sherried ones. Be diplomatic.Īberlour 21 yo 1999/2020 (51.2%, OB, selected by La Maison du Whisky for Jack Tar, Poland, 1st fill American oak barrel, cask #3856, 156 bottles) Comments: a tough guy from the country, a style that's a little unusual at Maltbarn. Apple peel in the aftertaste, plus a little muscovado. With water: nicer, with some grapefruits and gooseberries, plus the usual walnuts. Or green tea with a little lapsang souchong added to the teapot. New artisan plum spirit (damsons) and some kind of rubbery green tea. Mouth (neat): raw, rustic, robust, bitterish and extremely leafy. With water: sour cream, mashed celeriac and turnip, then indeed peaches and greengages. Gas, gun smoke, perhaps even sheep cheese, rubber… All that before orchard fruits would start to play their roles. Nose: a rather leafy and leathery one at first, with some green walnuts, bay leaves and a wee butyric side. ![]() But sorry, I feel like I'm babbling on like a blogging parrot today, so to the whisky please… By the way, have I ever told about… (S., please!)Īberlour 12 yo 2008/2021 (52.3%, Maltbarn, sherry cask, 160 bottles)Ĭolour: gold. Which happened to us at Aberlour… Having said that, this will be a sherried expression. At that time and since it was Macallan's heyday, stumbling upon a Speysider that was ex-bourbon rather than ex-sherry was like crossing the path of a tomato with wheels (copyright Edmund, Lord Blackadder). There's been excesses in both directions… But well, this will be Aberlour. What I seem to remember is that at Glenrothes, they had been flying the national flags of each and every one of us in front of the Distillery! We couldn't believe our eyes but it's true that distillers, in the early days of the Web, were still wondering 'how to handle those strange people from the Internet'. What's sure is that it was either Aberlour or Glenrothes, both great places anyway. It was one of the first two Distilleries we've visited with the Malt Maniacs, a long time ago. Aberlour is another favourite at Château Whiskyfun.
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