Douglas Laing / Speyside, Aged 15 Years

Douglas Laing

Single Minded

Speyside, Aged 15 Years

ABV 46%
REVIEWED Issue 143

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Specifications

Brand: Single Minded, Douglas Laing
Expression: Speyside, Aged 15 Years
Type: Scotland Whisky / Single Malt
Age: No Age Statement
Year of bottling: 2017
ABV: 46%
Country/Region: Scotland / Speyside
Bottling type: Independent Bottling

Tasting notes

Taster Mark Newton

Nose: Orchard fruits drizzled in golden syrup. Barley sugar and mixed peel. Sweet tablet. Lemonade. When the fruit fades it’s pleasantly vegetative, mossy and grassy.
Palate: A lovely medium-weight texture. Baked apple pies with a touch of ginger, covered in cream. Tonic water. Mead and a splash of grapefruit. Lemon sorbet.
Finish: Honeyed, with warming ginger and just a little sour acidity to knock it off balance.
Comment: This is very pleasing stuff indeed, with some refreshing, crisp flavours.

8.0

Taster Laura Foster

Nose: Spicy and floral up front: jasmine, fresh pine shavings and thyme. Tinned peaches and wet slate.
Palate: A whisky of two halves. At first it’s sweet, with pecan pie and vanilla ice cream. And then you get a bitter yellow grapefruit, lemon oils and tree sap in the second half.
Finish: Drying. The duality continues: more of those pecans, but this time sprinkled on a treacle tart, with the ever-present vanilla, alongside that grapefruit bitterness.
Comment: For the Dr Jekylls and Mr Hydes out there.

7.6

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