Hammerhead / 25 Years Old - Whisky Magazine

Hammerhead

25 Years Old

ABV 40.7%
REVIEWED Issue 170

Click below to share this page

Specifications

Brand:
Expression: 25 Years Old
Type: Czech Republic Whisky / Single Malt
Age: 25 years old
ABV: 40.7%
Country/Region: Czech Republic
Bottling type: Standard (Distillery or blended)

Tasting notes

Taster Becky Paskin

Nose: Super funky, a white wine and rum-spiked cheese fondue and crusty wholemeal bread. It settles into dried fruit (raisins, apple pieces) with rum ‘n’ raisin ice cream, and the piney note remains.
Palate: Very sweet, almost saccharine-like, with fresh apple. There’s more green, piney wood notes with some anise and eucalyptus, while the butyric (cheese) creates a waxy texture.
Finish: Sandalwood and spice with cheese fondue and dried apple.
Comment: Unexpected, but that’s what 25 years of maturation in Czech oak does.

7.4

Taster Rob Allanson

Nose: Full-on woody notes come through at first, opening a wooden chest full of pine cones and damp moss. Earthy. Flapjacks with honey and dark chocolate.
Palate: Heads into an almost savoury side of things, tomatoes and soft goat’s cheese, but then sweetens up swiftly. Heather honey, blueberry compote and red cherry jam.
Finish: The earthy, cedar chest box quality returns to slowly dry out with very aromatic wood.
Comment: It’s like someone locked you in an old pine cupboard with a packet of oat biscuits. Great fun.

7.3

Don’t have an account? Sign up here:

Create and view your own tasting notes and scores for individual whiskies.

Create your own Wish List
Create your own Collections
Write your own tasting notes for each bottle
Score whiskies creating a unique community score where whiskies are rated taking the average from every Whsiky Magazine member

Create your account