Inchgower Distillery
ABV 46%
Choose the 1974 over this one, although if you are a fan of sherry cask led malt this may be your thing.
Arthur Motley
Berrys' Own Selection
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Brand
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Bottler
1980
Expression
Single Malt
Type
No age statement
Age (Years)
2006
Year of Bottling
46%
ABV
Speyside
Region/Country
Independent Bottling
Bottling Type
Taster
Nose: Both jammy and meaty, think of venison and redcurrant jelly. Water turned it a bit grubby, but this note settled to become like an earthy, forest floor. Some sweet, wine-like fruitness is there too.
Palate: Sweet and jammy, then drying.
Finish: Tannic, with a dry and husky, aftertaste like you get when you chew peated barley.
Comment: Choose the 1974 over this one, although if you are a fan of sherry cask led malt this may be your thing.
Score: 7.3
Taster
Nose: Plenty of stone fruit and vanilla. A Viognier like fleshy peachiness as well as a certain oiliness, but it's peaches from a parallel universe. Fruit, Jim, but not quite as we know it. Mature, with a flor-like nuttiness. Yeasty. It's all intriguingly odd.
Palate: Great age on show here, manages to balance the oak with a toffee-ed depth.
Finish: Nut shell.
Comment: Just lacks a little length. Not as pure as the 74, but I like its weirdness.
Score: 7.8
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