Clynelish
7.8

Clynelish

14 Years Old

ABV 46%

Clean, fresh, and summery. Nice neat, but I’d like this in a highball.

Christopher Coates

Specification

Clynelish

Brand

Diageo

Bottler

14 Years Old

Expression

Single Malt

Type

14

Age (Years)

46%

ABV

Highland

Region/Country

Standard (Distillery or blended)

Bottling Type

Tasting Notes

Christopher Coates

Taster

Nose: Under-ripe peach, avocado, and dried pineapple. Sawn oak, porridge with cream, vanilla custard, and candied orange.

Palate: Medium-light. Intense orange, like eating jaffa cakes with a glass of orange soda. Under that, there’s lemon boiled sweets and some custard cream biscuits.

Finish: Medium-long. It fades slowly to candied lemon peels.

Comment: Clean, fresh, and summery. Nice neat, but I’d like this in a highball.

Score: 7.7

Bethany Whymark

Taster

Nose: Nutty and woody: pecan pie and new oak. Lemon, black pepper, coriander seed, roasted chestnut, toffee apple, and lime curd.

Palate: Medium bodied. Treacle sponge pudding with sugary date chunks and a little crystallised ginger. Oat-milk coffee. Cooked pears in syrup. Hints of nutmeg and clove. Lemon meringue pie.

Finish: Medium, on caramel latte, lemon zest, and a little oaky spicy.

Comment: Very nicely balanced and very sippable.

Score: 8

7.8
Overall Score

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