ABV 49.3%
It's my first taste of North Port so I can't decide if the distillery character has been blurred or not by sherry. Like a bulldozer after an earthquake.
Martine Nouet
Douglas Laing
Old Malt Cask
Brand
Douglas Laing
Bottler
Aged 36 Years
Expression
Single Malt
Type
36
Age (Years)
49.3%
ABV
Highland
Region/Country
Independent Bottling
Bottling Type
Taster
Nose: Big and pungent. Fruit and wood. Cider apple, damson plums, honey. Dark chocolate.
Palate: Sour fruitiness. The spices and biting alcohol is hardly tolerable, even with water. Wood dominates maltiness. Reminiscent of a rye whiskey.
Finish: Robust, warm, biting.
Comment: It's my first taste of North Port so I can't decide if the distillery character has been blurred or not by sherry. Like a bulldozer after an earthquake.
Score: 7.5
Taster
Nose: Cedary. Newly sawn wood. Resin. Oil of peppermint.
Palate: Oily. Black chocolate. Bitter.
Finish: Drying. Musty. Woody.
Comment: Of interest to collectors, historians and the likes of me, but this Brechin brew, staunched in 1983, never made a great whisky.
Score: 6.8
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