ABV 40.5%
Perfectly balanced with poise and elegance. A must-buy!
Chris Goodrum
That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Brand
52 Years Old, Batch 1
Expression
Grain
Type
52
Age (Years)
2016
Year of Bottling
40.5%
ABV
Lowland
Region/Country
Independent Bottling
Bottling Type
Taster
Nose: Seriously mature and spicy with plenty of herbal dried grainy fruit and soft oak. Beautifully crisp and evocatively spicy with a light rum-like demeanour and hints of toasted vanilla and burnt wood.
Palate: A crisp and grainy start leads into liquorice, molasses and rummy dried fruit. Multi-layered and gorgeous, with a touch of silky vanilla and toasty oak on the middle.
Finish: Citric and spicy with a touch of drying tannins, but the sweet fruit lingers.
Comment: Perfectly balanced with poise and elegance. A must-buy!
Score: 9.2
Taster
Nose: A soft and well-balanced grain whisky, this gives sweet elements of brown sugar, some vanilla and toasted almonds with a big hit of chocolate praline.
Palate: More sweetness appears on the palate, with apricots, honey and some more of the white nuttiness coming through. There are also some light fruit cake notes and sultanas.
Finish: The sultana notes grow, as do the apricots.
Comment: A lovely, fruity number. I’d have a dram for sur
Score: 8.8
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