I often produce these notes for my bottle share friends but at Joe's request I'm putting them on the blog for wider consumption! They're micro-tasting notes though, just a brief impression, an initial grading and an indication if I think the whisky is a consideration to buy. Hopefully this will be of use if you want to work out where to focus your attention in July.
Cheers!
July outturn micro tasting notes.
Code
|
Distillery
|
Name
|
Age
|
Price
|
N
|
B
|
F
|
Comments
|
Score
|
123.8
|
Glengoyne
|
In the Spanish mountains
|
12
|
50.70
|
Wax, sour, beautiful, challenging
|
Fiery, spiced, woody
|
Long, balanced
|
Refill ex-port pipe
Quite challenging, bitter wood. The delivery didn’t live up to the
lovely port nose.
|
A+
|
2.87
|
Glenlivet
|
Satisfying as a butcher’s blade
|
21
|
89
|
Lovely, balanced wood, orange zest
|
Caramel, chocolate orange, fizzing
|
Refreshers, balanced, clean/sweet
|
Fruity, delicious, balanced, lots of structure.
Buy.
|
A⊕
|
7.101
|
Longmorn
|
Playing with colours
|
10
|
48.40
|
Rich wood, burnt toffee, hint of petrol
|
Stunning wood and sweet integrn
|
Medium, balanced, toffee
|
Robust and intensely sweet, rather good.
Buy.
|
A⊕
|
117.3
|
Cooley
|
Hubba-bubba, mango and Monstera
|
25
|
335
|
Sexy, ice pops, blue raspberry ice lolly, tropical, mango, creamy
fruit
|
Bubblegum, oak and meat
|
Long, meaty, musky and hammy
|
Intense and dirty, spectacular nose.
Good but not £335 good.
|
A⊕
|
35.114
|
Glen Moray
|
A Southern gentleman
|
19
|
65.60
|
Dark Stagg tones, but a little more restrained. Very good.
|
Dark fruit and intense sappy wood
|
Fabulous, long sap and depth
|
Toasted oak hogshead
Very smooth and intense, quite exciting but very bourbon like. Great
value for this mini Stagg, with a similar feel but a bit more restrained (and
good for it)
|
A⊕
|
1.181
|
Glenfarclas
|
Vintage car in a rose-garden
|
11
|
45
|
Bright, sappy, cherry sweet tobacco
|
Spicy wood, very sharp
|
Intense sweet and bitterness, darkly toffee
|
Very interesting but quite strange.
Buy
|
A
|
39.100
|
Linkwood
|
Exotic contradictions
|
23
|
87.20
|
Bright cherry, waxed wood and rosemary. Perfumed and fried
courgettes.
|
Ripe wood, banana, stewed apples
|
Long toffee, balanced but intensely sweet
|
Deep intensity of wood and boiled sugar.
Buy
|
A⊕
|
73.60
|
Aultmore
|
Tarts in a tea house
|
24
|
92.40
|
Floral, sweet, toast and honey
|
Lightly peated, clean and balanced. Good, bright wood.
|
Medium, astringent, bitterness at end.
|
Very interesting, loses it in the finish
|
A+
|
36.77
|
Benrinnes
|
Wee secrets of flavour
|
17
|
56.70
|
Forest fruit and yoghurt, pine needles and cigar tobacco. Cross
channel ferry and crayon.
|
Rich oak and grapefruit, fizzy.
|
Quite long, sweet and varnished oak. Good tropical back notes.
|
Very interesting but quite challenging with the fizzing fresh wood
Buy
|
A+
|
76.116
|
Mortlach
|
Tangier market
|
26
|
117.70
|
Ripe red fruit, banana and plum wine
|
Instant hit of toffee penny. Great structure, wax and marzipan.
|
Meaty, rich and numbing. Waxed.
|
Interesting, balanced, rich, darkly wooded. Lovely.
Buy
|
A⊕+
|
9.86
|
Glen Grant
|
Sangria on the terrace
|
16
|
Offers
|
Elegant rich and ripe plum. Well balanced wood, furniture polish.
|
Spicy and licked joss sticks
|
Long, complex, astringent.
|
Fabulous wood intensity and well integrated, good candle wax on the
nose.
Interesting bitter peat complexity, long wood sour. Very good.
|
A⊕+
|
3.226
|
Bowmore
|
Cigar smoke and Newhaven fish boxes
|
16
|
59.40
|
Fresh and rich smoked fish, meaty.
|
Sweet peat, rich and beautiful, raisins and smoked mackerel
|
Sharp and astringent, bitterness at the end.
|
More great peat, sweet richness. Not as good as 3.221 or 3.219 (recent
refill sherry Bowmore hits)
|
A⊕
|
53.206
|
Caol Ila
|
Ooh Matron!
|
18
|
71.70
|
Austere but mad max. Masculine.
|
Perfectly rich, ashen, peat and sweet intensity.
|
Darkly ashen and ripe.
|
Hard to fault – some bitterness at the end but otherwise wonderful
stuff.
Buy
|
|
Old, rare specials
|
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66.47
|
Ardmore
|
Campfire character
|
11
|
45
|
Vinegar sour and cigar, charred wood and leather
|
Herbal, cigars
|
Toffee
|
A⊕
|
|
21.27
|
Glenglassaugh
|
Enticement of sweet oak
|
39
|
439
|
Sweet soft toffee, tobacco and wagon wheels
|
Long, deep perfection of leather, oak and chocolate caramel
|
Long tobacco and herbs
|
A⊕⊕
|
|
59.43
|
Teaninich
|
Caramel swirl ice cream
|
29
|
137.20
|
Beautiful rich, complex nose. Bright, herbal, astringent, lightly
wooded, toffee
|
Sweet, structured
|
Long, beautiful
|
Buy
|
A⊕+
|
72.30
|
Miltonduff
|
Fruit, fruit, fruit!
|
29
|
117.80
|
Acrylic paint, citrus fruit, thinners
|
Sweet and balanced, lightly fruited, great wood balance
|
Buy
|
A⊕+
|
|
10.76
|
Bunnahabhain
|
Duelling banjos dram
|
8
|
52.20
|
Buy
|
A⊕
|
34
a little over 100
Buy
A⊕
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