46°
Distillery : Glengyle - Campbeltown
70% Ex-Bourbon and 30% Ex-Sherry Casks
Original Bottling
Limited Edition
Single Malt
Bottled in 2022
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured
Peated from 12 to 15 ppm
Every year now, we are entitled to an edition of the 16 Year Old. This one is the third, with slightly more Sherry casks. 7,000 bottles have been released.
Let's Taste It :
Warm and mellow brioche, vanilla yoghurt, very light peat, spices. Cinnamon, baked apple, candied lemon, with a trail of hay, dry earth. Mountain honey, quite solid. Very soft minerality, silica, quartz. On the palate, it's mellower, fruitier, juicy white plums, banana, some discreet exotic fruits, guava, sand and salt, white pepper. The finish is long and beautiful, very successful, very fine charcoal, with warm chestnuts and a few peanuts. Loose cereals.
In Short,
Even with 30% of the casks, the Sherry remains hardly remarkable. The nose and finish are really pleasant though, but I found the palate a little below par. Like the previous year's, it's good, but you'd expect better from a 16-year-old. The price is a tad high.
Score : 88
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Sikvert Hoyern - Majesty
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