Inchmurrin 2003 Limited Edition Specially Selected by WhiskyNerds 14 yo c. 17/171-1

 

 

 

54,6°

Distillery : Loch Lomond - Highlands

Refill Ex-Sherry Butt and 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Cask, Refill Sherry Finish

Original Bottling 

Limited Edition 

Single Malt 

Bottled in 2017 

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength

Almost Unpeated

Inchmurrin is one of the many brands used by the Loch Lomond distillery. Here it is the third part of a trio of bottlings selected in 2017 by WhiskyNerds, a Dutch bottler. The bottling is original though, WhiskyNerds only selected the two casks that produced the three expressions. The first two were the product of a Bourbon cask and a Sherry cask. For the third, they vatted what was left in the two previous casks, and put the whole thing to finish in a Refill Sherry cask. The result is these  495 bottles. Although it is designated as a Single Cask, that's what it says on the label, it's not a Single Cask! Only the finishing took place in a single cask.

 

 

 

Let's Taste It : 

Rather fruity, cherries and blackberries, blueberry tart, dark chocolate, peat with charcoal, slate, vegetal moss, old wood, cereals, it's quite country-like. Good soil for ploughing. On the palate, vegetable soup, turnip and green beans, garlic, liquorice and crushed figs, wild strawberries, intense and varied spices, black tea, artichoke heart. Freshly cut grass. Long, full finish, a bit explosive, damp undergrowth, bark, chestnut leaf, black earth. Forest berries. 

In Short, 

I found it very foresty and relatively smoky, despite the fact that there is virtually no peat. Others found it very fruity and expressive. In any case, there is no doubt that this is an extremely interesting one. It is no longer available, perhaps at auction, at what appears to be a fair price.

Score : 89

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                                           Brendan Perry - Tree of Life