51,8°
Distilleries Officially Unknown - Speyside
Bourbon Hogsheads
Independent Bottling
By William Cadenhead Limited
Limited Edition
Blended Malt
Bottled in 2024
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Totally Unpeated
It's not every day you get to taste a whisky from the last century, and even if you don't know exactly where it comes from, it would be absurd to refuse. Here we have a Blended Malt aged in Bourbon Hogsheads distilled in 1997, the distilleries of origin are officially unknown, but somebody whispered in my ears something like Glenfiddich and Balvenie. It's a teaspooned whisky, meaning that most of the juice comes from a single distillery, but they've added a very small proportion of juice from elsewhere, to classify it as a Blended Malt and lower the selling price. 1140 bottles were filled.
Let's Taste It :
Very light nose, with forest notes, scents of pinewood, pine cones, resin, dry earth, humus. Toasted wheat and other cereals, oats, barley. Heather honey, cinnamon. Some white fruit in the background, mirabelle plums, yellow apples. It's windy and dusty. The palate is a little more expressive and balanced, cereals, vanilla, pastry cream, hot caramel, discreet spices, nutmeg. Deep and complex finish, muesli, cola, ginger, hints of wood. Coal, damp earth.
In Short,
When I read the other reviews about this one, and see that they have nothing to do, I say to myself that there is some mystery in this bottle, so that we can all find something different in it. What I found was a classic Speyside, old school, quite foresty, well made, that will delight fans of the profile. It is still on sale on the Cadenhead website, at a price that I would describe as decent, especially for a 27 year old.
Score : 87
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Yuuf - Lever du sol
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