59,3°
Distillery Officially Unknown - Highlands
Bourbon Barrel
Independent Bottling
By Whiskybase.com
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2024
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Almost Unpeated
Whiskybase is probably the most popular whisky website in the world. In fact, it's so efficient that it has already referenced more than 250,000 bottles. To celebrate this unprecedented event, this bottling has been released, not by Archives, the trading company belonging to the site's owners, but directly by the site itself, Whiskybase.com. The distillery is secret, but rumours suggest Clynelish, which would not be surprising. The maturation is very simple and took 16 years, with 247 bottles produced.
Let's Taste It :
Juicy white fruits, plums and mirabelles, banana, melting white chocolate, vanilla pastry cream, intense candle wax. White peaches, yellow apples, Comices pears, liquid honey, beeswax, royal jelly. A pinch of salt, mineral notes, minimal peat. On the palate, oily almonds, chocolate cookies, salted butter caramel, hazelnuts, a zest of lemon. Very light spices. Long and beautiful finish, dried fruits, apricots, raisins, dates, blood oranges. Shortbread biscuits, chestnuts. Lemon macerated in herbs.
In Short,
To me, this is definitely a Clynelish, and an excellent one. The influence of the cask is just strong enough to enhance the distillery's waxy and lemony character, giving a fruity and very distinctive result, close to perfection. What's more, the price is very low for a 16-year-old single cask, so all those who pounced on this bottle as soon as it was released were totally right. On the other hand, it's sold out now, and I think the price on the secondary market will be much higher.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Ain't Sisters - Heart Attack
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