54,8°
Distillery : Clynelish - Highlands
Bourbon Hogshead
Independent Bottling
By Sansibar
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2020
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 8 ppm
Sansibar released half a dozen Clynelish with the same age in 2020, but this one is special, launched to celebrate the German bottler's 10th anniversary. Only 283 bottles have been put on sale. The label features a black and white drawing of the distillery, as it belongs to the Black White Art series, a set of 5 bottlings from different distilleries, each adorned with the same drawing of its place of origin.
Let's Taste It :
Nice waxy fullness, beeswax and floor wax, candied lemon, sliced lime, a maritime touch, sea air, sea spray, discreet peat, exotic fruit and citrus, grapefruit and pineapple, maybe even mango. The whole remains very airy. Concentrated vanilla. It's very delicate and silky on the palate, with mirabelle plums and greengages, topped with olive oil, prickly pears, shortbread biscuits, very well-controlled spices. Very long and explosive finish, hazelnuts, syrupy honey, churned butter, wood varnish, chocolate chips, lovely power, incredible length, beer yeast, very ripe apricots, yellow peaches, bananas. Some cereals at the end, crunchy and greedy. A hint of bitterness, cola.
In Short,
Pure Clynelish, an explosion of pleasure and complexity. We're approaching the very best that this distillery can give us here, with a very simple maturation process. A must-have if you're a fan, but the price is astronomical and it's practically sold out everywhere.
Score : 91
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Irfan - More Ta Nali
