Can't find the right idea for this tasting: sherry and bourbon? Speyside and Islay?
Glendronach 21 yo Parliament 48% - nice strength and nice age.
Nose: tons of sherry, dark berries, prunes, but later it goes into struck match and sulphur, can't say I enjoy it.
Taste: dense and sweet with lots of boiled fruits.
Finish: long, sweet, spices and coffee, slightly woody.
Overall: too much sherry for me, I'd prefer 15 yo Revival both in terms of taste and price. But certainly recommended for sherrymonstromaniacs.
Score = 20 22 23 22, 87/100!
Benromach 30 yo 43% - owned now by Gordon & MacPhail who are making their best out of this distillery.
Nose: elegant, citrus and pear, sweet apricots, wood and spices, it's an old malt, baby!
Taste: mellow fruit jam, tobacco and leather, touch of citrus and spices.
Finish: long one on spices and wood, rich and generous with lovely hint of wood smoke.
Overall: very fairly priced 30 yo malt.
Score = 23 21.5 22.5 23, 90/100!
Nose: elegant, citrus and pear, sweet apricots, wood and spices, it's an old malt, baby!
Taste: mellow fruit jam, tobacco and leather, touch of citrus and spices.
Finish: long one on spices and wood, rich and generous with lovely hint of wood smoke.
Overall: very fairly priced 30 yo malt.
Score = 23 21.5 22.5 23, 90/100!
Laphroaig 18 yo 1997/2016 Berrys' Best cask #66 52.2% - bottled for 60th Anniversary of La Maison du Whisky, just 240 bottles in existence (already much fewer I believe).
Nose: smoky and fresh (don't ask me how that can be) with lots of oysters.
Taste: peaty and salty, not more, though not less :) Powerful and convincing.
Finish: long and smoky, sweet rubber and oysters in sea water.
Overall: it's like Black square Malevich painting, pure idea of Laphroaig itself, Laphroaig eidos, not a single excess detail.
Score = 22.5 22.5 22.5 22.5, 90/100!
Nose: smoky and fresh (don't ask me how that can be) with lots of oysters.
Taste: peaty and salty, not more, though not less :) Powerful and convincing.
Finish: long and smoky, sweet rubber and oysters in sea water.
Overall: it's like Black square Malevich painting, pure idea of Laphroaig itself, Laphroaig eidos, not a single excess detail.
Score = 22.5 22.5 22.5 22.5, 90/100!
Port Ellen 28 yo 1978/2006 Douglas Laing Platinum 56.1% - the colour gives idea of sherry cask maturation.
Nose: sweet with touch of peat, salt and smoked fruits.
Taste: lapsang souchong tea, peat again, dense and thick.
Finish: salty, meaty, almost salami in there, is that sherry cask work? :)
Overall: it's quite nice, though you expect from Port Ellen even more...
Score = 22 22 22 22, 88/100!
Nose: sweet with touch of peat, salt and smoked fruits.
Taste: lapsang souchong tea, peat again, dense and thick.
Finish: salty, meaty, almost salami in there, is that sherry cask work? :)
Overall: it's quite nice, though you expect from Port Ellen even more...
Score = 22 22 22 22, 88/100!
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