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Clynelish 1989 (2012, Thosop by The Whiskyman, 53,5%)

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Our Aberlour week continues with a deeper focus on

Our Aberlour week continues with a deeper focus on the distillery.⁣
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The distillery has been established right next to Spey river which flows directly over the pink granite Ben Rinnes mountain, in the small village of Aberlour.⁣
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The distillery is owned by the Pernod-Ricard group and is in the list of the top 10 best-selling Scotch single malt whiskies in the world with a production of 3.9 million liters per year and 50% is used for single malt!⁣
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The two pair of traditional coal fired pot stills produce a medium-weight single malt, Aberlour’s character balances malt, fruit and wine due to high usage of sherry casks.⁣
The distillery tour is one of the absolute best in the Speyside region with a great tasting and the chance to hand fill a bottle from either an ex-bourbon or ex-sherry cask.⁣
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The core range is composed by 5 different products: the 12yo, 16yo, 18yo and the two NAS A'Bunadh and Casg Annamh.⁣
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Which is your favorite Aberlour?⁣
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Aberlour week!⁣ ⁣ After the Arran week it's ti

Aberlour week!⁣
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After the Arran week it's time to move to Aberlour, just in time before our summer giveaway (spoiler alert, stay tuned).⁣
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Aberlour A'Bunadh is not exactly a Summer Whisky, being a sherry bomb 100% matured in Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strength (this batch at 59,2%), but we really felt like having one, perhaps it's the consequence of our overeated brain.⁣
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Aberlour has been established in 1879 by James Flaming, in a magical location, alongside the Spey river, it is now owned by Pernod Ricard.⁣
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This A'Bunadh is prodced in batch releases (this is the bath 66)and has an incredible story!⁣
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The term A'bunadh is Scotch Gaelic, and means “of the origins.” In 1975, during the installation of two new stills, workmen discovered a time capsule that contained a bottle of Aberlour with a newspaper from 1898 wrapped around it. A'bunadh is an attempt to re-create the style of Aberlour whisky from that period.⁣
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a single ex-sherry hogshead first fill by Arran Di

a single ex-sherry hogshead first fill by Arran Distillery, bottled by Whisky Broker – a company that, in fact, acts as a broker of barrels and occasionally bottles them, typically at ridiculously low prices. The color is dark amber

N: well, what a nice impact! Big chocolate, pretty rich and fraught, very dark. Boeri. A bit closed, vinous and sharp. A deep sherried nose, which at times tends to brewed tea. Very intense black pepper, freshly ground. Then a very dense fruity side opens up: burnt raisins, plum jam, black figs and lots of cola. Even panettone. With water it becomes more lively and sweet: bread, butter and blackberry jam.

P: very good, intense, clearly cask strength. More plums, dark chocolate and cherry again, but here the protagonist is licorice, pure and powerful. Less fruity than the nose, but still very juicy. Clotted jam, cooked grape must. Also nice fat and black. Not particularly sweet, it shows that tannic / woody part that often characterizes the aging in Oloroso: nocino? Someone also notices a hint of sulfur, like meat sauce. With a few drops of water it becomes much more agile in the evolution of flavors. More pepper and even a little bit of chinotto emerge.

F: very long, coating and intense, again licorice. Less sweet.

A dark sherry monster, initially a bit closed, that on the nose plays between chocolate and black fruit, combining intensity and a great body: it requires a splash of water, try it and you won’t be disappointed. The influence of the cask is dominant, very difficult to capture the DNA of the distillery. What is much easier to grasp is the quality of a complex and succulent bottling as it is not very easy to find, especially so young: 88/100

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Arran is a craft distillery, with a very low annua

Arran is a craft distillery, with a very low annual production: the capacity is today of 1200000 liters per year, but it has never distilled at full capacity. The raw materials are fundamental: the choice was to use only malted barley produced in Scotland, favoring the Optic and Oxbridge varieties, brought from the mainland and ground on site. The fermentation vats (52 hours on average) are the traditional ones, made of American pine wood.

Arran's is a soft and gentle, non-peaty whisky, in the style of the most elegant whiskies of the Highlands: for this there are four tall stills, capable of distilling a very light and fruity spirit. Barrels are also carefully selected: more unusual woods are added to American and Spanish oak barrels, and some expressions matured in ex-wine barrels are now a stable part of Arran's portfolio.

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Last week we talked about Benromach, that just cha

Last week we talked about Benromach, that just changed completely its dress - this week we’ll focus on @arranwhisky , that revamped its core range last autumn, celebrating its first 25 years of distillation on the beautiful Island.

Arran had a long tradition of illicit production of whisky, but it was since 1825 that no legal still had been running - in 1995 Harold Currie, former Chivas MD, decided to gather investors to open a distillery in one of the most visited islands of Scotland, quite close to Glasgow. The idea turned out to be a winner, and they are now affirmed as one of the most respected producers in the Scotch Whisky industry.

Their light, fruity spirit is enhanced in this 18 yo bottling: matured in ex-sherry casks, it is a lovely dram, perfectly balanced between the depth of the woodiness and the typical fruity soul. Highly recommended.

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@benromach is one of our favorite distilleries, an

@benromach is one of our favorite distilleries, and we often praise it for its high quality. Today we’re tasting the oldest expression of the old core range, the 15 years old - but in the new one it should be confirmed, we don’t know if with the same recipe.

N: nice, rich and open. Beside a clear “dirty” and peaty note (light smoke and leather), the core of the whisky is citrusy: overripe blood orange zest. Everythin is wrapped by a bourbony creaminess, reminding to vanilla and maple syrup. A touch of sultanas and stewed fruits (apples and plums) complete the olfactive picture. With time, that initial dirty note evolves towards copper (those old grandma’s pots…). P: same thing, the tasting process is divided in two different stages. But do not think about a schizophrenic malt. Actually, the two-faced malt tastes like a complex, unique thing. The attack is rich but really sharp: the earthy and waxy notes are predominant, with a strong peaty minerality. It seems you’re sipping a laundry! There’s also a hint of black olives. Otherwise, an intense sweetness explodes after this: a compact sensation of stewed plums, honey, fermented tropical fruits (official tasting notes mention kiwifruit…). Orange peel.

F: acrid burnt umber and smoke. Salty licorice, essential oil of blood orange. And with this insane last comment we bow to ourselves.

This whisky’s got a great personality, confirming our excellent impression from the 10 yo. If we were to compare it with something more popular, we’d say a Campbeltown whisky, middleway between an extreme Kilkerran or a gentle Longrow… It’s certainly an unusual whisky, reminding us some whiskies from the past. And we love it so much. 90/100 and a standing ovation to a distillery which is earning a place of honour in our heart.

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When Gordon & MacPhail bought Benromach Distillery

Take a look at this bottle, because it’s one of

This was a ‘different’ week, so we changed our

This was a ‘different’ week, so we changed our main focus on Single Malt Scotch Whisky, and we won’t publish our usual Sunday review.

But we want to present this alteady legendary bottling by @foursquare_rum_distillery and @velierspa - it was the very first bottling of a serie, followed by Tryptich, Destino, Plenipotenziario and Patrimonio. Legendary because it involved two of the most influential people in the Rum business: Richard Seale, owner and manager of Foursquare, and Luca Gargano, mastermind of Velier. They proposed a revolutionary regulation for Rum, which is able to give focus to the prime matter, the terroir, the technical methods of production - this would help serious producers to stand out in a world full of caramel-driven industrial rums... It’s surely a long process, but it needs to be done: and having strict regulations, as Scotch Whisky can teach, can only help the improvement of the whole category.

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