
Color: Light amber, dark yellow foliage color with nice thick and slow moving legs.
Nose: Mexican flan, vanilla and dried apricots. Jonquils, sweet hazelnut paste and underripe white peaches. Orange blossom honey and spearmint leaves. Coconut milk chocolate and nutmeg. There is a lot going on here...
Palate: Toasted oak, cinnamon, cloves and golden raisins. Peaches, custard and allspice. It's creamy, viscous and oily... I suspect some sherry cask influence here actually... Milk chocolate, red pepper flakes and cognac. Great balance of sweet and spicy notes with a beautiful texture.
Finish: Long with paprika, cloves and hint of salt. Even after it leaves the top of your tongue you can still feel it on either sides of your mouth fading out slowly for a long time.
Overall: Great whisky... Especially if you compare the prices in the market today with what I have paid for this bottle there is no match I can think of. It has an old school dusty, luscious and weighty palate without trying to be edgy on the nose or on the palate. It's perfectly balanced, shows it age gracefully and like the old timers would say: "It tastes like a good whisky should taste..." Funny that more and more I am being attracted to whiskies with less extremities when I get older. I actually am very afraid that the days I will be complaining out loud: "They don't make them like they used to anymore..!" are not so far away...
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Finish: Long with paprika, cloves and hint of salt. Even after it leaves the top of your tongue you can still feel it on either sides of your mouth fading out slowly for a long time.
Overall: Great whisky... Especially if you compare the prices in the market today with what I have paid for this bottle there is no match I can think of. It has an old school dusty, luscious and weighty palate without trying to be edgy on the nose or on the palate. It's perfectly balanced, shows it age gracefully and like the old timers would say: "It tastes like a good whisky should taste..." Funny that more and more I am being attracted to whiskies with less extremities when I get older. I actually am very afraid that the days I will be complaining out loud: "They don't make them like they used to anymore..!" are not so far away...
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