Scapa is the unsung hero of Orkney always over shadowed by her more well known neighbour Highland Park, but just like with women perhaps its the quiet timid ones that you need to watch out for rather than those that are always striving to be in the limelight. (Christ I wrote this drivel before I even had a dram!)
Anyway the 14yo bottling has now been replaced with a 16yo bottled at 40% lets see how it fairs:
Nose: Quite warming and initially stewed apples, a slight musty lemon note, dry compost and a faint coastal note - actually smells a bit stronger than 40%
Taste: Brown bread with salted butter, touch of hessian sack, drying, nutty and quite cereal like. Seems a bit younger than 16yo and bizarrely thin on the mouth yet clawing at the same time.
Finish: Very drying, wet pencils and clawing wood. fairly decent length with saltiness developing - just wish some fruitiness or something would develop.
Comment: Sometimes the shy timid ones are just a little bit dull and boring. I maybe expected a bit much not a bad dram but left me wanting so much more!
Score: 81/100
Price check
It wasn't until I did the price check on this that I realised just how expensive this is, I think they are taking the piss a little with this when you could get the excellent 14yo Scapa for £39.99 would you pay an extra £12.00 for an extra 2 years I would say no - but maybe I am just being tight!
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Glenmorangie Nectar D'or 46%
I thought that this might be an interesting one as I have already reviewed this one so having had this one as my fifth whisky of the evening I thought it might be interesting to see how my notes compared from my original notes til this new one. I was quite pleased by the results as I gave it the same score and several key notes were similar. So here goes take two.
Nose: Lots of lemon, someone said bacon and actually I get it! Fruit loaf and highland toffee, the fruit loaf has lots of butter on it.
Taste: Difficult to pick anything out beyond the sweetness, syrupy and a good bit of spice coming through.
Finish: Dry soft and then spice comes through.
Comment: I like this but the taste is not as good as the nose suggests and the dryness lets it down.
Score 81/100
I was well impressed with myself that these were similar but for a decent review check whisky fun or Dr Whisky.
Price check:
Royal Mile Whiskies -£39.50
The Whisky Exchange - £38.99
Loch Fyne Whiskies - £42.50
Single Malts Direct - £39.99
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Glenmorangie Nectar d'Or 46%
Got a chance to try the new Sauternes finish from Glenmorangie - no age statement on it but they say it has been matured for at least 10 years in Ex-bourbon casks before being transfered into Sauternes casks.
All reports are that this has been selling very well since its launch so lets try it and see what all the fuss is about!
Nose: Quite a funny sweet and creamy nose, vanilla toffees and a touch of linolieum? Poach pears and sweet grassy notes. Actually gets creamier with time - love this nose. Bizarely I get ice cream powder stuff that spacemen eat! The joys of friends who have been to Orlando!
Taste: A little dry and maybe even a touch sour but not unpleasant, actually quite malty and not as creamy as the nose would have suggested. There is a bit of fruitiness but not the full on Glenmorangie pear drops that i expected.
Finish: An orangy sweetness battles with the drying maltiness. The sweetness perhaps wins on points!
Comment: A nice wee dram - but won't be running out to buy a bottle me thinks? However the nose was sublime. If only the dry maltiness wasn't there this would be so much better.
Score: 81/100 Nectar d'Or but not J'adore!
Looking over at Serge's review he seems to like it a lot more than me, and I think it may well be because he also has an appreciation for what Sauternes wine actual is - which may work against me!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Dunglass 5yo Miniature
Came across this curious miniature from Dunglass a heavily peated version of Littlemill. Curiously the label on the miniature has no ABV or volumetric information! I have found a similar bottle on the Internet that was bottled in a green bottle for the Italian market and that was bottled at 43% ABV. I don't know when this was distilled but going by what I have found on the wonders of the Internet! they stopped producing this style of whisky in 1972.
Nose: Soft and green, grassy and typical young lowlander style after initial hit of alcohol. Faint hint of chlorine but no smokiness.
Taste: Dry, malty with a faint whiff of peat coming through but more wood taste than peaty. Also lots of lemon sherbet notes:
Finish: Short and crisp leaving a citrusy / banana feeling.
Comments: Not a bad we dram but would say they must have been pretty shy with the peat!
Score: 81/100 Difficult one to score though!
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