| Cragganmore | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | |||
| O.B. | 12 years | 17 2/3 | |
| Cask Strength 10 years | 18 | ||
| 17 years | 18 | ||
| Distillers edition 1987 | 17 | ||
| Bladnoch forum bottlings | 12 years (Bladnoch Bottling) | 17 | |
| Signatory | Un-chillfiltered collection 1989 | 16 2/5 | |
| 1989-2004 | 17 |
Cragganmore 12 years |
|
Age |
12 years |
Alcohol percentage |
40% |
Bottler |
Official |
The colour is old gold, and the nose recognizes fruit, citrus
fruits (grapefruit), tobacco and iodine;
The palate is slightly smoked and confirms the nose.
The finish, malted, is from average length.
Apperance: Coppertoned full gold.
Nose: First impression is of fresh fruits. Refreshing
and sweet. Vanilla and fruit brandy. Buttery. Diluted dram is dryer with a slight wooden aroma. Complex.
Body:
Light to medium but very firm and smooth. Palate: Easy going. Semi sweet with a wide range of fruits. Long finish
with outstanding complexity. Dried fruits, floral notes, butter, oak and leather.
Comments: A very good Speyside
malt. I don't seem to rate it as high as the experts do, and I usually prefer The Glenlivet and The Macallan
12 Year bottlings to this one when it comes to Speysiders. Probably due to lacking experience. This is a very
nuanced single malt. I'll get another bottle of Cragganmore in a couple of years and see what I think then.
85/100
Cragganmore |
|
Age |
14 years |
Alcohol percentage |
40% |
Particularity |
Double Maturation |
Cask |
Port |
Bottler |
Official |
Cragganmore |
|
Age |
10 years |
Alcohol percentage |
60,1% |
Particularity |
First fill xeres cask |
Cask |
Xeres |
Bottler |
Official |
Cragganmore |
|
Age |
17 years |
Alcohol percentage |
55,5% |
Bottler |
Official |
Cragganmore |
|
Age |
14 years |
Alcohol percentage |
46% |
Particularity |
Un-chill filtered |
Bottler |
Signatory |
Cragganmore
as well as "Signatory's Un-chill filtered collection" use
to produce very great malts. This bottle is thus the exception
confirming both rules...
Beside the white wine colour (like most of the bottlings in this collection)
which could surprise less informed drinkers, the nose is also disappointing.
The typical Speyside fragrances are not present. My first impression was that
I was drinking some Lowlands whisky. The palate, not really frank, reveals a
mix of light malt and citrus fruits. The whole "washed-out". A not
really consisting finish, and that's it. A cruel deception. It is the first deception
for this distillery as well as for the collection. This bottle deserves certainly
a second chance...
The second tasting confirmed the hints of cut grass, reminding a Lowlands, but
a great complexity has been detected, and emphasised the very pleasant taste
of this nice whisky who was judged too severely the first time
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The third tasting just confirmed the second one. This bottle is somewhere between
a characterful Lowland and a slightly acid Speyside. A good bottle.
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At the fourth tasting, the quite discrete nose revealed some fresh cut grass
notes along with more perfumed red fruit notes (red currant). The palate, rather
fresh too, follows precisely the nose impressions, fruity and relatively complex.
Hints of red currants, with their typical acidity and raspberries (sweeter but
with a richer taste). A relatively short finish completes the scope with touches reminding
the nose and mouth impressions. An amazing bottle, which seems to get better
and better with time and aeration....
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A first rather fresh and medicinal nose. Hints of ether behind floral notes.
In the mouth, the first acidity develops on something difficult to describe, some acid bitterness. Some fruity notes in transparency.
The finish is rather long and the same dominating hints are present, both bitterness and acidity.
Cragganmore
|
|
Age |
12 years |
Alcohol percentage |
62% |
Particularity |
Natural Cask Strength |
Bottler |
Raymond Armstrong, Bladnoch |
Gragganmore
|
|
Taux d'alcool |
58.8% |
Embouteilleur |
Signatory |
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