Scotland, Central Highlands: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes
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Deanston

Description de la distillerie Notes de dégustation

The distillery

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The whisky

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List of the bottles

Official Virgin Oak 73/100 1
Official 12 years 73/100 4
Official 17 years 79/100 3
Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask 12 years 77/100 2
Deanston: official bottlings

Deanston

12 years
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 40,0 %
Bottler
 Official
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 73/100
This whisky does not come from a very popular distilleries area. The malt is not very popular neither, but it is rather pleasant. It caracterizes itself by a relatively strong wood taste, but stay remarkably balanced. A reasonable price for a good but not essential whisky. No regrets for having purchased it...
70/100
The general impression during the second tasting was better than the first time. Even if this bottle cannot be considered as one of the best Scotch whiskies, this :malt is quite nice, and can compete with many others. A very pleasant taste, however without this complexity, mixing spices, malt and smoke which characterizes the best bottles.
74/100
The floral nose reveals some discrete spice hints. In the palate, malt dominates with a slight touch of liquorice and some woody aftertaste. The finish is rather pleasant, on malt with some bitterness.
74/100
Color: Gold
Pretty but very discreet notes of tangerine are mixed with malt and cereal smells. Although enjoyable, this mouth seems to betray a young and somewhat immature whisky, by those hints of yeast that are found in the background.
The first palate is very fruity, but rather flat.
The length of the finish is medium . Relatively fresh, with discrete notes of unripe nuts. Not really complex nor particularly rich. Apart from being quite pleasant, the mouth is not of major interest. Sweetness and fresh notes of fruit. And it's a nearly all.
73/100
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Deanston

17 years
Age
 17 years
Alcohol percentage
 40,0 %
Bottler
 Official
Cask
 Sherry
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 79/100
Deanston 17
Nose
Fabulously bitter sweet nose, breakfast time stuff with marmalade and honey. Thrilling complexity.
Palate
Again, a peculiarly thin mouth feel. Begins oaky dry and then a surge of malt helps sweeten things a little. And a delightful spice buzz forms a permanent, lively strata.
Finish
A milky oakiness with dry coconut nuttiness.
Comment
An improvement from the 17-year-old of old, which doesn't even begin to show its big age.
(Jim Murray - Whisky Magazine)
An interesting nose, with hints of malt mixed with citrus fruis. Acid sugar.... However the sweetness dominates. In the palate, a first dominating impression is wood. Malt comes and sweetnesses it, before the acid notes come back, just before the dry and acid finish. A rather complex whisky.
79/100
The nose is pleasant and detects malted notes, mixid with some acid and sugared hints, like an orange with honey on a muesli plate. In the palate, the same sweetness, with some woody hints. A relative complexity, but all the aromas from the nosing remain in the mouth and dominate successively: acidity, sweetness and malted hints. A rather long finish, remaining in the same patterns.
79/100
A nice fruity first nose. Lots of freshness, hints of cut grass.
The mouth confirms this first fresh impression and develops quickly on light cashew nuts and milk chocolate. Quite a nice mouth. Very smooth.
The pleasant finish prolongs perfectly the mouth with this smooth chocolate notes. The length is medium.
79/100
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Deanston: embouteillages indépendants

Deanston

Old Malt Cask 12 years
Collection
 Old malt cask
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 50,3 %
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
Cask
 refill hogshead
Cask number
single cask 4422
Dates
 Distil: 03-1996 Bottling: 06-2008
Bottle
 327 btls
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 77/100
Deanston Old Malt Cask 12
The nose is unpleasantly marked by hints of yeast developing on strange curds notes. A touch of smoke...
The mouth does not save it... An alcohol impression and still those yeast hints.
The finish is long and this impression of alcohol persists.
This bottle deserves probably another tasting... The quality of it is not in balance with the general level of this collection...
74/100
Colour: Straw
Hints of yeast covering a relatively malty nose. The nose is fresh and it's really a shame that fruity notes in a remote background seem to be so hard to prove.
The palate is more pleasant than the memory left by the nose, but nothing worth to scream with joy. Relatively linear, it nevertheless features some nice fruity notes, precisely those having great difficulty in revealing the nose.
The finish is relatively long, cool and pleasant enough. Slightly more complex than the mouth and generating more fun than the nose.
79/100
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Deanston hors collection

Deanston

Virgin Oak
Age
 No age statement
Alcohol percentage
 46,3 %
Bottler
 Official
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 73/100
Deanston Virgin Oak

Comment by
Johannes Sauer

Colour: Bright golden, shining, polished brass (no colour).
Nose: Grated ginger (surprisingly clear) combined with honey and a nice note of rotten apples. Later there is also freshly prepared porridge with cream and brown sugar, the way I like it for breakfast...
Taste: Sweet, full and round but young and fresh in the beginning, the trendy >43% prove their worth. Alas, no ginger here but very nice floral notes. With water still mighty and powerful but in my book I miss a hint of smoke or bitterness and complexity. Nice notes of nuts and grass anyway.
Finish: Nice, easy and friendly like the whole dram but not long and a little bit harmless.
Conclusion: A fresh and very enjoyable nose but in the whole picture there is little meaning. Very pleasant and enjoyable anyway.
Date: 12. May 2011
Price in Germany: 29 Euro

73/100
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