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Colour: Bright brass (colour added).
Nose: Strange and funny. Hefty peat combined with a remarkable cheap rubber impression. Strange sweet aromes like rotten apples, mildew on a pineapple, dried tomatoes, mixed pickles (dill and honey), also wet newpapers show up besides. The peat appears not in a smoky, but in some strange (I cannot think of another word...) musty and beefy way. The fruity note here reminds strongly of the cheap Loch Lomond bottles (no age) available in most German Supermarkets, it’s the same low wines smell.
Taste: Very dry aperetif, but this is more fun than the nose suggests: Black pepper, even some dried hot chillies, peppered soft cheese spread and rancid butter. The low wine nose seems to be forgotten, but there is heavy sweet maple syrup, leather and oriental shisha tobacco and cold cigarette ash altogether rather far out of harmony.
Finish: Not on the unpleasant side, prickly, well peppered and sugary but fading quickly.
Conc.: This low priced whisky means a lot of fun to the open minded malt lover, but is far from being a fine dram. The people at Loch Lomond should take a drive to Campbeltown to their daughter distillery at Glen Scotia, over there they know very well how to bind the most different notes and aromes to a very beautiful bouquet of tastes.
Date: 12. January 2011
Price in Germany: ca 24 EuroColour: Bright brass (colour added).

2011