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Colour: You coud say rosé wine, but since it is no wine, you also could say copper. For sure it is redder than any whisky I seen before.
Nose: Very very fruity. A very pleasant fruit salad made of strawberries, green apples, pineapples, sultanas and cantaloupe with a dash of lemon, properly mingeled and coated with brown sugar and a little caramel syrup. Also added for taste there might be some drops of white cuban rum and Maraschino liqueur.
Taste: Less fruity than the nose suggests. There are still the fruits but added are now oats, baking yeast (pizza dough) and traces of sea salt and even hints of spicy pepper and cocoa powder. This is no more fruitsalad but a very nice and pleasant, but perhaps a little too unbalanced whisky.
Finish: Full and warming and not very long. The very last impression appearing now is a nice dry wooden note I did not notice until now.
Conc.: A very fine and pleasant whisky, but for a Bladnoch my expectations might have been too high. In a blind tasting I was convinced to have a Buichladdich in my glass, and that’s what the whisky tastes like. For me it tastes like a pretty young Laddie (like Rocks), but not like an older Bladnoch.
Tasting date: 10/8/2009
2009