Bladnoch ( Official) - Sheep Label, 15 years - 15 y.o. - 55,0%2
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Age:
- 15 years
- Alcohol:
- 55,0%
- Bottle details:
- non chill filtered cask strength
- average
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- (86,90)
- price class:
2 notes disponibles en français
Johannes_Sauer
Colour: dark amber with a fascinating greenish (olive) shine.
Nose: Very firm, a hefty whiff of alcohol at the first glance, but later a healthy oak note appears, so powerful you wouldn't guess a lowlander. Also zesty lemon, with water there is more deepness, a very fine complexity joins in with notes of dried fruits (figs, dates) and cane sugar.
Taste: You should try the first sip without water: The mouth is full of the same complex sweetness mentioned above dried apples, mowed grass, dry hay too, but also very solid wood. Traces of smoke. One could guess it's a Springbank maybe. With water there are soft hints of soap, citrus, fruits and forest herbs (Waldmeister). The whole dram gets a little more accessable.
Finish: Long and smoothly abating, changing more to tropi! cal fruits (pineapple), later is the finish dominated by a plentiful of watermelon I never experienced that clearly.
Conc.: The best (can I say that?) or at least one of the most impressive lowlands whisky I tasted so far.
2008
Clearly a fresh nose, so typical of the Lowlands whiskies. Hints of cut grass, ripe fruits (pear, melon). Both a great sweetness and a clear alcohol presence.
In the palate, the same impression than during the nosing, with however some mentholated hints and a touch of woood in addition, which enhances the complexity of this nice malt.
The finish is lingering, and all the nose and mouth impressions come back, from ripe fruit to menthol, through a discrete woody bitterness.
2006
