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Glen Scotia, Heavily Peated, Single Cask Bottling, O.B., 45%.
Cask no. 525, n.c.f. / n.c.
Bottle 168 of 330.
Color: Applejuice.
Nose: Peaty soil after a rainstorm. Wet rocks in a stream through the highland-wilderness. Black peppers.
Taste: Peppery and hot! Suddenly some nice sweet notes arise... with smoke and again some peat, but less heavy now. Slightly spicy also, aniseed with some nice sweet liquorice.
Aftertaste: Peaty with a very strong and peppery middle, grips and rips but escapes quite quickly... leaving a small film of pepperish peat in your mouth behind. It could have been so much more... but well, I'm not complaining now.
Score: 88.
Remarks: Very good price - quality level.
Bought it for less then 35 euros in The Netherlands.
Glenfarclas 10 yrs, O.B., 40%
Color: Light Gold.
Nose: Slightly spicy, dusty with heather on a sunny day. Some smoke and white pepper. In the back some slightly notes of metal.
Taste: Smoky with hints of sherry, quite spicy and full. The first approach of this Glenfarclas is quite powerfull but it leaves you behind with an elegant smile of pleasure.
Aftertaste: Rather long for such a young edition of the Glenfarclas stable. Quite warm and smoky, well balanced! Fresh spices, somewhat dry and smoky... just as I like it.
Score: 85. (same score as one year earlier)
Remarks: Already bought 3 bottles and all are empty. Enough marketing-talk for me... to be honest!
Glen Storn, 12 yrs, 40%, Highland Single Malt.
Unkwown history or bottler.
Color: Gold.
Nose: Just printed magazines. The ink is overwhelming. Dusty copper stills, the ones who have not been running for quite some years... Not very promising.
Taste: Starts like water and than all kinds of flavours, most of them remain questionmarks in my book, fighting for a good seat at the front row but nobody gets there, So is the taste, it's going nowhere. Rusty water is the only taste I can really describe now.
Aftertaste: Medium aftertaste though! Lots of mixed up flavours that remain unknown to my skills of tasting. Some metals, copper and rust - that's all really.
Score: 55.
Remarks: Bought this bottle in Sauerland (Germany) for only 15 euros. It was worth the try! After all, it could have been so much more!
Glen Ord, 12 yrs, O.B., 43%
Color: Dark gold.
Nose: Honey and heather, wooden matches, manure, some slight sherry tones in the background, black soil.
Taste: Quite creamy with honey, thick cream that develops on sweet juicy spices. interesting whisky, no doubt. Some toffee to finish it off.
Aftertaste: Medium long with sweet smoke, some sherry notes and oak, spicy and sweet.
Score: 82.
Remarks: No remarks at all. A good reasonable priced whisky for every day.
Nikka White, Pure Malt, 43%
Color: Gold, slightly orange.
Nose: Wet bark, sawdust, something lightly peated, smoky is a better word for it, some dark orangie sherry notes in the back.
Taste: Liquorice, smoky, quite sweet, burning peat in the back, slowly building up some peppery notes... quite a bitter finale. Where is the promised peat?
Aftertaste: A bitterness best described as "a good try... but this isn't a single malt!" A pure malt in every way. The smoke has gone for a walk and leaves you behind with sweet, soft woody tones of unknown bitterness... How about the Black version?
Score: 70.
Remarks: The nose is much more fun than tasting it. Isn't that the case with most vatted malts?
Glen Scotia, Heavily Peated, Single Cask Bottling, O.B., 45%.
