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Aberlour
18 Year Old Double Cask Single Malt Speyside Scotch Whisky
Category: Speyside Single Malt Scotch
Date Tasted:
6/6/2022
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
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93 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$124
Aberlour
18 Year Old Double Cask Single Malt Speyside Scotch Whisky
Category: Speyside Single Malt Scotch
Date Tasted:
6/6/2022
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
Amber color. Aromas and flavors of apricot and manuka honey, apple fritter, nutmeg, and dark roasted malt, raisins, and banana bread with vanilla cream cheese frosting with a round, bone-dry medium-to-full body and a long finish revealing notes of rich and malty with waves of honey roasted nuts and orchard fruit, flowers and gingersnaps, leather, sweetened black tea, and and tobacco leaf. A gracefully aged Speyside Single Malt demonstrating both youthful fruit and a touch of rancio.
Tasting Info
Style:
Rich & Full
Aroma:
apricot and manuka honey, apple fritter, nutmeg, and dark roasted malt, raisins, and banana bread with vanilla cream cheese frosting
Flavor:
Same as aromas with notes of rich and malty with waves of honey roasted nuts and orchard fruit, flowers and gingersnaps, leather, sweetened black tea, and and tobacco leaf
Smoothness:
Normal
Enjoy:
in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktails:
Rusty Nail, Rob Roy, Blood & Sand
Bottom Line:
A gracefully aged Speyside Single Malt demonstrating both youthful fruit and a touch of rancio.
The Producer or Importer
Pernod Ricard USA
250 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10177
USA
1 914-848-4800
www.pernod-ricard-usa.com
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Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
About
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Speyside refers whisky made by the 50+ distilleries near the river Spey in the Scottish highlands. These distilleries are noted for their use of refilled, ex-Sherry casks in the maturation of their whiskies. The Sherry casks imparts telltale fruit and nut tones to the final whisky.
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