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January 3, 2025
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A number of wee Linkwood
Linkwood is a flexible malt that loves sherry however can also be able to embracing essentially the most uncommon woods and wines. Relaxation assured, nevertheless, at the moment we gained’t be coping with any mizunara. Would not mizunara be the vocoder of spirits?
Oh, and would you imagine it—there’s barley malt extract in Mars bars!
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Linkwood-Glenlivet 10 yo 2013/2024 (46%, Cadenhead, Authentic Assortment, oloroso sherry casks) 
Color: amber. Nostril: beautiful caramel, praline, toffee and raisin rolls. Chocolate and Mars bars which may solely want a fast deep-fry. Effectively, you get the thought. Beautiful nostril, beautiful sherry, easy-going and uncomplicated. Mouth: basic Jaffa muffins, caramel-filled chocolate (sure, Mars bar once more), Nescafé and Ovaltine. The 46% works very effectively. End: good size, caramel and low, then roasted peanuts. Maple syrup and marmalade lingering within the aftertaste. Feedback: pretty easy however superb, very effectively made, considerably old style. Everyone knows Linkwood has beloved sherry since time immemorial.
SGP:551 – 85 factors. |
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Linkwood 15 yo 2008/2023 (45%, Samaroli, refill bourbon hogshead, cask #306029, 384 bottles)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: hey, good! That is not the Samaroli of previous (the model was offered fairly just a few years in the past) however it is a very beautiful nostril, with tarte Tatin, pistachio halva and panettone. To be trustworthy, it feels way more like refill sherry than refill bourbon, however let’s not break up hairs—it’s a stunning nostril certainly. Contemporary raisin rolls. Mouth: sure, superb, within the model of Cadenhead, just a bit brisker and extra targeted on orchard fruits. In fact, that is determined by the timber in your orchard. Caramel and honey-coated apples, plus just a few inexperienced spices, particularly pepper. End: pretty lengthy, with toffee, ginger and lemon zest. Some woody spices within the aftertaste, ginseng, turmeric… Feedback: actually superb.
SGP:551 – 85 factors. |
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Linkwood 12 yo 2012/2024 (48%, Signatory Classic for LMDW Artist Collective 7.0, first fill bourbon barrel, 1776 bottles)
A vatting of six casks. One doesn’t anticipate this to go incorrect. Color: white wine. Nostril: wow, right here come the recent fruits in full freedom, from mango to apple, passing by way of recent croissants and banana cream. Jellybeans and infants. Exhausting to withstand all this—as they are saying, any resistance is futile. Mouth: simply give in, that is recent fruit on recent herbs with a contact of clay and chalk. A champagne-like character, actually. End: pretty lengthy, with yellow citrus fruits taking cost. Citron and pomelos. Feedback: it’s recent, it’s wonderful, it goes down effortlessly.
SGP:651 – 86 factors. |
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Linkwood 15 yo 2022/2024 (54.3%, Single Malt Desires, for Bergen Whisky Social Membership, 1st fill oloroso octave end, 65 bottles) 
There’s no actual distinction between Bergen in Norway and Havana in Cuba, since each have their Social Golf equipment, you see. That mentioned, the final time I used to be on the one in Havana, they weren’t serving Linkwood—except somebody had invented a Linkwood Daiquiri. And why not! Color: deep gold. Nostril: a typical well-toasted octave, with caramel and turrón, then barely mentholated tobacco. A number of wafts of geranium, bay leaves, after which leather-based. With water: it turns into more and more meaty. Mole sauce, Maggi, biltong, teriyaki, brown sauce… Mouth (neat): it really works. Loads of thyme and low, lovage, glutamate, chewing tobacco, liquorice wooden, mustard… Fairly a concoction—we wouldn’t name it ‘typical’. With water: we’re venturing into moderately unfamiliar territories so far as Scotch goes. Heavy pinewood, tobacco, juniper, …? … ? … ? End: lengthy, fatty, bitter and chocolatey, resinous… Lingering notes of bitter oranges and walnut wine. Feedback: after the palate I actually don’t know methods to rating this sort of extremely uncommon however very amusing creation. Let’s simply give it some thought—these octaves!
SGP:371 – (pending) factors. |
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