Aberlour A’Bunadh is one in every of these whiskies that I wish to revisit every so often. In a means it’s a very attribute dram if you wish to learn the way sherry maturation has modified over time. Extra vanilla, extra wooden as such, dropping a few particular aromas like tobacco, and fewer intense general. I attempted A’Bunadh Batch 71 about two years in the past.
If you happen to didn’t know already, this whisky is artificially colored – fairly a disgrace, even whenever you insist on making clear it comes from sherry casks.
Aberlour A’Bunadh – Batch #77 (60,8%, OB 2023, Oloroso sherry butts)
Nostril: vanilla and milk chocolate at first, adopted by sultanas, caramelized walnuts and cinnamon. Grows fruitier, with marmalade, berries and purple apples. Then brown sugar, in addition to some dusty barley within the background. Some cola sweet, polished wooden and butterscotch too. A reasonably trendy, rounded sherry profile, however undoubtedly inviting.
Mouth: begins candy and reasonably fruity once more, with loads of raisins, purple grapes and candied pear. Then oak units in, with ginger and black pepper, maybe a little bit too aggressive. A grassy aspect as properly. Liquorice and closely infused black tea in the long run.
End: lengthy and reasonably tough, with spicy oak, uncooked barley and cocoa.
As a nosing whisky, this nonetheless gives plenty of pleasure. On the palate it grew to become a little bit tough in latest batches, I’d say. The wooden will get to talk louder. With so many batches nonetheless obtainable, I’d go for one of many 5x or 6x batches. I purchased a pattern from Whiskysite.nl
