I consider I’ve tried all of The Whisky Trade’s Christmas bottlings since 2018. First known as A Advantageous Christmas Malt they’re now A Good Previous-Normal Christmas Malt.
Whereas choosing the 2024 version they ultimately settled on a small parcel of sherry butts and hogsheads stuffed at an undisclosed Speyside distillery in 2008. Similar to final 12 months, it’s 15 years of age.
A Good Previous-Normal Christmas Whisky 15 yo 2008 (54,8%, The Whisky Trade 2024, sherry casks)
Nostril: supple sherry, with a few of that PX roundness we regularly discover on the GlenAllachie for example. Figs and plum pudding, numerous pink berries and sultanas. Then chocolate and orange peels. Pink sweet apples and Morello cherries. Forest flooring within the background, in addition to some cinnamon sweet. Verify, test, test… Christmas alright.
Mouth: good energy. These pink berries comes out once more, alongside good toffee and latte notes. It’s on the juicier facet, with a pleasant vibrance to it and a faint trace of Cherry Heering. Slightly tobacco and milk chocolate praline too. Then there’s a contemporary contact of toasted wooden, in addition to some ginger, but it surely actually stays spherical and vigorous.
End: medium size, leaving a spicy impression, with chocolate, rum and raisins and baked apple.
Most likely the perfect Christmas Malt from TWE up to now, in my e-book. Merely a really wealthy sherried whisky that ticks numerous packing containers. Solely out there from The Whisky Trade and it’s really cheaper than the 2023 version.
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