Scotch
Mossburn 12 Yr Previous Domaine Dupont Calvados Cask End
Mossburn 12 Yr Previous Domaine Dupont Calvados Cask End is a blended malt scotch whisky completed in Calvados casks.
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Beth, a whisky fanatic, grew to become Whisky Journal’s editor (2022-2024) and now works in content material advertising and marketing for scotch whisky manufacturers.
Mossburn Famille Dupont is a 12 12 months previous blended malt scotch whisky, comprising single malts from Speyside that have been completed in Calvados casks from Domaine Dupont. It’s bottled at cask energy, 57.2% abv.
Recent apple notes that flip to cloudy apple juice (apple cider). Baked pear with gentle, perfumed vanilla. Clear honey and oatcakes, A sprinkling of powdered cinnamon and ginger. Lemon curd slices. Toasted almonds and creamy Greek yoghurt. With time, the baked pear shifts to pear drops. The aroma sweetens with the addition of water and the apple character is dialled up.
Medium bodied. Buttery apple streusel – I can really feel pastry and a crumbly oat topping together with the smooth, spiced fruit. Creamy caramel and milk chocolate. A touch of tinned peach. Delicate, syrupy stem ginger and ripe Convention pears, notably the marginally earthy skins. With time, toasted salted almonds. It loses a few of its nuance with water, however a pleasant word of spiced apple cake comes ahead.
Lengthy and gently drying. There’s lingering nuttiness alongside uncooked apple (the flesh and peel) and shortcrust pastry dough.
As one would hope from a scotch whisky that has seen the within of a Calvados cask, that is bursting with autumnal orchard flavours. It’s additionally properly behaved for its proof, so if sipping, I’d advocate protecting it neat. Nevertheless, if you wish to combine it… I found a Calvados Previous Long-established recipe over Christmas by which this is able to make a wonderful accomplice, or alternative, for the brandy.
Beth Whymark
Following six years in regional journalism, Beth entered the world of spirits in 2020 after becoming a member of Paragraph Publishing, the corporate behind Whisky Journal and the World Whiskies Awards. She was editor of Whisky Journal from September 2022 to July 2024 and served as one of many publication’s tasters. Her present position is in content material advertising and marketing, working day-to-day with various Scotch whisky manufacturers, and she or he continues to be studying and writing about and tasting whiskeys from world wide in her spare time.
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