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December 5, 2024
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WF’s little duos, two Strathmills for Glory
As you already know, we have made it our mission to pattern as typically as potential (and “potential” is the important thing phrase right here) whiskies from these distilleries you not often come throughout—ones initially designed to produce the big-name blends that have been ruling the whisky world simply 20 years in the past. Strathmill, situated in Keith, is a main instance. The principle false impression? “If the homeowners by no means actually launched it as a single malt, it should not be any good.” What a rookie mistake, my buddy… Right here, let’s begin issues off with an official Strathmill to set the tone.
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Strathmill 15 yo ‘The Supervisor’s Dram’ (53.5%, OB, refill cask, 2003) 
What an totally charming label! A fast reminder that for this collection, managers genuinely chosen the casks, whereas the pleasant title “refill cask” is a nod to a time when, in 2003, nobody had but conjured the intense thought of charging extra for youthful whisky by hyping the cask kind over the age. However let’s not harp on… Color: straw. Nostril: an unimaginable sweetness and fragrant glow of malted barley, light ale, white nougat, apple tart, and wildflower honey. It’s magic – easy, excellent magic. With water: the pure great thing about nature captured in a dram. Mouth (neat): a flawless reflection of the nostril – barley, apples, candied sugar, beer, completely ripe pears, and honey. Brilliant, wonderful, and a alternative that feels unmistakably “Distillery Supervisor’s personal”. With water: astonishingly good, by a triple-necked electrical guitar! Attractive malty biscuits, honey, mushy polenta, a contact of vanilla, and a touch of orgeat syrup. End: medium in size, with a faint contact of putty however solely in step with every part earlier than. Feedback: an genuine, agricultural-style whisky that feels refreshingly untainted by advertising and marketing interference (and I say that as a proud member of that peculiar tribe).
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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Nicely, it’s true, isn’t it? In the event you learn any previous and superb ebook about whisky, they’ll all the time let you know that the three important elements are barley, yeast, and water. Wooden was by no means talked about.
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Strathmill 10 yo 2014/2024 (58.1%, Girl of the Glen, Amarone end, cask #802139, 282 bottles) 
The opposite day I mused that Amarone finishings are quite intelligent, because the wine itself, barring just a few exceptions, may be quite difficult to get pleasure from straight. For these unfamiliar, Amarone is a strong Italian purple, crafted from partially dried grapes in Veneto’s Valpolicella area – typically discovered gracing pizzeria wine lists. It additionally occurs to be a part of the uncommon 5% of Italian wines I don’t notably take care of, which by comfortable implication means I am keen on the remaining 95%. Italian wines for the win! Color: apricot. Nostril: a high quality instance of a ending that doesn’t hammer residence the wine’s identification – a blessed aid. There are touches of roasted peppers and stewed tomatoes, interwoven with recent thyme and pine needles, evolving into orange cake spiced with clove and a contact of moss. Actually quite charming, and much from a hasty ‘quick-dip’ end. With water: a contact of earth and a whisper of cardamom emerge. Mouth (neat): surprisingly good. The wine does introduce a major sweetness, nearly like a liqueur, with notes of peppered cherries, strawberries, roasted peppers, and tomatoes mingling with juniper. It feels as if we’ve strayed from whisky territory, however the craftsmanship stays spectacular – an uncharted flying whisky, or UFW. With water: a bridge-like high quality comes by way of, suggesting an extended maturation to clean issues out, although the sweetness remains to be fairly daring. End: quite lengthy, light, syrupy, however by no means cloying. Feedback: methods to put it? A method I don’t take care of, executed with outstanding precision. Now it feels a bit like the tip of the Amarone-finishing highway – any additional and also you’d be left with fortified wine spiked with whisky. Take the rating with an enormous pinch of salt.
SGP: 751 – 82 factors. |
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