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| 14 YEAR OLD SPEYSIDE GLENLIVET SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY Nonchillfiltered |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
TOMINTOUL |
| Bright very light yellow colour. Attractive, intense slightly spicy, ripe lemon-melon nose with some floral-vanilla notes. Wow, what a delicious single malt! Fairly dry, medium to medium-full bodied, well structured, harmonious, slightly spicy, intense, bright, honeyed, ripe, plummy-caramel flavours with a lingering, vanilla-tinged finish. |
CSPC |
376228 |
| Type |
Spirit - Scotch Whisky |
| Agent |
Lac Int |
| Country |
US |
| Region |
 |
| Rating |
***/***+(95 points)
Smooth, Well Structured, Bright, Elegant |
| LCBO Note |
Status |
Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
A Best Buy |
| TASTING NOTE: Nose: curiously, there is a seaweed saltiness attached to this one: not exactly what you expect to find from a malt made and (I think) matured in the centre of the Scottish Highlands. But it adds a compellingly attractive - if eyebrow raising - element to this delicately framed and gently structured, lightly honeyed malt fest. The oak splendidly keeps within the spirit of the style; Taste: just how many variations on a honeyed theme can you get? Here I count at least five, each wave coming in after the other with just the odd nip and tuck or expansion of its intensity; the very faintest smoke is detectable and just when the natural caramels appear to be getting too excited, the malt reestablishes itself; Finish: medium length, bur sheer quality all the way: Bird's custard mixing dreamily with drier, playfully spiced, oaky vanillas. The lightest of oils spreads the grassy, sharper malts to ensure a wonderful lightness of touch; Balance: not a single weakness: no bitterness, no off notes, no caramels other than those naturally from the oak, no sulphur. Just magnificent whisky bottled exactly the way it is meant to be. An absolute corker from this little-known but outstanding distillery and one of the most delicately complex distillery bottlings of the year. Score - 95 (Jim Murray, Whisky Bible, 2013) |
Price |
$ 116.95 |
| Bottle Size |
700 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - June 21, 2014 |
| Cases bought |
59 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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