Longrow 10 Years Old 46% NV

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Serge Valentin (83)

Colour: straw.

Nose: quite expressive but a little weird like often with the recent Longrows, with lots of notes of violets and rotting oranges, the whole becoming then quite mashy. Also notes of Cologne, lavender… Truly bizarre for my tastes but I know many guys like it. Little peat in this one, in any case.

Mouth: better now, more ‘classical’. Bold, peatier, nicely sweet and fruity (lots of crystallised grapefruit, kumquat and orange). Better balanced than on the nose, for sure. Goes on with hints of gin fizz, Fanta (or Orangina) and a long, peppery and orangey

finish. Quite a good one, in fact, markedly less ‘erratic’ and ‘uncontrolled’ than most finishings the distillery’s been issuing in recent times in my opinion.