Distillerie | Ben Nevis |
Embouteilleur | OB |
Serie | X |
Mise en bouteille pour | X |
Date de distillation | 06.1974 |
Date de mise en bouteille | 12.2000 |
Pays | Écosse |
Région | Highlands |
Age | 26 |
Cask Type | X |
Numéro de fût | 2895 |
Alcohol percentage | 56.4 |
Volume | |
État | Pas de Caisse en bois originale |
Étiquette | Légèrement Sale |
Stock | 0 |
Many official single casks were rather heavily sherried, so this is a nice opportunity to try one au naturel. Colour: gold. Nose: typical, with a lot of concrete dust, soot, sourdough, beans, coriander, wet sand, leaves, bitter ale, mead, rum, banana skin and apple peelings. This is complex and very austere, beautifully so. With water: superbly dirty-ish, leathery, with similar chalky tones and burnt fruits, coated with some kind of honeyed custard. Great mead! Mouth (neat): both wide and vertical, all on bitter oranges at first, then tobacco, leather and leaves, with that usual salty touch. With water: earth and even more chalk, plaster and concrete, plus small bitter kumquats (always loved in Dutchieland) and something else that’s rather typical, that is to say a kind of beerish sourness. Ale. Finish: rather long, always on some kind of chalky beer. Comments: absolutely characterful and probably a little segmenting, as they say in marketing. We’re in the right segment.