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Dalwhinnie 30 Year Old (Special Release 2019) Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)
Highlands,
SCOTLAND
$849. 99
Bottle
$10199.88 Dozen
ABV: 54.7%
Tasting note: From refill hogsheads and butts filled in 1987-88. Brilliant gold. Initial whiffs of sweet malt arrive peppery and understated. A minute in the glass releases floral-soft aromas of orange spice cake, light beeswax, vanilla and sweet tea biscuits. It's leaner and spicier than expected before the mid palate introduces threads of honey weaving through yellow fruits and hints of orange. The mouthfeel gives you the impression of a much younger whisky. Mildly grassy to finish with a little cocoa, but surprisingly short. 54.7% Alc./Vol. 7,586 bottles.
Other reviews... The nose is floral, with honeysuckle, marshmallows, almonds, ginger, and green fruit in time. The palate is creamy and offers quite insistent spices, with sweet orange, fondant notes, more honey, and cocoa. Medium in length, spicy, with persistent orange and milk chocolate in the finish, plus just a wisp of smoke. 89 points
- whiskyadvocate.com, reviewed by: Gavin Smith (Winter 2019) Notes from Diageo: NOSE: A mild nose overall, with some light prickle. The top notes are vegetal and faintly smoky, as with a snuffed candle, almost suggesting a Halloween pumpkin lantern; the overall impression is savoury, with a light sweetness suggesting moorland heather pollen. The base notes are of spicy fresh-planed wood, which if a drop of water is added becomes light balsa wood. Much sweeter at first after this, with a tangy, fruity note of pickledginger. BODY:Medium tofull. PALATE: At natural strength, big, creamy-smooth and mouth-filling in texture, with a richly sweet, waxy initial taste and spicy, with a touch of salt and an appealing, gradually building peppery warmth that carries on into the finish. When slightly reduced, the taste remains the same when a good drop of water is added, becoming a sweet, smoothly balanced whole that is delicious to drink. FINISH: Long and spicily warming, leaving the tongue tingling and a pleasantly earthy.
- whiskyadvocate.com, reviewed by: Gavin Smith (Winter 2019) Notes from Diageo: NOSE: A mild nose overall, with some light prickle. The top notes are vegetal and faintly smoky, as with a snuffed candle, almost suggesting a Halloween pumpkin lantern; the overall impression is savoury, with a light sweetness suggesting moorland heather pollen. The base notes are of spicy fresh-planed wood, which if a drop of water is added becomes light balsa wood. Much sweeter at first after this, with a tangy, fruity note of pickledginger. BODY:Medium tofull. PALATE: At natural strength, big, creamy-smooth and mouth-filling in texture, with a richly sweet, waxy initial taste and spicy, with a touch of salt and an appealing, gradually building peppery warmth that carries on into the finish. When slightly reduced, the taste remains the same when a good drop of water is added, becoming a sweet, smoothly balanced whole that is delicious to drink. FINISH: Long and spicily warming, leaving the tongue tingling and a pleasantly earthy.