Glenlivet Nadurra First Fill Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

If you've enjoyed Nadurra in its previous incarnations, this promises to be one of the best yet. Matured entirely in first-fill American white oak casks.

Tasting note: [Batch FF0714] Pale gold colour shows ideal clarity and considerable legs. Typifies the house style with deep scents of poached pear and ripe green apple over beeswax and vanilla. The orchard fruit theme continues in the second pass adding milk chocolate, orange cake, light pepper and clove. A precocious sniff! Entry builds with flavours of honey, vanilla and tea biscuits; quite spicy and concentrated but thins out momentarily before a stewed pear sweetness almost breaks through the spicy oak, carrying the aftertaste in rebounds. One of the more engaging Glenlivits of recent years and a reminder that NAS whisky isn't necessarily retrograde. Non chill filtered. 63.1% Alc./Vol.

Other reviews... mmm...a sumptuously rich delivery, and though the oils are healthy there is never a threat to the complexity....Red liquorice and treacle pudding fills the mid-ground; walnut oil subtly adds a further oaky presence....a long interweaving between the oak and the barley, although it is the malt which fades faster.... now that is what I call a whisky.
95.5 points - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2016

NB: Alc % will vary from batch to batch.