Hazelburn First Edition 8 Year Old "The Stills" Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

An historical bottling representing the very first Hazelburn from Springbank, launched in 2005 (or 2006, depending on your sources). 46% Alc./Vol. Collectable.

Other reviews... Colour: light gold. Nose: rather spirity, starting with some bold notes of pear spirit, with something Irish. Yet, it’s soon to get quite Scottish, with some organics, farmy aromas and quite some burnt caramel. Keeps developing a bit, mostly on coffee and on various kinds of fruit liqueurs (banana, pineapple, triple-sec and Chinese Mei kwei lu.) Rather different, not as close as expected to some other triple distilled malts, such as Auchentoshan. Less ‘clean’ and ‘pure’ and with more body. Mouth: very ‘different’ again. Quite some vivacity and heat, creamy and very sweet. Gets then bitterer and bitterer (burnt bread) and finally extremely salty. Rather simple, in fact. The finish is long and rather tary and sulphury, with quite some bitterness. A rather difficult whisky, I must say, not offering much pleasure in my opinion, but that’s very interesting to taste, hence my 84 points - whiskyfun.com