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Tasted: June 2012
A lovely, crisp and herbaceous nose with hints of fennel, light menthol and mint. It has a serious grip and pungency. Gently spiced with some herbal, vanilla oak, adding some light bourbon-like overtones. Very fresh and inviting with a late ... [more details]
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American Oak
Tasted: May 2012
The nose opens with some sweet, gristy barley. Wonderfully aromatic and leafy with hints of grass, hay, parsley(?) and a good dollop of dry-peat. The oak vanillins ably support and it develops a sort of Caol Ila-like freshness, ... [more details]
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Tasted: Mar 2011
A delicate and fragrant nose reminiscent of forest floors, bracken and ferns floats above a beautifully clean base of honeyed barley, gentle peat and citrus fruit. The oak sits pleasantly in the background and doesn’t impinge upon the overall... [more details]
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American Oak
Bottle No: 023814
Tasted: May 2012
A lovely, burnished gold colour. The nose is rather mature and oily with some luscious, sweet, mature honey, barley along with a touch of peat. Quite foresty in character with hints of pine and bracken. With t... [more details]
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Bottle Code: 14B06B6
Tasted: Dec 2012
An intensely fresh nose yet the grain has a lovely softness of character along with a herbal, coffee demeanour. Beautifully sweet and almost gristy! The oak is quite light, elegant and slightly buttery. With time the gra... [more details]
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Tasted: Sept 2008
This must be the bargain of the century! This is a truly awesome nose. Very woody and so heavily spiced it’s untrue. The aromas are so dark and treacly with lashing of mature honey and liquorice. Being a vatting I would guess that there is a... [more details]
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Tasted: June 2006
Clean, deeper, more intense aromas of darkly honied fruit, marzipan, smoky liquorice infused orange fruit and distant coastal bonfires? fantastic, very complex, balanced, polished and smooth.
Quite oily on the palate with liquid honey fr... [more details]
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Tasted: Dec 2012
Quite a herbal and ferny nose with hints of honey an lightly sherried dried fruits. With time the oak asserts itself with hints of fudge and marzipan also some orange notes appear, liberally sprinkled with chocolate powder.
The palate is s... [more details]
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Tasted: June 2006
Clean, rich, fruity and very complex. Gentle peat mingles with pure apricot and mandarins in fruit juice, moist honey, gentle oak, sweet vanilla and earthy malt. Lovely balanced nose with layers of honied fruit and a granity freshness.
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Tasted: April 2012
A lovely, elegant nose of lightly leafy sherry with honeyed violets and musky white flowers, followed by chunky peat, malt and some mature sawdusty American oak. Wonderfully soft and supple aromas. The oak builds and hangs in there but the ... [more details]
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Tasted: Sept 2011
A big, full on nose of dried fruit, walnuts, orange oil, crushed fruit, malt and a touch of sweet peat. Seriously complex and monumental with hints of aged honey. In saying that it does have some lighter moments but it truly is a monstrous n... [more details]
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Tasted: April 2012
Gentle, restrained aromas of, sweet, mature, herbal (thyme, lavender), Oloroso sherry. Now the big American oak vanillins kick in and we could quite easily be in Kentucky! Slightly earthy with hints of violets, spice and a touch of salinity... [more details]
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Bottling Code: 06J04A
Tasted: Nov 2010
A touch high toned to begin with but this is followed by waves of lovely dried fruit, orange conserve and hints of gooseberry(?) and greengage(?). It has a gorgeous freshness to the sherry with plenty of coffee-spice no... [more details]
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Btl Code: 16J22C
Re-Tasted: Sept 2012
A beautifully dense nose of liquorice coated dried fruit. Ultra clean and quite abounding with sweet sherry character. Very complex though with hints of sweet thick cut orange marmalade and malt. Given time you could cut... [more details]
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Bottling Code: 2OF12A
Tasted: Aug 2007
A rich, deep nose of dried fruit, sherry spice, dunnage floors, marzipan, very mature honey, beeswax and hints of earthy peat and smoke. Incredible complexity with the dunnage floor aromas increasing over time.
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Tasted: Aug 2011
The Hibiki is a blend comprising of malts from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries along with a variety of grain whiskies. It was aged in what I would imagine was new American white oak casks (given the large amount of oak character, and fi... [more details]
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Tasted: Mar 2012
An edgy and mature nose, with plenty of dried fruit. Quite venerable with the cinnamon sprinkled fruit (plum, apple, raisin) taking on a stewed demeanour. Stunningly deep with hints of old sherry and grain but balanced by some oily malt.
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Re-Tasted: May 2012
An oily, marzipan coated sherry trifle nose with a good dollop of coconut custard! Beautiful balance between the sherry and the ferny, foresty, slightly minty frsh distillery character.
The palate opens wityh some dense, herbal barley w... [more details]
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Tasted: Mar 2006
Rich aromas of sherry citrus fruit. Quite perfumed with honey, passion fruit, orange blossom and a delicate, soft spiciness. Excellent complexity. Soft on the palate, opening with pretty spicy, creamy apricot and honeyed fruit. The middle is ... [more details]
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Batch 18HO2D
Tasted: Nov 2009
A beautiful nose of sugar coated honeydew melon backed by a lovely coastal intensity. It has a touch of Caol Ila freshness along with hints of fish, maple syrup sweet barley, herbal-peat and a demerara maltiness. The honey has a... [more details]
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Bottling Code 14J02B
Tasted: Mar 2011
Clean, coastal sherried fruit aromas mingle with sweet dark malt and plenty of earthy peat. This has a lovely depth with layers of grape, salt, mature citrus fruit and peat. Later some hints of molasses and toasted wood ... [more details]
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A lovely mature nose of rich honey, beeswax, delicate peat and mature sherry. Wow this is amazingly complex, the aromas continue with malt, dried raisins/ sultanas, lashings of gingery spice and liquid orange fruit.
The palate opens with malty, mature hone... [more details]
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Batch 16G14C
Quite a huge, high toned alcoholic nose of Oloroso sherry and ‘quelle horreur’ a stinky struck match heads sulphur note!!! What is this doing here?? And on the 2009 World Whisky of the Year??? Scandalous! Yes, there is a serious depth of cinnamon... [more details]
£209.27 (inc VAT)
