It has taken us too lengthy to actually dig into the Loch Lomond portfolio, however after our first style of their entry-level, non age-stated Unique single malt in 2023, we’re lastly again with some ideas on the subsequent rung within the Loch Lomond ladder. The distillery’s portfolio truly provides a trio of 12-year-old expressions: the unpeated Inchmurrin, the closely peated Inchmoan, and this bottle, 12 Years Outdated, dubbed “Completely Balanced” on the label. As that subtitle moderately bluntly insists, this expression is one thing of a candy spot between the opposite two and, in response to Loch Lomond, the perfect illustration of the Highland distillery’s signature type. Let’s test it out.
Loch Lomond 12 Years Outdated Overview
The aroma is impressively full and wealthy for a single malt of considerably modest age and abv, delivering large, heat notes of recent baked bread, uncooked honey, and porridge with a wholesome spoonful of brown sugar. Because it opens, cooked peaches and apple chips add a fruity layer to the malt. A fragile lacing of fireside smoke, a contact damp and gently candy, elevates issues additional.
The palate is equally spectacular and complicated, starting with large, candy notes of Demerara syrup, vanilla buttercream, and barley sugar that shortly turn into bolder fruit notes – ripe peaches and salted melon – earlier than giving approach to a midpalate loaded with sticky toffee and buzzing with freshly grated spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove foremost amongst them. Issues are syrupy and candy, virtually veering too saccharine, however then, as marketed, they discover distinctive stability on a creamy and buttery end of bread pudding, crème brulee, peach pound cake, and a contact of pipe tobacco.
Loch Lomond is one among solely 4 distilleries in Scotland with its personal cooperage, and it ages this single malt in three forms of American oak: first-fill bourbon, refill, and re-charred casks. Such an exhaustive method to wooden administration has delivered a whisky true to its tagline that’s simply among the finest values in Scotch right now.
92 proof.
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Loch Lomond 12 Years Outdated
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