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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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April 29, 2025
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The Limburg Whisky Honest is at all times an opportunity to find outdated bottlings we have by no means come throughout earlier than – even in over twenty-five years. It is at all times fairly stunning, and I reckon an important phrase at Limburg is not ‘whisky’, it’s ‘sharing’. Briefly, it is mad, but it surely at all times offers us the chance to do just a few ‘Time-Warp classes’, the place we line up an outdated model and a more moderen expression from the identical distillery which might guess slightly revealing. So, immediately it’s going to be Longrow, with two comparatively younger variations. Let’s get to it…
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Longrow 17 yo 1990/2007 (56.1%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, #114.6, ‘A Dragon’s Dram’, 583 bottles) 
There have been, again within the early 2000s, some slightly difficult batches of Longrow, not due to the distillate itself, however due to some wine casks that had been, let’s say, on the very odd facet. Tokaji, anybody? Or one thing veering in the direction of the model of that infamous Springbank ‘Spiritus Sulphuris Volatilis’. Briefly, the SMWS had the great sense to supply slightly extra ‘clear’ alternate options, not not like these immaculate 1987s from Signatory/Samaroli. Color: gold. Nostril: extraordinary notes of brine, mutton suet, cigar smoke, cumin, mustard, flint, smoked salmon… With water: boot polish, beeswax and at all times that suet. Mouth (neat): brings Brora to thoughts, very saline, barely acetic, resolutely mineral (clay, basalt), then getting tenser and tighter, with a most simple impression of smoked lemon. Wonderful. With water: you’ve swallowed seawater whereas bathing within the ocean, then comforted your self with a wee mezcal laced with lemon and salt. Properly executed. End: lengthy, even more energizing, salty, smoky… The kippers aren’t far off. Feedback: we by no means really understood why Springbank produced so little Longrow. There, it’s mentioned.
SGP:466 – 92 factors. |
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Longrow ‘100° Proof Batch 1’ (57.1%, OB, refill bourbon and refill pinot noir, 2025 launch) 
That is in truth the follow-up to the well-known ‘Crimson’ collection which, typically talking, had left us slightly chilly, as the mix of peat and pink wine usually evoked one thing like espresso and mustard blended collectively – the kind of concoction we used to dish out to freshers once I was a boy scout. Nonetheless, on this case, though it’s pinot noir, the truth that it’s second fill does provide some reassurance. Let’s see… Color: pale gold (victory!) Nostril: no cherries, no blackcurrants, no raspberries, no woodland mushrooms, no hare pâté, and no Russian leather-based. Hurrah! That is extra of a clear, taut Longrow, very a lot within the vein of these stable NAS entry-level bottlings, that are at all times slightly good – one thing like a Campbeltown mojito. Lemon, seaweed, smoke, seaside sand and recent backyard mint, together with a faint yeasty observe (which probably betrays its youth). With water: amaretti and wood-fired white bread. Virgin wool and a contact of chalk within the background. Mouth (neat): some hints of cherry-stem natural tea however effectively faraway from the lees of chambertin or Bollinger. Extra pepper, lemon zest, a splash of tarragon, grapefruit (not even the pink sort!) With water: tinned sardines seem, together with lemon and even a splash of olive oil. End: pretty lengthy, and extremely maritime. One may as effectively be standing on a fishing quay. Feedback: an awesome success, with the pinot noir factor now little greater than an anecdote. We’re slightly happy.
SGP:466 – 88 factors. |
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