I imagine I’ve tried all of The Whisky Change’s Christmas bottlings since 2018. First known as A Positive Christmas Malt they’re now A Good Previous-Common Christmas Malt.
Whereas choosing the 2024 version they finally settled on a small parcel of sherry butts and hogsheads stuffed at an undisclosed Speyside distillery in 2008. Similar to final 12 months, it’s 15 years of age.
A Good Previous-Common Christmas Whisky 15 yo 2008 (54,8%, The Whisky Change 2024, sherry casks)
Nostril: supple sherry, with a few of that PX roundness we regularly discover on the GlenAllachie for example. Figs and plum pudding, plenty of purple berries and sultanas. Then chocolate and orange peels. Crimson sweet apples and Morello cherries. Forest ground within the background, in addition to some cinnamon sweet. Test, examine, examine… Christmas alright.
Mouth: good power. These purple berries comes out once more, alongside good toffee and latte notes. It’s on the juicier facet, with a pleasant vibrance to it and a faint trace of Cherry Heering. A little bit tobacco and milk chocolate praline too. Then there’s a contemporary contact of toasted wooden, in addition to some ginger, nevertheless it actually stays spherical and energetic.
End: medium size, leaving a spicy impression, with chocolate, rum and raisins and baked apple.
Most likely the most effective Christmas Malt from TWE to date, in my ebook, regardless that it’s not precisely an old style whisky. Merely a richly sherried (trendy) whisky that ticks lots of bins. Completely out there from The Whisky Change and it’s truly cheaper than the 2023 version.
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