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| Hello, that is one among our (virtually) each day tastings. Santé! |
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April 26, 2025
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WF’s Little Duos, at this time Aberlour
All the time a pleasure to style Aberlour. The outdated bottles you come throughout in Limburg are all the time distinctive – ah, the ’64 – however right here we’ll be sampling newer choices.
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Roseanna Smith, Eggshells on White
with Orange Leaf, 2018 |
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Aberlour 18 yo 2002 (54.8%, OB, for The Whisky Lodge, sherry butt, cask #3266, 612 bottles, 2025?) 
I consider this child solely got here out this 12 months, for causes I couldn’t clarify. Color: deep gold. Nostril: that is completely textbook Aberlour, and whereas we’re at it, quite evocative of some older-style bottlings too. A gorgeous sherry, elegant but taut, nearer to amontillado, faintly smoky – or virtually – and above all dominated by pecan pie, all the time a lethal delight. Beautiful notes of salted toffee, or let’s say salted Breton caramel, the sort you actually shouldn’t eat a couple of of at a time. With water: earthen flooring, dunnage warehouses, historical casks, heat wash, copper pots… it does take you on a tour of the distillery, in a method. Mouth (neat): punchy, unmistakably Aberlourian once more, salty, tarry, then veering fully in direction of toffee and darkish nougat. Hints of cherry liqueur and blackcurrant cordial. With water: ah good, no half-measures right here, a dry, devilishly oxidative sherry, saline, with mounting notes of outdated walnuts and pipe tobacco. Growth. End: lengthy, unwavering, merely handing your tongue again to you in gradual movement. Sixty caudalies on the very least. Feedback: now that’s chatty, as they used to say in these outdated 60s French movies.
SGP:462 – 90 factors. |
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Unbiased Aberlour bottlings are typically extra centered on orchard fruits — let’s see if that holds true right here…
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Aberlour 22 yo 2003/2025 (52.7%, Maltbarn, A dram is born, sherry cask, 193 bottles)
These conceptual labels are fairly one thing, Maltbarn will quickly be capable to exhibit their bottles at Artwork Basel or the Armory Present in New York (assuming that truthful hasn’t been banned by you-know-who by then). Color: gold. Nostril: this one’s totally different, extra polished, showcasing almond or pistachio cream at first, then modelling clay and a form of chilled soup made out of woodland mushrooms and double cream. One thing alongside these traces. A stunning earthy profile, with humus, damp woodland, mosses… how might anybody resist such issues, I ask you? With water: ah, splendid sherry! Walnuts, mustard, seawater, shellfish, mint, soy sauce – a correct coastal pantry. Mouth (neat): blimey, we’re again in official territory – tar, toffee, salt, walnuts, orange marmalade, espresso, oloroso… With water: fairly a little bit of black pepper muscling its method in, together with beneficiant notes of bitter orange. It settles down a contact right here – we had it at 91 earlier than. End: lengthy, dry, leaning in direction of bitter chocolate, nonetheless carrying that pinch of salt. Feedback: we’re compelled to decrease the rating, you see, however in doing so we land on what quantities to a really elegant stalemate.
SGP:462 – 90 factors. |
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Nicely then, these two drams turned out to be a lot nearer to one another than anticipated!
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