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Glenfarclas 40
The third of four amazing 18-year Anniversary tasters! 40 years and counting…one more bottle to go!
Benriach 30
Benriach 30 certainly went over well as another 18-Year Anniversary taster, with some Club members voting it their favourite of the night! It was a pretty hard choice to select just one…hard to believe the evening had 2 other even older beautiful drams on offer!
Whisky Sponge Glentauchers 18 Year Old
The youngest of 4 fantastic bottles sampled for our much-anticipated 18-Year Anniversary. Had to have at least one whisky distilled 18 years ago for this amazing milestone! Cheers ETKW!
Loch Lomond 21
The Club enjoyed a duo of 21 year-old beauties in November. Both sourced from Alberta.
Glengoyne 21
The Club enjoyed a duo of 21 year-old beauties in November. Both sourced from Alberta.
Linkwood 37
The Club was honoured to go back to its original roots with a Linkwood distillery direct release representing bottle #300, the very same distillery from which we sampled that all-important bottle #1. A true full circle journey, Linkwood 37 was not only nostalgic, but downright delicious. Cheers to a fantastic run ETKW, 300 bottles in under 18 (amazing) years! Sourced from a private collection.
Fettercairn 18
Bottle #299 did not disappoint, although a little pricey at $477 , sourced from Alberta.
Strathmill 1996 Aged 23 Years
August marked the annual Expensive Taste KW cook off competition. Before we fired up the grills, the club had a chance to dive into another Signatory Vintages bottling.
We are exploring a new distillery to the already expansive club tasting history, is the Strathmill 1996 23 Year Old single malt whisky. This one was secured via a club members trip to Alberta a couple years back.
Here are the details of this bottling:
Distilled on 07/31/1996
Bottled on 03/06/2020, remarkably right around the start of the covid shutdowns.
Bottle # 391 of 458 produced from a marriage of cask #’s 2099 and 2103 (must be Strathmill’s numbering system)
This cask strength whisky came in at 57.4% abv.
Notes: There isn’t much out there on this specific bottling. But I’ll add a few details I took during the tasting.
Nose: warm sweetness, grassy undertones with a little bit of the alcohol from the cask strength
Pallate: stonefruit, warm grassy understones, but not too strong that it overpowers, a little bit of dry sweetness
Finish: was quite warm, got a little bit of the dryness come through again, perhaps some lingering of the sherry hogshead finishing barrels
This one was really interesting, not overly complex, the finish didn’t linger too long, was quite clean. Once again will say quite warm on that finish. A bunch of the group tried it with a drop of water in our drams. Would recommend you try it both ways so that you can compare for yourself.
Overall I think I would like this whisky more when the temp drops to around 0 on a late fall afternoon, maybe not on a warm Saturday afternoon in August.
Really solid tasting overall!
Speymalt 2004 – from Macallan Distillery
Our taster bottle for July was aged and bottled by the cask-gobbling beast that is Gordon & MacPhail, a 20 year-old Macallan distilled in 2004, marketed under the modified name of “Speymalt” due to the independent bottling.
This one promised to be fantastic, a big sherry bomb at 59.1%, and did not disappoint. Chocolate was the word of the day during this sampling. Good Macallan is hard to come by at an affordable price these days, so we’ll take it! Sourced from Alberta, with some still available at the low low price of $500 +tax. Darn Lovely!