Aberlour a'bunadh
Distillery: AberlourStyle: Single Malt
Release: Batch 15
Age: Unspecified
Alcohol: 59.6% abv.
Region: Scotland: Speyside
Bottled For: Distillery
Aberlour a'bunadh is a natural single cask strength malt whisky. Taken directly from specially selected sherry casks it is bottled as simply as possible without the use of modern filtering methods or the addition of water.
Color: Like damp sand
Nose: Reminds me of a wet night.
Body: Heavy
Palate: Sweet like fruit, very similar to mandarin oranges.
Finish: Very warm and tingly. Satisfying!
A surprisingly spectacular whiskey. Being 120 proof, it is incredibly smooth. The flavor is rich and doesn't leave me wanting one bit. I would recommend any day as one to at least try once!
Color: Deep copper
Nose: Orange peel and butter. Cherry and roses.
Body: Full and weighty. Creamy.
Palate: Absolute sherry monster, lots of fruit. Woody as well, oak just piles on. Sweet orange.
Finish: Long and warming
Absolutely extraordinary cask strength, I love everything about it.
Color: not quite new penny
Nose: fruity, sweet, cherry
Body: sparky
Palate: spiced wine,iodine,sweet and salty, damn fine
Finish: very long and warm
Happy xmas, very warm, jolly good. Don't recommend watering it, even though cask strength.
Nose: Too much alcohol to enjoy its nose without water. So I add a bit. Wow, this IS a sherry monster. Sherry and something almost of the sea. Or even meaty? Not at all in a bad way. After a few seconds it almost smells like a rye.
Body: Some guts.
Palate: Big sherry, reminds me of an old school Macallan. Some vanilla and pepper which carry through to the finish and intensify. Bring it down enough and you can almost taste Rye, which I know there is not. Something in the sherry wood perhaps?
Finish: Lingering sweetness.
Batch 15. I think perhaps I am liking the proverbial "sherry monsters" less than I did when I started with malt, a few years ago. Wish there was more complexity, more balance here. I want some malt in my malt, if you know what I mean. That being said, it is still nice. Note: I am going to give it two extra points for how wonderful the glass smells after it was finished. A bit more complextiy would have helped, perhaps, but this is the price a malt pays for intense sherry, at times.