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Glenlivet Nadurra Peated Whisky Cask Finish

What it is

This Glenlivet Nadurra is finished in heavily peated whisky casks and bottled at cask strength. The peated casks impact on the mature whisky with gentle aromatic smoky notes and there still remains the more tropical side of Glenlivet.

Tasting Notes

Nose:  Sweet and sparky.  Fish pie with smoked haddock.  BBQ’ed fruit.  Wet malt almost soggy paper with an ashy note.  Then there is light brittle toffee.  Jasmine.

Taste:  Creamy.  Chilli spice and white pepper.  A punch of peat, hot embers, and then toffee comes through.  Then fruit cocktail after a BBQ.

Finish:  Paper ash lingers.

Conclusion

It is a talking point whisky and may even be a cross over whisky for people who are fearful of peat.  It’s OK easy drinking peaty whisky.

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Glenlivet Nadurra Peated Cask

Benromach Organic 2010

What it is

Distilled 2010 bottled 2015.  Every step of its making is certified Organic too. Still the only one of its kind. The new spirit goes to rest in virgin American oak casks.  First distillery to produce a fully certified organic whisky by the soil association.  The whisky is unpeated.  Bottled usually between 5-7 years old.  The casks have come from an organic certified forest in Missouri.  Produce around 100 casks a year (3 weeks production in January usually!).  Currently experimenting with organic spirit in refill organic wood to try and see if we can prolong the ageing process a bit…

The barley comes from a farm at Mulben, and the farmer is the distillery manager’s bother in law!

Tasting Notes

Nose:  Sweet toffee malt. Sweet wet wood and kumquats Caramac bars with a hint of mint (mint pearl sweets) and cinnamon.

Taste:  Medium sweet.  Orange toffee.  Chilli chocolate spice.  Baked apples with nutmeg and baked oranges.  Wood spices.  That virgin oak prickle.  Develops with time and becomes more floral – orange blossom.

Conclusion

This is a great whisky and has great character.  In the last 10 years this is the whisky that has inflated least in price of all other whiskies that we can find.  It is not the whisky that 10 years ago that people used to think was matured in whisky casks but it is still well worth drinking.

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Benromach Organic 2010