Brennerei | Ben Nevis |
Abfüller | OB |
Serie | X |
Abgefüllt für | X |
Destillationsdatum | 06.1974 |
Abfülldatum | 12.2000 |
Land | Schottland |
Region | Highlands |
Alter | 26 |
Cask Type | X |
Fassnummer | 2895 |
Alcohol percentage | 56.4 |
Inhalt | 0,70 |
Zustand | Kein OHK |
Label | Leicht Verschmutzt |
Vorrat | 0 |
Many official single casks were rather heavily sherried, so this is a nice opportunity to try one au naturel. Colour: gold. Nose: typical, with a lot of concrete dust, soot, sourdough, beans, coriander, wet sand, leaves, bitter ale, mead, rum, banana skin and apple peelings. This is complex and very austere, beautifully so. With water: superbly dirty-ish, leathery, with similar chalky tones and burnt fruits, coated with some kind of honeyed custard. Great mead! Mouth (neat): both wide and vertical, all on bitter oranges at first, then tobacco, leather and leaves, with that usual salty touch. With water: earth and even more chalk, plaster and concrete, plus small bitter kumquats (always loved in Dutchieland) and something else that’s rather typical, that is to say a kind of beerish sourness. Ale. Finish: rather long, always on some kind of chalky beer. Comments: absolutely characterful and probably a little segmenting, as they say in marketing. We’re in the right segment.