I've managed to cajole a friend who will be visiting from Europe to bring one of these with him. Needless to say, a usually forbidden dram in the US.
Has anyone some firsthand experience with this expression? If so, care to share your thought and notes?
absolutely splendid dram. particularly fruity - bananas!
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Interesting. Do you mean sweet and starchy or something entirely different. I've a very old bottle of Caperdonich at cask strength that is very rich, creamy (thick?), with a lot of fruit. Are we talking the same genre?
it tastes like bananas. i kid you not.
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Confirmed, it does taste of bananas. To me, though, it resembled a certain type of banana-flavour filled chocolate that's available in the Czech Republic (just across the border from where I live). Other notes/flavours I detected included: oranges, spicy toffee, baked, cinnamon sprinkled apples.
My general opinion of the dram was - what's the point? Other distilleries are perfectly capable of producing far more complex drams at less respectable ages, so why (yet again) experiment with fancy finishings instead of being more careful when selecting "normal" casks for the vatting? Come to think of it, even Glenfiddich can do much better without resorting to the wood-finishing tricks (18yo Excellence, or 18yo Ancient Reserve). Seems like they had a few dodgy casks that they left to mature for too long, and then decided to put them into something exotic so that they still can sell it.
As in a couple of other instances, the undiluted nose seemed the best part of the experience.
Cheers, Rajmund
I have to agree with you Rajmund. it's still a delicious dram though, ... but at a price...
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