About a year or so ago, I began working with one of those people that…let’s just say she took the joy out of everything I loved even beyond the workplace, including whisky. Then I was super behind in my reviews and I finally got around to catching up and just after I got back into a groove with my reviews I had to take some antibiotics and couldn’t post for a bit. To be honest, with how far behind I was (I know it doesn’t make sense to have a schedule but that’s just how I am), catching up made reviewing whisky feel like a chore rather than something I enjoyed. But I did it and got back until that nagging cough derailed me. I’m hoping to get out these next six reviews (4 and a side by side for #375) before starting this year’s Advent calendar (something I’m always looking forward to) now that I’m feeling it again, and six is not so large a number that I’m hopeful it won’t become a chore again.
Onto the whisky, this is just something I was rather curious in trying after going out on a limb with a handful of peated Glenturrets from the SMWS without having opened them yet. Figured it couldn’t hurt to get familiar with their standard expression from their revamped line. After trying one of those a couple weeks ago, I’m wondering whether Glenturret might be a bit of a ‘mainland Ledaig’ so let’s not waste any more time.
Minutia: All I know is that it’s made with peated malt and matured for 10 years. Enjoyed neat in a glencairn.
Color: Russet, Muscat; 1.3.
Nose: Musty, nutty, Sherry. Some smoke. Green wood.
Taste: Sweet smoke, some spice.
Finish: Real smoke. Nice sweet and spicy tang. Some nuttiness. Medium.
This is interesting. I like it more this time around versus the first few drams I’d poured. Particularly where the smoke comes in at the start of the finish and really makes itself known. That nuttiness was more prevalent than I’d like, as while it’s not objectionable, the fact that it’s not something I care for I think hides some on the nose for me. So, at it’s not quite on the same level as Ledaig, but it is nice, and it’s interesting, and the bottle choice was nice.
Score: 80
Musical Evocation: Children of Bodom – “Hate Crew Deathroll”
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