Scotch Malt Whisky Society 9.88

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A HEART STARTER

From a refill butt, this 25 year old Speysider is 55.3%

Flavour profile:  Spicy & dry

Outturn:  542 bottles

Panel's tasting note:  "Little aroma beyond ‘dry’ to start with: very dried fruits, dried out leather, ash, soot, but soon opens to present fruitcake mix, ‘over-steeped jasmine tea’, toasted Brazil nuts, warehouses, mushrooms. Nice texture; sweet overall but very tannic, even ascorbic; some burnt jam in the aftertaste and bitter coffee dregs and dark chocolate in the finish. Surprisingly, water introduces a meaty note - fresh tuna - with buttered croissant, high strength cocoa powder, then treacle toffee, fig pigs and salted caramel. Not so tannic now, with dry liquorice, coffee, dark chocolate and burnt toast. Very unlike the familiar light-bodied proprietary bottling."

Drinking tip:  "In place of espresso"

750 ml