North Star Speyside Star 12 Year

Tasting Notes

Producer's Tasting Notes

Nose: Milk chocolate buttons and red Jelly Tots. A good helping of malt keeps it from becoming to sweet.

Palate: Cinnamon, toffee apple and yet more chocolate.

Finish: Chewy barley, black pepper, sherry and a hint of treacle tart.

84pts Whisky Fun: "Is the ‘Millennial Range’ designed to appear primarily to Millennials? Being born in 1985 I’m from a ‘pocket generation’ between Gen X and the Millennials called the ‘Xennials’. At the time of writing we are still awaiting recognition in contemporary whisky branding. We live in hope... This one hails from a distillery which practiced partial triple distillation between 1974 and 2007. Colour: gold. Nose: oh very nice! Golden syrup, honeys, brioche, heather, warm banana bread, lightly toasted walnuts, sunflower seeds. A halfway house between a fuller, sweeter sherry style and a more earthy, distillate-driven profile. Some rather leafy and leathery notes emerge over time, hints of sultana and prune. With water: nice hints of plum eau de vie, gingerbread, a touch of melon and a few other stewed fruits for good measure. Mouth: fruity muesli, black tea, fruit scone mix, greenhouse flowers, baked apples, a hint of spiced custard and some sweeter old dessert wines. Also some hummus made with butterbeans (I know, it’s all getting a little bit ‘Marks & Spencer’). With water: more sweet syrups, flapjack, runny honey, a touch of camphor and some wood polish. Finish: longish, slightly earthy and with this very slight hint of rubber, like bicycle inner tube. Not ‘dirty’, rather a sort of natural spirit sulphur influence perhaps. Comments: I like and I suspect there’ll be plenty to enjoy in here for fans of simple, easygoing, lightly sherried malts. Only lost one point in the finish I’d say. "