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Dalwhinnie
30 year old
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Distillery:
Dalwhinnie
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Company:
Diageo
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Cask Maturation
Refill American Oak hogsheads barrels
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Strength
51.9% ABV
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Note
- Special Release 2020
- Natural color
- Non-Chill filtered
- 6978 Number of bottles
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Bottled:
2020
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Distilled
1989
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Price
450-500
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Country:
Scotland
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Region
Highland
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Adres
General Wade's Military Road Dalwhinnie Inverness-shire PH19 1AB United Kingdom
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Website:
malts.com
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Type:
Single Malt
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Age:
30 year old
Taste note
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Colour:
Light amber
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Nose:
Peaches and nectarines immediately jump out to me. Spun sugar with the overly sweet cotton candy mingles with bright lemon peel. Fresh garden mint with tree bark rounds out the backend.
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Palate:
All the oak just comes at you at the beginning. It is hot on the tongue at its natural cask strength, and the mouthfeel is light. There is a bit of soot or charcoal to the whisky. However, the palate offer little compared to the nose. It is earthy or swampy. Overall, you really have to focus to pick out the stone fruit.
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Finish:
Medium long and elegant finish with flavors of wood spices, dried fruits, nutmeg, honey, white chocolade.
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Conclusion:
A beautiful impression of the sweet and delicious brand called Dalwhinnie. You can taste the complexity of the flavors between the 15 year old and this 30 year expression. The price is a bit too high for what you are getting. But if you get the chance to taste this 30 year old Dalwhinnie, you will experience the real and deep complexity Dalwhinnie has to offer you.
Flavor profile
Spice
Smoke
Citrus
Sweet
Wood
Rich fruits
Other aromas
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- vanilla
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- wood
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- nuts
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- burned wood
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- spices
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- citrus fruits
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- honey
