Tastes

Nose: Cherry lip sweets, malt, vanilla, spice - cloves Palate: Malt, summer fruit - berries, honey, apricot, buttery Finish: Medium finish. Very sweet. Malty, fruity, buttered toast. Oak on the aftertaste. Berries and sugar, buttered toast, kids sweets, Corn Flakes and sugar. The tasting notes are basically kids comfort foods! A very easy drinking and comforting dram!

Nose: Vanilla, baking spice, banoffee pie Palate: Malty, oak, tannic, coconut Finish: Medium long finish. Spiced, malty and vanilla This is a tasty, malty and spicy/hot dram. Creamy mouthfeel. Nice, not complex or layered, but a decent whiskey.

Nose: Sweet, barley, tropical fruit. Palate: Spicy, pepper, chilli, ginger, toasted oak, nuts, baked apple, apricot. Very malty Finish: Medium finish. Pepper, ginger, malt. Spicy and souring on the aftertaste. Sour, malty and spicy. Hints of tropical fruit and nuts. A lot of sour spices on the aftertaste. This doesn't taste it's ABV, but it is still a little too harsh. Generally OK.

Nose: Funky, dry putty, Campino sweets, strawberry laces, vanilla, Cremola foam, floral Finish: Sweet, berries, icing sugar, white pepper, baked fruit, saline, light dry peat smoke Palate: Long finish. Hot and spicy, dried fruit, slight funk/farmyard, ginger, gristy, light oak Not a bad blend from Springbank. All the Springbanks and Glen Scotias are represented. It tastes like an amalgam of Campbeltown but a bit watered down. If you like the Campbeltown profile, it's an interesting blend. On its own it's a decent blend, but, in my opinion, it's not worth the hype. Generally OK.

Nose: Summer fruit, honey, milk chocolate Palate: Sweet, vanilla, cream, oak, summer berries, honey, icing sugar Finish: Medium long finish. Sherry, dried fruit, summer berries, leathery and creamy. Sweet, fruity and vibrant. For a 21-year-old, this has a youthfulness that is unexpected and hugely welcomed! Berries and cream on the palate, leather and sherry on the finish. Lovely!

Nose: Chocolate, spicy, window putty, hairspray, chocolate chip cookies Palate: Chocolate, popcorn, golden syrup, light spice - ginger. Nutty and aromatic Finish: Medium long finish. Citrus, green apple, dried fruit, herbal. Cocoa, butter and vanilla on the aftertaste. This is a chocolate-y and aromatic rye dram. Smooth and velvety on the mouthfeel. The 100% rye adds some darker notes to the herbal spiciness. A decent dram!

Nose: Malt, sherry, roasted nuts, dried fruit, cream Palate: Sherried, spice (clove & ginger), chocolate praline Finish: Long finish. Fruit heavy, dried and fresh fruit - apple, apricot, pear, plum. Pastry and cream. Sour apple on the aftertaste. 1 of 8,520 bottles This is a lovely sherried dram! Fruity and malty, with apple pie and pastry. This has a lovely, mouth coating creamy and oily mouthfeel. Deep fried apple pie!

Nose: Gristy, barley, malt, honey, vanilla, orchard fruit Palate: Sweet, sherried, dried fruit, spices - nutmeg, toffee, wood/pine Finish: Medium/long finish. Spicy, dried fruit, oak. Menthol and mint on the aftertaste. Sherried and fruity. Thin but creamy mouthfeel. This is a nicely layered, sweet and fruity dram. Mild spice and wisps of pine and menthol.

Nose: Wood, cinnamon, BBQ meat, salt/saline, damp peat smoke Palate: Woody, spice - chilli and pepper, char/ash, damp peat, nuts, menthol/green salt, mineral Finish: Long finish. Black pepper, chilli, BBQ meat, building peat, dry ash This is a 'hot', ashy and peated dram. There's a clean minerality that you don't always get in a peated dram. Not complicated at all, not unpleasant, but a little too 'hot' to be fully enjoyable.

(Good Spirits Co. Glasgow – Virtual Whisky Tasting, 08 October 2022). Nose: Hot/spicy/alcoholic, fruit and nut, burned wood, apple, hairspray, peat Palate: 'Hot', wet peat, toasted oak, nutty, toffee, vanilla Finish: Long finish. Nutty, pipe smoke, damp peat, toffee, burned wood, sweet and dry on the aftertaste. 160hr fermentation time 1 of 10,000 bottles (worldwide) Ex-rye, bourbon and virgin oak casks Interesting, hot and a bit numbing. Loads of peat and wood smoke. The layers are fantastically diverse. Not necessarily an easy drinker, more of a chin-scratching "interesting" dram than one you'd choose to keep going back to. I would never have guessed that this was a GlenAllachie if it was a blind tasting - very little of their typical character. Came second out of the six drams, with 27% of the final vote for favourite of the night. 80% of those present said they enjoyed the whisky.