Aberlour 16 Year Double Cask Matured

Nose is light, honey, oak, apple. Some vanilla and honeysuckle with short finish. Pretty thin overall not worth price tag in my opinion

light fruit overpowered by herbal flavor

My experience tasting the Aberlour 16 was akin to putting my ear to a wall and attempting to listen to music being played in the next room at a very modest volume.   Do critics at Rolling Stone or Pitchfork review albums experienced through one ear stuck to a wall?  No, they do not.  I'll use that as an excuse to be somewhat brief here.  There are some very mild but not unpleasant notes of malt and fruit.  But overall, I found the dram to be so muted that the primary characteristics were a thinness, a lack of depth, and nothing that remotely captured my interest.   This was my first Aberlour, but I'm not yet deterred.  I have a sample of Casg Annamh on order that I suspect will prove to be more of a heavy hitter.  If not, the A'Bunadh will be next.