anCnoc 18 Year

Tasted in a double blind, picked it as the winner of the flight. Vibrant nose with fruit and a hints of salt and brine. Balanced and with a touch of spice, absolutely delightful.

Bit smokey to me but not peaty. Was average maybe a little oily.

Absolutely beautiful.

Nose: Green Apple, Vanilla, Apricot, Fresh Sweet Bread, Grass, Marmalade, Caramel. Palate: Full bodied, Raisin, tannins, heather honey, oak spices, casis. This is going to be a whisky I come back to, ancnoc seems to consistently be a very gentle whisky when you first open it, then evolves beautifully with air. When I first tried the 12 year old expression of ancoc it was very unimpressive and lacked flavor if im being honest. Coming back to it a few weeks after the initial taste I was amazed at how dramatically different the whisky was. So much more flavor and richness was present in the 12, brought my personal rating up from a 3.0 to a 3.75. I will re review this one later but for now it gets a 3.5.