Deanston 18 Year

Very enjoyable easy dry bit peppery at first but let it air out for 20 min and it mellows. Still exploring all the tasting notes. This is one that I keep reaching for. Deanston is becoming a real go to for me. The 12 and 18 will always be in my collection.

Fresh cut grass, milk chocolate note, hint of honey. Balanced floral/fresh fruit.

interesting dram, the flavours are slightly muted but open up over time. burnt toffee and caramel is the predominant characteristic accompanied by slight aniseed, marzipan, grass and green apple, spicy oak notes. A fair bit going on here and it definitely grew on me the more I got into it. I tried the Laphroaig An Cuan after and this dram made it taste pretty one dimensional so I bumped this up a notch and downgraded the Laphroaig.

the first offering (and only to date) from Deanson that i had the pleasure of tasting. Its price back then (58€ on MofM) made me go for it. Do i regret it? not at all, since it is a perfect pour for warmer evenings when you need a good dram. Would i buy it again? at that price, most definitely, especially since Deanston afficionados kept saying how better the new core range (the white labels, not that brown one depicted on Distiller, that happens to be the one i bought) has become. However, for 80 euros, i could buy an Aultmore 18 or a Craigellachie 17, two easy sippers that i tend to favour over this one.

Vanilla taste very present, with cinnamon and mayber honey? Smell of vanilla, and oak but not the honey surprisingly. Quite heavy on the tongue and oaky. Not very salty, good sweetness. Very good and accessible even for it's 46.3% ABV which are not feelable. Not smoky at all.