Glen Scotia Double Cask Single Malt

Zoet en scherp

Fresh and malty Not so complex but quite tasty

Lite smoke, heavy spice and oily.

A little Smokey for me

This one is actually closer to bottle kill levels than I though, guess it goes on the kill table after the review. Anyway a lot of people have been discussing this one lately and I though I'd go back and review. Nose - So I always get a bit of pepper on this but it's awfully sweet behind that. I get some christmas spice, baking spices, and cookies and vanilla and it's a kid's christmas party really. There's certainly some oak here but it really only gives you oak notes when you're thinking whisky and oak. As this opens the PX really starts to come out, it's that super sticky sweet sherry note, not the drier Oloroso notes. I get even a crayon element here as well now that it's opened up. Taste - The flavor is a lot less of that christmas note. I still get some pepper but the real showcase is ginger bread cookies, there's a hint of that sherry giving this perhaps more of those christmas notes, but really vanilla is the overwhelming element on the flavor profile. Yeah as I get acclimated to the flavors it's vanilla and then for sure PX sherry casks with as I keep saying all kinds of spices all over. This is not what I think of with Glen Scotia or Campbeltown at all. It's unique and very interesting. I must say between this and the victoriana Glen Scotia does some of the most interesting things with oak influence. I'm not sure how they're getting these notes. Maybe it's european oak on the PX casks? Are they storing these barrels somewhere....like in the ocean? Now I'm getting some kind of funk at the end that's starting to give me campbeltown notes, where was that the last 10 minutes? This is a darn good whisky and if I recall it's pretty cheap. Anyway with an NAS I tend to not let these sit in the glass too long before jumping in. I was wrong with this one. Give this a good 10-15 minutes to open up. The sherry comes through however with some time i start get some younger oak notes. I went from a 2.0 to a 3.0 and back to a 2.0. This is a 4.0 in terms of uniqueness and on that note maybe I should score it higher. It however is younger whisky and I can't see myself doing more than 2 pours at a time. That said this is one I can keep going back to. So I'm back to a 2.5.