Grand Macnish Six Cask Edition

Nose: A weak aroma of generic scotch whisky. Traces of cereal, honey and fruit but it is exceptionally light and weak. Palate: Diluted notes of cereal, honey and vanilla. It quickly gains a hot, peppery quality but there is a foundation white-sugar sweetness. Finish: Very Short. Virtually non-existent. 15 seconds after tasting this there is nothing at all left on the palate. This is one of the weakest, most insipid blended scotches I’ve tasted. The only thing in its favour is that it does not have any outstanding faults. There is simply nothing happening here at all and it is unbelievably boring to taste neat. It’s hard to believe that there is any malt whisky in this blend at all as it tastes very much like a bottom-grade 3 year old grain whisky. In Coke or dry ginger ale it adds a ghostly echo of scotch, and that’s about it. I recently re-reviewed Johnnie Walker Black Label and gave it the rather damning rating of 1.5. This is worse. Don’t waste your money. “Poor” : 60/100 (1 star)