Grangestone Highland Single Malt Bourbon Cask Finish

Nose - apple juice, vanilla, cloying floral note, honey, grape, wet grass, lemon, cereal grain, hay, moderate to high ethanol burn. Taste - sweet and sour apple juice, honey, grape, vanilla, orange and lemon zest, fresh cut grass, grainy caramel, moderate to high alcohol bite, finishing fast and very sweet with young, bright alcohol and fading apple juice and honey flavors. This is not good, definitely a step down from the already very average 12 year offering. This one tastes very young and crosses into cloying territory. I really don’t like that sweet and sour apple juice note. It was on the 12 year as well, but it’s much more pronounced here than I remember it being on the other. At $25 for a single malt scotch, I imagine you get what you pay for. I’d rather spend the same money on a decent blended scotch and not mess with this one.

There is bourbon on the nose, but it’s a very basic Highland on the tongue.