Speyburn 10 Year

This is definitely a ‘gatekeeper’ scotch. For the money ($30 OR prices) you have a crowd pleaser/daily drinker thats hard to beat. I mean, JW Black is $10 more. Not much of a challenge here but it’s a good relaxing sipper. At this price point, Lismore is competition but this is a little ’cleaner’ tasting. A great ‘fair game’ bottle.

Very inexpensive as far as scotch goes. Neat, has thin legs, Noses ripe fruit in a humid basement with a dirt floor. I pick up kiwi for sure along with golden raisin and whispy smoke . Light mouthfeel with a splash of raisiny fruit, smooth malt and some tobacco/light peat notes. Has a bit of heat to it as well. Finish is light smokiness and malt trailing to slight dryness. I can taste sweet potato too. Savory though a tad thin. Overall I have enjoyed this bottle as a budget single malt but this is better suited for newcomers to scotch. Good value though

Clean malt, bright, soft vanilla butter cream, only a tiny bit sherry, fruit, ethanol. Decent, good, still on the mild side. Great value!

Courtesy Kastle de la Kitchen. A nice, soft dram with whiffs of toffee, and nuts. Some fruit and a hint of smoke make this an excellent “every day” malt.

Nose is Sherry cask stuff: tannins and cherrywood. The nose is very much barrel-wood forward. The vanilla, buttery shortbread and salt play the back row. The burn is mild. Taste is mild tobacco ash, and metallic like pennies. Finished oak and bitter plum and prune. With a little water the flavors smooth out: the shortbread and salt pop, and toasted coconut stops by. The finish is more sherry barrels; perfume kissed off of your best girl's neck. Suntan lotion and a mild nuttiness. Tobacco leaf sits in the back of the tongue like a recently-puffed cigar. Speyburn 10 is a Scotch that's both mild and complex, challenging and yet highly sippable. It rewards you when you sit with it a spell.