This will make my 3rd bottle of Glenallachie...a distillery I haven't yet bonded with. This time around it is the 7th edition of these 10 year old CS bottles. This one had a staggering 60,000 bottles made, massively up from what was already a huge release for batch 6. I've already got all kinds of concerns about quality with that kind of production increase. This has the same formula of the last few release. PX, Oloroso, virgin oak, and some kind of red wine cask (I think it's red). Sounds a bit messy, but I'm hoping it's going to impress me. Nose - I smells like some kind of medicinal oak to start and then I start getting rancid red wine notes. There's horse hair and blankets. I'm unfortunately not thinking "oh something went wrong" because I had the 15 year which while much more enjoyable, certainly gave me some similar profile notes. Even the 29 year old single cask I have gives me similar "WTF" oak notes. Powering through the unpleant oak and wine, I get nice berries, hints of chocolate, and frankly a nice sherry element. I'm starting to think some of these off notes are their malt though I seem to recall having an ex bourbon IB that was fairly nice. Taste - The taste thankfully is much less difficult. Sweet, warming, rich and complex flavors really rush to you surface, I'll need some time to address these. Right off the batch it's chocolate and sherry goodness with a thick sweet malt. That then meetes some umami/wine and heavy oak...this combined with a nutty and barn like malt element. I'm thinking some kind of steak sauce meets farm elements, meets baking chocolate, and then just big old oak elements. I can't say I hate it, but I can't say I want to drink it either. Heavy water brings it into more of a chocolate oak with a bit of still and butter scotch and still some barn funk. I think I like it more with the heavy water? Guys I have nothing on how to score this. I'll give it a 1.5. It's under 100 bucks in the UK. It's CS and the color is at least natural. For that alone I guess it's ok. But I don't really understand who is looking for this whisky.