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Dalwhinnie 15 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
July 16, 2022 (edited July 21, 2022)
N: Fruity and warm with baked berries and fresh baked pie crust. Strawberry, cherry, peach, and pear. Dash of charcoal ember that adds a savory and earthy note. Vanilla cream with citrus zest fresh grated on top. Lots to like here.
P: Creamy with a vanilla, orange, toasted marshmallow whip. Earthy and sweet with something of an aged tobacco note. Bit of a tropical note with possibly some pineapple. All of it leans floral and honeyed. Transition to finish brings the earthy back and spikes it with baking spices, particularly cumin, nutmeg, and maybe some dried tarragon. Finish itself is generally fruity with anonymous stone and orchard fruit notes with a swirl of orange. Whisper of cigarette smoke closes it out.
This is such a subtle dram. I'm at the end of the bottle and barely remember it - palatable and easy to drink, but otherwise forgettable - and yet when I really sit with it and pick it apart, there's more going on. Supposedly this is peated ever so slightly. Once you know that, you can taste it - mostly as a modifier of other tastes, adding toasted or smoked to something else - but it's very subtle. And really lovely. Given that I apparently stole this for roughly $30 below market anywhere else, I really can't complain (and may grab another, because it's still there at that price).
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Id buy it for 70$ Its real good quality
@soonershrink Some kind of crazy delays on the feed. Last update on mine is 14 hours old. $60 maybe, probably not more than that. I liked this, but there are many options in that range.
Also, I don’t know what’s going on with the site, but this review is not showing up in my feed, but was able to find it when I searched after seeing your bottle kill on Discord.
I’ve see this around for $60-70. Worth it at that price?