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GlenAllachie 4 Year Peated Single Malt (Billy Walker 50th Anniversary Future Edition)
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
March 20, 2023 (edited August 16, 2023)
Billy Walker is like the king of whisky making. He has been doing incredible "uisgebeathas" for a long time. To be precise, he has been making whisky for 50 long years.
Nowadays he owns one of the arguably best distilleries in the world, The GlenAllachie, which has earned that reputation because of this member of the whisky Hall of Fame.
That is the proper explanation for my next review, the 4 year old, "Future" expression of GlenAllachie. A Peated single malt for the first time in this distillery's history; it honours the 50th anniversary of Billy Walker making the finest single malts in the world.
Bottled at cask strength, 60.2%abv, this very young whisky is quite intriguing.
On the nose, almost perfect. Smoked oranges, bacon, honey, BBQ sauce. Sausage, ribs and a nice spiciness. It maintains the fruity profile of GlenAllachie but it also has an aromatic peat feeling. After a sip, the aroma changed into lotion for burnt skin, kerosene and meat. Incredibly stuff. The empty glass gave me some milky reminiscense.
On the palate, pure perfection. orange marmalade, chocolate. When you "chew" this dram a powerful red hot chilli will be released into your soul. Vanilla, toffee and oranges.
Aftertaste is quite smokey! Tobacco, cuban cigars, orange peels. Very acid in a wonderful way. Hints of salt.
Overall, this was incredible, specially when we stop ourselves for a second to think that this single malt is only 4 years old. It is called "Future" as a part of the 50th Anniversary collection, that has other two 16yo expressions: Past and Present. This is a "wink" or a hint where this distillery is going from now on. An amazing single malt, suitable to celebrate 5 decades of wonderful whisky making. My score for it is 98 over 100, Sláinte Mhath!
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I saw this pop up in a few places here . The price seemed outrageous at $150, considering it’s a 4 yr old.