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Glenmorangie The Tribute 16 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
August 24, 2023 (edited August 2, 2024)
A new travel retail expression from Glenmorangie has reached the stores. "The Tribute" is a lightly peated single malt, with a 16yo age statement, that tells the story of how in the early years, this distillery used to used a peat kiln to burn the barley.
Bottled at 43%abv, it comes in a 1 litre decanter.
On the nose, it is actually smoky. Vanilla, it doesn't have the typical orange note from Glenmorangie. Fondant and stewed apples. Sider, impalpable sugar and peaches. After a first sip, the aroma changed into a watered ashtray and coconut. Not too powerful but fairly complex on the nose.
On the palate, i get peaches, hints of smoke, chilli. A second sip gave me a thick apple juice. Mott's Apple Juice.
Aftertaste is all about chilli, smoke and salt.
Overall, my tasting and aroma notes might give you the impression of a complex and rich dram, but it really has all the notes described but delivered in a dim, light way that somehow feel disonant. My score for this fair dram is an 84 over 100.
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