PBMichiganWolverine
The Winter Queen (Adelphi)
Blended Malt — Multiple Countries
Reviewed
April 28, 2018 (edited October 21, 2024)
This was my bonus offering for our little tour. What really intrigued me in this blend was the combination of Dutch and Scottish malts. Not something you see often. It’s not readily available either, just a few hundred bottles or so, in northern EU and UK markets. Immediately at pour, I loved the color :mahogany. The nose is more like rye...baking spices, cinnamon, bread. The taste has layers of complexity—-you get a rye like zing from a youthful Dutch, but it balances out against the more robust and elegant two Scottish players. If tasted blind, I’d have guessed this was a well aged rye that’s tempered with a finishing, or it’s a unique Compass Box blend. I think I got this barely over for $100...wish I bought two. @Generously_Paul @LeeEvolved @Telex @Scott_E hopefully you guys will like this one
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@Soba45 that’ll be interesting. Just like this bought a young fiesty rye-like flavor from the Millstone Dutch roots, I’d imagine the E&K to bring the brutish Amrut, but pacified by the two Scots
@PBMichiganWolverine Good review as always :-). I see Adelphi have come out with an Indian (Amrut) scotch (Ardmore Glenrothes) whiskey fusion as well called E&K
Sounds like a winner.