aacharbonneau
Aberfeldy 12 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
June 7, 2019 (edited June 21, 2019)
The third and final bottle I purchased this month for the whiskey club. Surprisingly the first scotch for the group.
Nose: Mmmmm... warm golden malt. Buttercream and graham crackers with a small amount of ripe pear. Sultanas and biscuits and a bit of vanilla. I've seen people say that they smell beeswax and I can definitely confirm that! We have about 50lbs of it on the shelf in the closet and it's identical (yes, I compared).
Palate: Cool, thick sweetness. Biscuits, toasted oats, shortbread cookies, maybe a small bit of coconut too. That graham cracker from the nose comes out on the palate as well. Lots of heather honey, like a cooling sweetness rather than cloying.
Finish: Medium length and mouthwatering. Dominated by toasty maltiness and biscuity shortbread. The honey lingers for whole time as well, though muted.
Conclusion: I wasn't completely sure this would be a worthwhile pour at first because I found the nose rather one-dimensional to begin with. I was definitely wrong! After delving into this, I found it to be way more complex that I first expected! What this lack in fruit and spice, it makes up for in a wide variety of biscuity, grainy, buttery notes. "One-dimensional" was not the correct term, it's more like a complex of similar notes.
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