Rosencrantz
Glenglassaugh Torfa
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
December 22, 2019 (edited February 8, 2021)
The color in the glass is full gold.
The nose is very fresh and sweet, with vanilla, caramel, melon and a persistent herbaceous scent. The peat is little more than an ethereal puff of smoke that twists the aromas, more marine than fleshy (one reviewer I read speaks of "smoked herring", and I would say that makes the idea).
On the palate the youthfulness of the malt is felt, at times almost cloying, were it not that the alcohol breaks the tone giving the boost to the mineral peat, still accompanied by caramel and ripe fruit. A touch of pepper and ginger revive the taste, which however remains always very fresh and pleasant, alternating sweetness and salinity in a fairly balanced way. To be peaty, I must say that there is little smoke here, we are more on a meadow overlooking the ocean to munch a ripe melon, looking for someone who has a lighter.
And evidently in the end we found them, because in the end here comes some ash with fruit and a touch of ginger, medium long.
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