Rosencrantz
Macallan Edition No. 5
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
April 10, 2020 (edited May 18, 2020)
Explosion of vanilla on the nose, from an alcohol-soaked dessert (like a cream baba or a malaga), drop of honey, raisins, cinnamon, candied orange. Alcohol does not give room in time, while always remaining tied to the pastry vocation of whisky.
On the palate it is practically a cake distillate, even more than on the nose, oriented on the English soup with a massive presence of orange and vanilla cream, with alcohol that gives a light liveliness but without overdoing it. Linear in the aromas, without any significant variation, even letting it breathe.
Medium length finish, with raisins, vanilla, hazelnut.
This whisky evokes images from an English tea room, with upright ladies munching creamy desserts with silver forks, mulling over the latest news from the Royal Family.
Rather simple and clean, does't present much evolution or complexity, it offers what it promises, a pleasant drink and nothing more.
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