Bill-Shannon
Craigellachie 13 Year
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
August 12, 2020 (edited November 9, 2020)
Beautiful thick legs on this baby. Dark honey color. The nose is salted butterscotch, toffee/molasses, and sherry-wine barrel. Peppercorn and white oak. Mild white plastic. A touch of mint leaf, and more than just a hint of lemon zest, which really ramps up at the tail end. There is a burn right at the beginning, with some fusel heat.
The taste is more salty butterscotch, but heavy on the "butter;" almost has a heavy cream component. This dovetails into a second wave of vanilla creme, like the kind you'd find filling a candy bar or sandwich cookie.
Apple skins and a bit of baby puke. There is a little burn, but it is smoothed over by that coffee creamer and lemon drop.
If you give this baby a little Kentucky Chew, the peat and smoke bust through like a vapor up through a manhole cover. Spearmint leaf with even a bit of a cooling feel accompanying it.
Surprisingly, the finish is tobacco/ashtray, which is unusual given how mild and smooth the taste is. The tobacco leaves a cigar burn in the middle of the palate. Some peppery oak on the tail end.
It is by turns smooth at first and challenging at the end, like a cigar that starts off sweet and ends with a smoldering, ashy burn.
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I don't think there is any difference between color of plastic. it just reminded me of sniffing the inside of a paint bucket, so white plastic it is! @ContemplativeFox
Nice tasting notes. Craigellachie makes some good juice :) I'd be curious to know how white plastic differs in flavor from other colors of plastic though (I know that some dyes taste different, but I'm not familiar enough with plastic).