skillerified
Dewar's 15 Year The Monarch
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
September 30, 2020 (edited September 10, 2021)
N: Sweet fruit, then floral and medicinal notes. Fruit is peach first, then leaning orchard with pear and apple. Faintly bready and nutty as well. Very pleasant, but also a bit nondescript. Too hard of a swirl brings out way more ethanol than expected - casual drinking and nosing doesn't get there, but a hard swirl in search of more scents is rewarded with booze and numbness.
M: Interestingly different from the nose. Dark cherries, milk chocolate powder, then apples with faint sourness. Very mild smoke with faraway leather and cigar like flavors. Heavy, coating mouthfeel, almost chewy - and quite nice in that way. Finish is light, but persistent, cinnamon and clove. Chocolate flavors also build over time and mingle pleasantly with the spice.
Nothing really pops and wows in this bottle, but the overall experience is, as I said, quite nice. Feels about right for the price. Definite step up from the 12 year. I would buy this again, but wouldn't go out of my way for it either.
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@skillerified Yeah, if I'm looking for $40 or less, I'm probably going for bourbon in terms of VFM. Actually, these days I'm probably going for bourbon up to an even higher limit since the tariffs are beating the snot out of imports :(
@ContemplativeFox Yeah, VFM is the way to think about it, but probably only in context of blended scotch. You can probably find a better $40 bourbon or Irish whiskey. That said, saw the 18 year Dewar's on a shelf this week for $10 more than this. Curious now.
I've heard pretty good things about this one and Dewar's in general lately. Sounds like some good VFM.