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Longrow 21 Year (2020 Release)
Single Malt — Campbeltown, Scotland
Reviewed
November 29, 2020 (edited April 23, 2021)
So I'm actually drinking the 2020 which is 95% sherry and 5% bourbon. I have not seen any notes on production but I'd assume 3-4k given the age and distillery.
Nose - this is actually reminding me at the moment of a white wine, perhaps a chardonnay? The funk and peat give it this slightly sour note while the malt brings us some vanilla but then the funk of the sherry casks bring back elements that are more in line with a white wine. Very unique. The finish brings back in sugar cookies and lightly toasted oak barrels.
Taste - Savory and bready sweetness, transitioning to oak and sour and bitter sherry wine notes. There's artificial sweeter notes here. The finish is long and complex mostly focused on those sweet pastry notes. This is my 3rd time having this and each experience has been different though trending around a central theme. Funky and weird but not in the more intense ways of most longrows. The alcohol and body here come off heavier than an 18 but the wine casks aren't playing NEARLY the role. These are tired casks. Each taste seems to change the balance from sweet or sour to bitter, now tasting much more sour and bitter.
There's a level of complexity that's been achieved here that's remarkable. Longrow is boldly going as far away from the refined Macallan sweet forward drams as possible as they start off their higher end series. All I can say it be warned, this will note be for everyone, but the sheer complexity and depth achieved at 46% can't be under estimated. I'm at a 3.75 about an 89 though last night I was at a 90.
230.0
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