alc./vol: 43%
Proof: 86°
Vintage: Non-vintage
Aged: No age statement
Product of: United Kingdom
A limited annual release made by vatting four specially selected casks, two first fill ex-sherry pipes and two American oak hogsheads. This malt does not carry an age statement but should be considered 18 to 25 years old. Production is limited to around 3,000 individually numbered bottles a year.
Sampled on 25/10/2012
(Bottle No. 4991 of 6540, bottled 2008) Clear, coppery amber with bight burnished copper highlights.
Red apple skin, nubuck leather and fresh cut hay with subtle sherry, dried fruit, newly shelled peanuts, dark chocolate and flamed orange zest.
Rich yet strangely dry with honey and dry smoke balancing each other. Sweet green apples,deliatly spiced oak and restrained Christmas cake.
Red apple skin and lightly spiced oak with faint cigarette ash. Sherry flavours slightly mask the green and apple notes associated with Royal Lochnagar but they are still present.
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