Cask No. 30.96

Cask No. 30.96

Bloody Mary on a dressing table

Speyside, Spey

Gentle and Mellow whispered our panellists, sniffing mango, peach and honeydew melon, lemon puffs, fruit-cake, vanilla sponge and banana bread; sherry and dried apricots gave cask clues. The palate was tasty, warming and complex caramel wafer, muscovado, walnut cake and dark chocolate souffl against charcuterie, woody tannins and burnt paper. The reduced nose gave one panellist a boozy chocolate fondue (dipping sponge fingers, bananas and grapes); another got a celery stick bloody Mary on a ladys dressing table. The palate had Jaffa cakes, crme brle and nutty chocolate; melon, kiwi, and dried figs, plus hints of roast duck and barbecued steaks.

Cask:Refill hogshead
Age: 20 years
Date distilled:February 1997
Alcohol: 54.9%
USA allocation: 48 bottles