Review: Adelphi Private Reserve Blended Whisky
Category: Blended scotch whisky
Origin: Adelphi Distillery (blending house)
Bottling: Adelphi
ABV: 40%
Cost: £20.95 from Master of Malt
Score: 77/100
What they say:
This blended whisky was made at the Adelphi distillery, excitingly this new distillery will begin distilling their own whisky in 2013! This blend is made from 30% Highlands and Islay malt whisky and 70% grain whisky.
Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Nose: The aroma is a pleasing fusion of salty peat and estery fruitiness. If you like your big fruits Speysiders and your peaty Islays this could be just your thing!
Palate: The palate takes on a coastal quality with an all-round nuttiness and a medium-body.
Finish: The finish is long with beach bonfire notes and some pear-drop flavours.
Overall: This blend takes the best of Scotland and fuses it into something new. A truly excellent blend.
What I say:
Sampled during one of the WOLS tastings
Colour:
Dark amber gold (11/20), medium-sized droplet tears and medium legs
Nose:
Fruity, banana and strawberry and vanilla milkshakes all in one! some mid-sweet toffee and honey, cereal barley, nougat leads into wisps of briny peat smoke
Taste:
Grainy (i.e. grain whisky), cereal, popcorn, fruity strawberries and cream, toffee and nut brittle, salt caramel and peat embers/wood smoke
Finish:
Relatively short and quite peaty
Overall:
Interesting but not overly complex blend, this actually felt a little un-mixed or un-married suggestive of maybe 2 or 3 main flavour carrying malts that hadn’t integrated that well? Considering the pricing this is still a nice drinking blend, possibly better with a mixer? One to experiment and have some fun with perhaps?
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