Product Description

Sitting in the heart of Speyside, Aberlour is well known for its incredible sherry-cask-matured releases, including the hugely successful A’Bunadh. When offered the chance to select a cask of whisky to be bottled exclusively for The Whisky Exchange by the distillery, the choice was obvious. Cask #4738 is a first-fill sherry cask, filled with Aberlour’s weighty spirit and left to slowly mature for 16 years. The result is a hugely flavoursome whisky, packed with rich fruity flavour and dark sherry character.

Style

5
Body
4
Richness
0
Smoke
3
Sweetness

Character

Earth
Dates
Liquorice root
Leather
Christmas Cake
Clove

Product Facts

Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Age
16 Year Old
No of Bottles
282
Country
Scotland
Region
Speyside
Cask Type
First-fill Sherry Hogshead
Cask Number
4738
Chill Filtered
No
Colouring
No

Aberlour 16 Year Old Single Cask TWE Exclusive

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling

70cl / 53.5%

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Tasting Notes

Tasting notes by Billy A
- Nose
  Rich and sticky, with cinder toffee, caramel sauce and vanilla-rich milk chocolate to start. Weighty and fruity notes of spiced raisins, warm leather, molasses, stewed plums, dates and flamed orange zest develop, with spicy cloves and hints of autumn forest.
- Palate
  Initially softer than the nose suggests, but after a burst of sweet berry fruit, prickly intensity rolls in. Spice – nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, anise and liquorice root – is joined by stewed fruit and rich Christmas-pudding sweetness. Savoury notes develop: charcoal, dark leather, tobacco and damp oak, but behind everything is a butter-and-brown-sugar sweetness, with flashes of marzipan-iced fruit cake.
- Water
  It can take water well, evening out both the sweet and savoury notes, leaving liquorice, blackcurrant jam and fruit cake.
- Finish
  Long and rich, with sweet stewed fruit and black liquorice slowly becoming savoury and revealing earthy dunnage warehouse notes and ashy barrel char.
- Comment
  An intense but well-balanced sherry-matured dram, marrying Aberlour's weighty spirit with a punchy cask. The spirit stands up well to the experience, and the combination is rich and fruity with a spicy and savoury backbone.
Producer's Notes
- Nose
  Intensely fruity with notes of homemade raspberry jam, candied orange peel, treacle and ginger.
- Taste
  Ripe peach flavours, treacle echoing the nose, liquorice, aniseed with a velvety smooth texture.
- Finish
  Long and sweet with a tantalisingly spicy finish.