Product Description
Our Whisky of the Year for 2022, this 18-year-old Highland malt is matured entirely in first-fill Bourbon casks, dialling up Deanston’s trademark tropical fruit and honey character to eleven and reinforcing it with rich American oak notes of butter and vanilla. Fantastic stuff.
Style
Style
- Body3
- Richness4
- Smoke0
- Sweetness3
Character
Character
- Lemon
- Honey
- Vanilla
- Pear
- Cinnamon
- Sultana
Product Facts
Product Facts
Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Age
Country
Scotland
Region
Highland
Cask Type
First-Fill Bourbon
Chill Filtered
No
Deanston 18 Year Old
70cl / 46.3%
In stock online
£89.95
Web Exclusive Price
£74.96 ex VAT
(£128.50 per litre)
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Delivery
Delivery
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From £6.95
Standard delivery (2-4 Working Days)
From £4.95
Click & Collect (Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm)
Free
How We Pack
Eco-friendly packaging
Our boxes are made of 100% recyclable cardboard and our protective honeycomb paper wrap keeps your package safe and significantly reduces our need for plastic.
Flexible delivery options
We deliver to countries all over the world! You can also select express delivery, or pick a specific delivery date, at checkout.
Packed with care
Our experienced warehouse team take great care with every order. As specialists in glass packaging they ensure that your items stay safe and secure in transit.
Returns
30-Day returns policy
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Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes
Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange
Nose
Well-balanced toffee and zingy lemons are joined by notes of biscuits and patisserie – shortbread and Danish pastries. Malty notes build but are balanced by candied citrus, sharp fresh and sweet baked apples with a dusting of cinnamon sugar. Fruit pushes through middle: sultanas and pears, with a pinch of nutmeg and cherry hints.
Palate
Creamy with the toffee and biscuits from the nose. The toffee quickly turns fruity, bring back rich stewed apple sauce – both sour and sweet – with plump sultanas and slightly unripe pears. Aniseed-ball heat builds, followed by vanilla shortbread rolled in cinnamon sugar.
Finish
Apple peel and lemon zest fade to leave spiced shortbread, apple pips and almonds.
Your New Favourite Distillery
For most of its life, Deanston was one of Scotland’s great workhorse distilleries – dutifully turning out stock for blenders. But in recent years it has emerged as a rising star of the single malt category. The Deanston core range offers a masterclass in contemporary whisky making: it contains malts made from Scottish barley, bottled at 46.3% ABV as standard, and offered without colouring or chill-filtration. Add the fact that each one is made using sustainable hydroelectric power and you have the perfect dram for the 21st century.
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Customer Reviews
(9 Reviews)
Amazing. Feels like a drop of honey in the middle of rich highland whisky. Worth the money.
It's a solid 3 stars considering age and price. Enjoyable dram, wouldn't go out of my way to get it again.
Well deserved whisky of the year. Will be hard to beat. One of those bottles that are there for special occasions
It’s a seriously good whisky. And at such an affordable price. On the nose I get vanilla shortbread. Mouthfeel is almost oily, with a good tingle of tanin. The taste has something reminds me of stewed apple, sweet but not overly so. Finish is long sandalwood. If you take a sip of water soon after, you can taste it again. It’s the kind of whisky I’d save to give to someone who thinks there’s nothing worth drinking outside Speyside.
Disappointing