Pittyvaich 1989 30 Year Old Special Releases 2020

Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

• Nose

  Fruit Salad sweets, unripe pineapple, aromatic apple and perfectly ripe pear. Sweet cream follows, studded with dried fruit: tropical trail-mix with sultanas and milk chocolate buttons. Pink shrimp sweets develop along with leafy green herbs.

• Palate

  Soft and rounded with a core of tropical fruit – a tin of fruit salad (drained) with a drizzle of single cream. Oaky spice develops along with biscuit notes and the leafy green notes from the nose: freshly picked, hand-rubbed hops and aromatic herbs.

• Finish

  The leaves linger, with flashes of fruit and spice. Fruity hops remain.

• Comment

  I’ve got a weird, leafy, hoppy note off the last few Pittyvaich Special Releases, and it’s back again here in spades. PIttyvaich continues to be ‘the weird one’, but if you like the green note, you’ll like this.