21 Year Old

Tasting Notes

• Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

  • Nose

    Layers of fruit slowly climb out of the glass: sweet apple and white-wine-poached pear, raisins and sultanas, flambéed pineapple and creamy banana splits. A touch of mint fondant follows, leading to madeira-soaked spiced sponge cake and old, wax-polished floors. The fruity notes build, as the whisky sits in the glass, joined by freshly cut grass.

  • Palate

    Rich and creamy on the palate with milky coffee quickly swamped by the fruit from the nose: more apples and pears as well as tropical fruit jelly. Darker notes of polished oak and bittersweet dark chocolate build underneath, along with spicy cinnamon and clove, and a balancing dusting of brown sugar. Old leaves appear at the end, drifting across an autumnal forest floor.

  • Finish

    The creaminess lingers, with old oak and a touch of cherry sweetness fading to leave mocha coffee.