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Founder's Reserve
Age: 10 yo
Strength: 40%
Bottler: Distillery
Tasting Notes:
n & p: Rich creamy aroma and flavour. Grass, honey, a hint of smoke, cream, sweet. Fantastic. Why oh why are they discontinuing this?
F: longer (to me) than the older expressions.
Status: 3 Unopened
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Founder's Reserve (Cognac Bottle)
Tasting Notes: None
Status: Unopened
Doublewood
Age: 12 yo
Strength: 43%
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1993 PortWood
Vintage: 1993
Status: Sold
Roasted Malt
Age: 14 yo
Strength: 47.1%
N: cooking fairy cakes. Candied almonds - strongly. Biscuits P: If you like sweet malts (I do) you should love this. The biscuits are still there with some fruitiness that I can't place. There's just a hint of bitterness behind the sweetness now F:not long, but it's long enough for the style.
Status: 2 unopened
Single Barrel
Age: 15 yo
Strength: 47.8%
Cask # 154
Bottle # 35
Distilled: 28.02.1991
Bottled: 23.11.2006
N: Bramley Apple pie, cocoa, coconuts. It made Mrs C57 sneeze - therefore it is pure cocoa not milk chocolate. Some grassy aromas in there too. P: oh yes this is very nice indeed. Vanilla, the custard or ice cream to go with the apple pie Still got the coconuts.
Status: Emptied
Islay Cask
Age: 17 yo
Status: 2 Unopened
New Wood
PortWood
Age: 21 yo
Strength: 46.9%
N: Port and strawberries! Remarkably strong strawberry aroma P: Port all over it but I don't find it too much. Mint, surprisingly Straw too This is much better than I remember it. (Mind you I do have lots of Balvenies so I know I am a lover of it) F:longer than the others. Lingering cream, oak, port, honey. Yummy stuff
Status: Emptied 14.09.2010
Single Barrel 25yo
Age: 25 yo
Vintage: 1974
Cask # 10151
Bottle # 247
Distilled: 02.08.1974
Bottled: 27.09.2000
Status: 1 Unopened
Cask # 10157
Bottle # 187 (smoke damage)
Bottled: 28.09.2000
