An independent bottling from The Coopers Choice (The Vintage Malt Whisky Company) and bottled without chill filtration. The nose reveals is clean with spiced malt (wood notes and malt) with a back ground of light vanilla and honey. With water the nose changes and become very green and sweet (pizza dough and honey) but after a few minutes this changes to become much more sweet. The taste is strong and oily (buttery) with light sherry, tea and oak well integrated. There is also some fruit in the form of apricots, orange zest and fruit cake. Later stages of leather or dark black tea. Very much in the fruity and woody slice of the flavour pie. With water the taste improves quite a bit and the mouth feel is smoothed out and much more pleasant. A nice surprise. The finish is long with malt, dry oak and toffee and is quite pleasant. Not an aggressive whisky that jumps up and grabs you by the throat but most definitely improves with both time and water. After a number of minutes the malt character is quite dramatic and is very pleasant.

Great value for the price; malty and winey.

$C115                      

Score 83 Points

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