anCnoc 14yo 1993/2007 (43%, OB)

Pronounced ‘a-nock’. Unchill-filtered which is very decent of them not to do so; what strip out flavour? The nose is big syrupy fruit; like tinned peaches in syrup with some good malt hanging around in the back ground. There’s also a good bit of varnish or tobacco (a good bit not a bad bit). All very clean and pleasing. The taste is much like the nose; lots of syrupy fruit and tobacco (cured but not lit, like smelling a cigarette before it’s lit or a pouch full of tobacco). However the two are reversed, now the tobacco, oak and malt are first and the syrupy fruit is lagging behind. A big taste for sure and still very pleasant. The finish is warming, very active and long and once again the afore mentioned descriptors are very much in evidence. After a minute or two some very nice malt arrives to tie everything together quite nicely.

A dram that show just what anCnoc is capable of.

£35 +/- however now sold out sadly.

Score 88 points

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