New PROVENANCE Bottlings, Plus 3 New Bottlings of PREMIER BARREL For August 2013 – Scotch Whisky News
New PROVENANCE Bottlings, Plus 3 New Bottlings of PREMIER BARREL For August 2013
This month we are releasing eight (8) new PROVENANCE Single Malt bottlings, three of which also appear as 20 cls bottlings, plus 3 new bottlings of PREMIER BARREL..
PROVENANCE Tasting Notes follow:
PRV1012 CAOL ILA YOUNG & FEISTY
Opens salty and sooty on the nose – smoked ham style before a burnt biscuit quality appears. The palate is oily, carrying a dry, smoky character and develops to a charred malt quality. Long is an understatement here as the finish is massively Islay in style and just runs and runs. (J)
PRV1029 TALISKER YOUNG & FEISTY
Clean, salty, peppery, ozone-y- and, sweetly smoked – all apply to its nose. Oceanic, with sweet peat and sweet malt plus iodine warming up the palate – it all runs to a finish with phenolic quality, mocha and more salty cues. (F)
PRV1010 GLEN GRANT 9 YEARS
The nose opens with a fruity (macerated watermelon) style then develops to a delicate honey’d sweet character. Initially sweetly spiced and still honey’d, the palate then runs to a peppery, spiced quality. The finish is medium long, still spiced and carries an orange pith style. (J)
PRV1028 BALMENACH 10 YEARS
Opens clean and fresh on the nose, carrying a crushed sugar and fruitily sweet character. The palate remains sweet and develops to a crisp malty quality running to smooth honey. The finish is medium long – now running spicier – with a dry oak style. (J)
PRV1019 MACDUFF 15 YEARS
Opens with a buttery sweet character on the nose and carries a creamy vanilla’d quality plus apricot jam. The palate is sweetly spiced, carrying a ripe fruit character. The finish is medium long with barley sugar, then develops to a drier, spicy style. (J)
PRV1024 BRAEVAL 12 YEARS
The nose opens attractively spiced with a bees wax quality and develops to flambée’d orange zest – crêpe suzette style. The palate is warming, still spicy with more orange qualities – now infused in warm caramel. The long finish remains zesty before running drier to lemon pith. (J)
PRV1026 TAMDHU 12 YEARS
Heavy with toffee and a crunched sugar character as it opens on the nose – softening to a more citric and clean style.. The palate is full – mouthcoatingly sweet, again with a toffee flavour – later with juicy barley, raisin and honey– all of which are rounded up in the big, more spiced finish (F)
PRV1016 GLENGOYNE 15 YEARS
Opens fresh and fragrant on the nose, carrying a buttery, sweet quality plus a malty character. The palate opens sweetly and develops to candied fruit. The finish is medium long, still sweet, with toffee and a late orange pith style. (J)
PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes:
PBR0126 Talisker 5 YEARS
Talk to me Talisker – and tabulate tutorially your talismanic penchant for perky pepperiness and peat with particulary pelagic properties of stimulating sweet and saline spirited/spell boundedness. (F)
PBR0127 Craigellachie 8 YEARS
Covet this cracker of a Craigellachie! Gloriously gristy, sympathetically spiced – furthermore, full bodied – fundamentally FIRST rate and frankly frightfully fructiferous (F)
PBR0128 Mortlach 10 YEARS
Michty (sic) me! Manage magnanimously my monumental mainstay of this mollifying Mortlach. Hospitably hail its hallmarked halo of honest, heart warming – and high spirited honey. (F)
PRV1024 BRAEVAL 12 YEARS
The nose opens attractively spiced with a bees wax quality & develops to flambée’d orange zest–crêpe suzette style. The palate is warming, still spicy with more orange qualities–now infused in warm caramel. The long finish remains zesty before running drier to lemon pith. (J)
PRV1026 TAMDHU 12 YEARS
Heavy with toffee and a crunched sugar character as it opens on the nose – softening to a more citric and clean style.. The palate is full – mouth coatingly sweet, again with a toffee flavour – later with juicy barley, raisin and honey– all of which are rounded up in the big, more spiced finish (F)
PRV1016 GLENGOYNE 15 YEARS
Opens fresh and fragrant on the nose, carrying a buttery, sweet quality plus a malty character. The palate opens sweetly and develops to candied fruit. The finish is medium long, still sweet, with toffee and a late orange pith style. (J)
PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes:
PBR0126 Talisker 5 YEARS
Talk to me Talisker – and tabulate tutorially your talismanic penchant for perky pepperiness and peat with particulary pelagic properties of stimulating sweet and saline spirited/spell boundedness. (F)
PBR0127 Craigellachie 8 YEARS
Covet this cracker of a Craigellachie! Gloriously gristy, sympathetically spiced – furthermore, full bodied – fundamentally FIRST rate and frankly frightfully fructiferous (F)
PBR0128 Mortlach 10 YEARS
Michty (sic) me! Manage magnanimously my monumental mainstay of this mollifying Mortlach. Hospitably hail its hallmarked halo of honest, heart warming – and high spirited honey. (F)
