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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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February 3, 2017 |
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Yes, some Deanston for a change. Not that there are many of them around, but I’m trying to give each and every distillery a chance every once in a while. So, today, it’s Deanston’s choice… |
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Deanston 15 yo 1997/2013 (46%, Signatory Vintage, Un-chillfiltered Collection, refill butt, cask #1343, 787 bottles)  Colour: pale gold. Nose: nice! First tobacco, gunpowder, mustard, and walnuts, then bitter oranges and leather, then malt and leather. It’s got an amontillado feeling that I really enjoy, you could chill this and sip it while eating olives somewhere in a small plaza in Jerez. Mouth: a little more candied and malty at first sips, but the dry leathery sherry is soon to strike back, with its attendant walnuts and bitter oranges. It’s even got a fino-ish minerality, and even this saltiness. Really very nice, if this as refill indeed, and I wouldn’t doubt that, it was second fill. Finish: medium, with more walnuts and salty candied oranges. Comments: there are real gems within this rather affordable series by Signatory, and this dry Deanston was another example. Some sister casks had been less ‘clean’, in my opinion. SGP:362 - 84 points. |
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Deanston ‘Batch 2’ (49.6%, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, 248 bottles, +/-2014) Ah those funny NAS! Colour: straw. Nose: oh this is funny indeed. Whiffs of soap and musty cellar, greens covered with mint sauce, damp fabric, plasticine, metal polish, engine grease, sour apples, dough, lemon juice… Very unusual indeed. Mouth: more catholic, as we Catholics say, with cleaner oranges and other citrus fruits, fresh caramel, green gooseberries and rhubarb, fresh hazelnuts, and perhaps a pinhead of lavender soap. Forgot to mention plasticine. Finish: rather long, greener and a little bitterer. Pinesap? Comments: unusual indeed. Perhaps not a bottle that you’d down in a flash, but whenever you need a different and totally un-commercial dram, this baby would make for a worthy candidate. The whisky world needs these funny drams. SGP:361 - 83 points. |
(With thanks to Greg and Paul) |
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