Distillery | Linkwood |
Bottler | Elixir Distillers |
Serie | The Single Malts of Scotland |
Bottled for | |
Distilled date | 01.11.2011 |
Bottling date | 27.07.2020 |
Country | Scotland |
Region | Speyside |
Age | 8 |
Cask Type | Ex-Sherry Butt |
Cask Number | 306020 |
Alcohol percentage | 57.9 |
Volume | 0,70 |
Condition | In original container |
Label | Perfect |
Stock | 0 |
As we all know, Linkwood tends to take sherry well… Colour: straw. Nose: my goodness, olive and sesame oils! And peanut oil! What's this magic? Then sour oranges and notes of fino, as well as fresh walnuts just fallen from the tree. With water: panettone and kougelhopf dough, more peanut oil, less of the other oils. Mouth (neat): rich char, oranges, lemon drops, earl grey and Timut pepper. You're right, no oils this time, perhaps a tiny dollop of sesame? With water: as almost always, the lemons tend to have the upper hand in good whiskies, which is the case here. Finish: medium, pretty tight, lemony, but with an oily texture again. Comments: supersonic nose, the palate was very good too but it was more the speed of a Boeing. Impressive at just 8.