Snoof says on November 17, 2023
General description
Fire and miss, unfortunately...
Nose
I’ve not tried the experimental series before but I’ve always thought Glenfiddich doesn’t go far wrong. On the nose with this, I got vanilla and caramel, and in all honesty, I didn’t find much beyond a generic Scotch. There was some spice to follow, no doubt, but nothing in the way of smoke or peat but just a touch of orchard fruit. The whisky tasted like a fairly aged thing, but without the complexity that usually accompanies such a dram. For an experiment, this hasn’t begun with any risk…
Palate
Smooth, in fairness, with much of what’s gone before on the nose continuing on the palate. There is allegedly a solid peat influence in here, but I must have got a much newer or much older batch, because I couldn’t find peat and only a smidge of smoke, and the orchard fruit was a little more apparent in the taste, but there wasn’t much else.
Finish
Long and still pretty smooth and fairly easy drinking. There is a residual smokiness in places, but it feels almost Irish sacrilegiously at times, with the vanilla, caramel, oak and green apple combo that is so, so prevalent in whisky with an ‘e’. I didn’t expect to uproot oak trees with this one, but I thought that in view of the cask influence there would be something of rum and something of peat to be found, whereas I found a Scotch experimenting with being from across the water…
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