Not sure which my favourite was, but I think #TheCairnDistillery 18 Year Old is the best bang for buck of the bunch. Thanks @thewhiskywire.bsky.social for organising. Love #BlueSkyTastings, they are like the old days of the other place.
#TheBorderDistillery
Right as rain blended Scotch Whisky
Finish: the chilli builds into the finish like a good curry meeting with a charred oak giving smoke sensations with some fired marshmallow
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#TheBordersDistillery
Right as rain Blended Scotch Whisky
Palate: Sweet from the grain, more delicate than the nose suggested, fruit perhaps gooseberries, melon & kiwi. Caramel & a low cocoa milk chocolate. Touch of white pepper & mild chilli.
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Finish: pepper, oak, salt, hint of distant smoke.
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Palate with water: Sweet raspberry, cranberry & melon. Pastry, cinnamon.
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Palate: Orange oil, red berries, cola cubes, pineapple cubes, ginger, cinnamon, clove, pepper & chilli. Crème Brûlée, malty & buttery biscuit base.
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Palate: Orange oil, red berries, cola cubes, pineapple cubes, ginger, cinnamon, clove, pepper & chilli. Crème Brûlée, malty & buttery biscuit base.
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Nose with Water: savoury dominates, some nuttiness, crème brûlée, strawberry & raspberry
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Spey 12 Year Old 57.6% ABV Brume Doree CS
Nose: Syrupy dark fruit; cranberry, sultana, orange peel, sarsaparilla, cinnamon, ginger, menthol. Vegetal & herbal.
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Finish: Oak, dry & bitter, pepper, lingering strawberry.
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Spey 15 Year Old Single Malt Whisky STR
Palate: Honey, caramel, wood shavings, strawberry laces, orange oil, crispy potato skins, cinnamon, ginger pickle, chilli
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Spey 15 Year Old 40% STR
Nose: Vegetal/Herbal; Damp hay, cardamom, pine nuts, basil - pesto? gnocchi, gram flour, mixed wood sawdust, orange oil, vanilla & caramel
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Spey 12 Year Old Single Malt
Palate with water: can just about cope with a drop of water which keeps the flavours but brings out more bitterness on the finish with oak being more pronounced.
Finish is peppery, chilli, caramel cremes.
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Spey 12 Year Old Single Malt Whisky 40% ABV
Palate: Fresh summer berries; raspberry, strawberry, melon, kiwi, apple & pear.
Honey richness with cream and black pepper leading to the finish.
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Nose with water: melon joins the fruit, now there is a salty almost umami savoury note. Perhaps introducing cola.
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Spey 12 Year Old
Nose Jammy berry fruits, sensation of summer; redcurrant, raspberry, grape must and skin with dark spices, sensation of winter Liquorice cardamom star anise clove
Very fresh and inviting. Nose suggests a sessionable whisky
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Finish: chilli & pepper, maybe some nut oil.
After a while a strong coffee bean with bitterness appears then goes, leaving a bitter drying oak.
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Palate Not as strong as the nose suggests. Initially dilute, but after a moment the dried dark fruits & spices show. More mince pie than xmas cake Vanilla & caramel are almost hidden by cinnamon & ginger
When it does arrive its very tasty 🥃
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Spey Chairman’s Choice 40% ABV
Nose: Dark berry fruits & slight mustiness, suggestions of sherry?
Perhaps some petrichor, Cola nut, grape skin, toffee pennies.
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