Palate: Sherry, big grape notes but also a coastal, salty character which is a bit odd for a Longmorn.
Finish: Sweet and spicy.
This first presents as a sherried malt but then those coastal, salty notes creep in, making this a really fabulous and fascinating whisky. I kept coming back to it.
n: old school, antique sherry cask. Boiled down cherry juice with dark vanilla bean. Moist christmas fruitcake full of black raisins and cloves.
t: powerful sherry soaked oak, savoury spices, and dried fruit (prunes and smokey cooked raisins). Middle is all musty oak but with a cherry sweetness enhanced by dry leaf tobacco. Finish has a tease of smoked sea salt. Very complex as the cask enhances the flavours but doesn't overpower it into a sherry bomb.
[A/A-, I could smell this all day as perfume; wonderful nose]
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