Craigduff 1973 Signatory Tasting Notes and Ratings.

Craigduff 1973 Signatory

Added on Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:07 AM

Bottler:

Signatory

Age:	33 yrs	Type:	Scotch
Vintage:	1973	Subtype:	Single Malt
ABV:	47.50 %	Region:	Speyside
Price:	$300	Availability:	Specialty Stores

Distilled 04/04/1973 Bottled 16/08/2006 (UK dating)

Sherry Butt 371 bottles

Cask no. 2515

Member Ratings and Notes

Adam

Nose of toffee and sherry. Palate is tannic, rather rich, and medium-to-full-bodied. Flavors of coffee and cocoa/dark chocolate, bittersweet toffee. Very mild sweetness, quite dry and woody. There's also something vaguely chemical. Finish is medium-short and continues the theme. A little water makes this sweeter and better. Decent and mouth-filling.

Andy

n: Citrus, vanilla, sherry.

p: Varnish, lemon. Sweet at first but disappears fast. Finish is just an oily coat on the mouth. Orange cream soda.

B/B+

Fuji

N: Sweet nose of dried fruits and wine. Honey and mint, green apple skins and wet rocks.

P: Sweet, tart and lightly bitter on the palate. Good density. more of the green apple skin with brown pears and grapefruit. There's a slight funk to it.

F: Medium finish. Waxy bitter citrus.

I really liked the nose. If the taste would have held up, this would be a B+

Ries

n: malt and hard toffee, oatmeal with plump golden raisins. Light hint of those orange gummy candies that are coated in sugar and smouldering match.

t: liquid varnished oak that moves to red berry jam and orange creamsickle. Moves to a pastry like sweetness then goes to dry oak, and baked pear with a hint of smokey ash. Oily mouthfeel heavy on the sherry cask influence. Finish is lemon bars with powdered sugar on top and settles on the sherried oak at the end.

[B/B+ :: a tannic/bitter note in the middle keeps it from a B+]

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