Cardhu Grande Cuvée Special Cask Reserve

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Cardhu
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ABV	40.0%
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Country	Scotland
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Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Fruity

Creamy

Honey

Floral

Dried Fruit

Citrus

Spicy

Nutty

Herbal

Smoky

Chocolate

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

full gold

air Nose

expectations met! (and I promise we’ll stop with our stupid analogies with Clynelish right here). Starts with superb notes of soot, ashes, coal and shoe polish as well as a little turpentine, motor oil, linseed oil, oil paint, metal (aluminium pan)... And paraffin. Unexpectedly, there’s little fruitiness here, no mangos, no bananas and no tangerines, but a superb dryness instead. Okay, maybe lemons... And coffee

restaurant Palate

just even more of the same, with maybe a little more lemon and certainly more oak, but it’s far from being drying oak. I know that Andrew Symington, who’s amongst the rare whisky people who will really tell you what they think of their whiskies – hence who keep their credibility whatever the circumstances (he’s not obligatorily thrilled, delighted and excited with just any booze that comes out of his warehouses) thinks that this one is a bit too woody but frankly, I’m sure it isn’t – at all. Sorry Andrew, it’s just a brilliant 40 years old Lochside, punto basta

timer Finish

long, on beautiful notes of crystallised oranges, wax and resin. And no, still not too much oak ;-). But it's for connaisseurs only (in French on purpose - note to self: aren’t you getting somewhat bigheaded?) 93 points. October 21, 2007 TASTING – THREE CARDHUS Cardhu 'Special Cask Reserve' (40%, OB, batch # Cs/cR.07.03, bottled 2007) There are several batches of this new Cardhu

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