Cardhu Special Cask Reserve Speyside
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Cardhu |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2006 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
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