Lochside 1981 CA Authentic Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Lochside |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | Authentic Collection |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2000 |
| Age | 23년 |
| Cask Type | Sherrywood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.7% |
| Volume | 700 ml 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
deep amber – brownish
air Nose
rather powerful, starting quite caramelly and very winey, with whiffs of smoke. It isn’t too expressive, even after a good ten minutes, with just notes of dried oranges. Very unusual for a Lochside, I guess the sherry’s really too dominating. Let’s try it with water… Right, it gets more herbal as often, smokier, with notes of wet chalk, stones, rosehip tea and something meaty. Nice but not a thilling
restaurant Palate
powerful and very sweet again. Almost sugarish. Extremely caramelized, with something slightly sour… Lots of dried oranges as well, heavily sugared orange marmalade, Cointreau… something bitter in the background (rubber). Quite enjoyable in fact but really simple. With water: not much changes this time, maybe more praline, toasted bread and a pinch of salt. The finish is rather long but marked by some notes of burnt cake and bitter caramel. In short an okay Lochside but the sherry really overwhelms Lochisde’s trademark fruity notes and maybe the whole lacks complexity – too bad! Not even sure they were there in the first place! Now, it’s not a flawed whisky, far from it. 78 points . Lochside 23 yo 1981/2005 (56.7%, Cadenhead, Portwood matured, 246 bottles)
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