Aberlour A’Bunadh is considered one of these whiskies that I prefer to revisit once in a while. In a method it’s a very attribute dram if you wish to find out how sherry maturation has modified through the years. Extra vanilla, extra wooden as such, shedding a few particular aromas like tobacco, and fewer intense total. I attempted A’Bunadh Batch 71 about two years in the past.
For those who didn’t know already, this whisky is artificially colored – fairly a disgrace, even once you insist on making clear it comes from sherry casks.
Aberlour A’Bunadh – Batch #77 (60,8%, OB 2023, Oloroso sherry butts)
Nostril: vanilla and milk chocolate at first, adopted by sultanas, caramelized walnuts and cinnamon. Grows fruitier, with marmalade, berries and pink apples. Then brown sugar, in addition to some dusty barley within the background. Some cola sweet, polished wooden and butterscotch too. A reasonably trendy, rounded sherry profile, however undoubtedly inviting.
Mouth: begins candy and reasonably fruity once more, with loads of raisins, pink grapes and candied pear. Then oak units in, with ginger and black pepper, maybe somewhat too aggressive. A grassy aspect as properly. Liquorice and closely infused black tea ultimately.
End: lengthy and reasonably tough, with spicy oak, uncooked barley and cocoa.
As a nosing whisky, this nonetheless affords a variety of pleasure. On the palate it grew to become somewhat tough in latest batches, I’d say. The wooden will get to talk louder. With so many batches nonetheless out there, I’d go for one of many 5x or 6x batches. I purchased a pattern from Whiskysite.nl
