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Bladnoch 2007 Cask Strength Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club. Lowlands, Scotland. ABV: 54.8%. Tasted at Whisky a Day HQ, $135 (bottle).
Colour: Clear apple juice.
Nose: Vanilla sponge cake. Honey slathered on hot buttered fresh white toast. Dried apricots.
Palate: This whisky tastes like I’m going to need another one…Allen’s strawberries and cream lollies, fresh raspberry Danishes, croissants with strawberry jam and lashings of butter. Damn my sweet tooth!
Finish: Medium to long finish, the rich jam notes linger in the middle of your tongue whilst the warmth from the cask strength tingles dance around your mouth.
Comments: Distilled in 2007 and bottled 13 years later, this Bladnoch 2007 Cask Strength is delightful. Sourced from a combination of first-fill american oak ex-bourbon barrels and first-fill ex-Oloroso sherry casks, it is the latter’s influence that undoubtedly brought all those delicious jammy notes. Another outstanding release from Bladnoch.