Aberlour 21 Years Old Tasting notes and reviews
Aberlour 21 Years Old
- Brand
- Aberlour
- Expression
- 21 Years Old
- Type
- Scotch Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Age
- 21 years old
- Abv
- 43.00%
- Produced at
- Aberlour Distillery
- Region
- Speyside
- Website
- www.aberlour.com
- Availability
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Aberlour 21 Year Old Centenary Ceramic | £650.00 |
Michael Jackson
80- Nose
- Sherry, oak, polished leather.
- Palate
- Firm, smooth, lightly creamy. Packed with lively flavours: malt, cookies, fruit, mint.
- Finish
- Spicy, rooty, dry, very long.
- Comment
- Great to see this once-reticent distillery releasing some really expressive bottlings.
Jim Murray
70- Nose
- A first class aroma of honey and sliced almonds. Very sweet for the age with the oak being surprisingly subdued, perhaps by the delicate sherry/apricot fruitiness.
- Palate
- Much drier from the start with the oak steaming in. Fills out in mouth well, with an almost metallic hardness to the malt-honey sweetness, softened only by an oily tang.
- Finish
- Very hard and quite grainy with the malt lengthening out. Perhaps just slightly off key.
- Comment
- 11 years ago I tasted some 10 Years Old Aberlour and wasn't too impressed. It has matured through well but not all the kinks have been ironed out, especially towards the finish.
Whisky Magazine Issue 6
Isaly tasting - Travels in Speyside & Kentucky - Talisker - Bourbon uncovered.
Published October 1999.
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