Old Course Hotel 12 Years Old Speyside Malt

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 55 by Dave Broom and Arthur Motley.

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Tasting Notes

Dave Broom Nose Creamy and rounded if quite simple nose. Water brings out elderflower sweetness, but also a note akin to balloons. Palate Sweeter than the nose with cereal, oak, rubber and a confected sweetness. Thin and quite hot. Not quite knitted together. Finish Short, syrup, crisp oak. Comment The sweetness fails to mask a whisky that hasn’t matured. All rather flat and plain.

Arthur Motley Nose Bran, cereal husk, pear drops and daffodils. Freeze-dried raspberries and peach slices. Palate Oily texture which dries out and becomes astringent. Baked pears then dried flowers. Finish Dry and biscuity. Comment OK, but given that there are so many wonderful whiskies around, this gets lost.