Pittyvaich 12 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 27 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Big brutal sherry. Winey. Quite beefy. Marmite. Overpowering sherrywood. Tobacco. Palate Toffee but with rancid butter notes. Cardboard. No subtlety in that sherry first-fill. Where has the malt gone? Finish Long but bitter. Smoky burnt wood. Comment You need to be sherry-mad to love this. Water releases more pleasant fruitcake notes on the nose but more harshness on the palate.

Dave Broom Nose The colour suggests European oak and the nose is a classic dry amontillado: resin, clove, savoury notes-roasted almond, flamed orange peel, smoked tea, some toffee. Palate Heavy sherry flavours, almond especially. A slightly oily but tannic feel. There's perfumed smoke but the spirit is beefed up by heavy oak flavours. Finish Smoked cheese. Comment The richest by far, but all of it wood-driven.