Bottle - Cask # G8.3, Surprise me...
Cask No. G8.3, Surprise me...
G8.3
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Cask No. G8.3 Sweet, fruity & mellow

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Even at this age the spirit is still spirited; the aroma is of golden syrup and toffee popcorn, with juicy green apples and pears behind; very slightly woody and dusty: ‘a cupboard shelf covered in Fablon’. The taste is sweet and sour - kiwi fruits, lime cordial, Seville orange, sour cherry, stewed tea – with a short finish. Reduced, the aroma initially becomes more oaky (a musty sea chest, a brush shop), then sweeterlemon puffs, lemon meringue pie. A soft mouthfeel; a sweetish start (‘white jelly babies’), then bitter lemon, with a very short finish. This large grain distillery near Alloa, built 1806, closed in 1993

Age 23
Date Distilled June 1989
Cask Type Refill hogshead
Region Lowland
Outturn 250 bottles
ABV 59 %