Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year

About: This is a non-chill filtered cask strength (59.7% abv) scotch whisky.

Year sampled: 2009

Color: Golden straw

Nose: Strawberry, peaches, sherry, straw, almond extract

Palate: VERY full and chewwwwwyyyyy. Pleasant ginger spice bite with honey; apricot. Unexpected smoothness.

Finish: Long top of tongue pleasant burn. Sweet with ginger.

Comments: Wow. The best Glenlivet offering I've had. Possibly a little too sweet. (Incidentally, I wrote tasting notes twice on seperate occasions and they are nearly identical.)

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