• Nose: 23 Palate: 23 Finish: 23 Balance: 24 Total: 93
  • Nose: Vanilla with a hint of green apples, musty dirt
  • Palate: Vanilla, rum coconut, marshmallows, hints of dunnage dirt
  • Finish: Medium - Sugary sweet
  • Balance: In a blind tasting, I would have guessed that this was a bourbon
  • Type: Single Grain
  • Age: 46
  • ABV: 50.3%
  • Distiller: Carsebridge (Bottled by Douglas Laing)
  • Where made: Alloa, Clackmannashire SCOTLAND
  • Region: Lowlands
  • Approximate Price: $671
  • Value: POOR

Tasted at Saratoga Whiskey Club Tasting # 193: Scotland A to Z Part VII. Carsebridge was a grain distillery that closed in 1983. This single-cask whisky was distilled in October 1976 (The Year of the Dragon), matured in a refill hogshead, and bottled in August 2023 by independent bottler Douglas Laing in commemoration of the Wood Dragon. There were only 156 bottles.