• Nose: 22 Palate: 23 Finish: 22 Balance: 23 Total: 90
  • Nose: Light, malty vanilla
  • Palate: Creamy vanilla and sea salt
  • Finish: Medium - Salty vanilla
  • Balance: Very smooth and well balanced. The color was exceedingly light; and there was almost no cask influence from the sherry butt.
  • Type: Single Malt
  • Age: 14
  • ABV: 57.5%
  • Distiller: Linkwood (Diageo) & North Star
  • Where made: Elgin SCOTLAND
  • Region: Speyside
  • Approximate Price: $105
  • Value: BEST

Tasted as Day 2 of the 2024 Saratoga Whiskey Club Advent Calendar. Every day is a new adventure with a blind tasting, where we each try to guess the country of origin, the type and age of the whisk(e)y, the ABV, and the type of barrel/cask used for maturation, followed by a reveal at 9PM. This whisky was fully-matured in a sherry butt. There were 588 total bottles.