Yes, the Speyside Distillery, not excactly known for their single malts, I've only had a few and they left little desire to try more. Because of that (mainly), these three whiskies have been sitting on my shelves forever since, and since there is very little obtainable single malts from this distillery I'll just throw a small session with these ones.
Drumguish NAS 40% OB
Drumguish is a young version of Speyside, kind of like the Dunglass botlings from Littlemill. Or even the Glen Deveron from Macduff. Another not-that-well-reputated-distillery that releases bottlings under different names are Loch Lomond. Loch Lomond, Speyside, Littlemill... perhaps something to keep in mind? So, a watered down youngster, lets try. The color is golden, surely adjusted with caramel. It smells peppery and burnt, spirity. Some dusty and dry stuff going on. The taste is light, sweet, bananas and pears, sweet, not unpleasant, just lacking any sense of complexity. No aftertaste or finish is found in this one.
I wouldn't believe it, but its actually quite nice as an aperitif: 5
Dancing Stag/Speyside 17yo 1992-2009 46% Robert Graham
Robert Graham is an online retailer, I think I've only tried one whisky bottles for him before. That was a great Allt-A-Bhainne. So my hopes are up a bit for this one. The color is greyish amber, a "dirty" color I often find in fino-sherried whiskies. It smells dry, bitter, dusty, lime juice, extremely bitter, no doubt in my mind this is a whisky from a fino cask. The taste is sweet, oaky, peppery, not far from the Drumguish, light and clean. Gone in seconds. Aperitif style. No aftertaste.
No need to change the score: 5
Speyside 15yo 1993-2009 61.7% Malts of Scotland cask#636
A CS Speyside then, perhaps this will prove to be more than a light-weighter. From a sherry butt. brown-grey color. I have always seen MOS as a rather high-end bottler, so for them to bottle a young Speyside seems a bit weird, but perhaps they have discovered a great cask. It smells limes, grapes, papaya, bitter, rubber, peppery, phenolic, old newspapers, herbs, salt water, great stuff. The taste is light, sweet, peppery, rum-like, sweets upon sweets. Some water is needed here I think. Now it becomes lighter, sweetr, marzipan, vanilla. The finish is peppery and very long, almost numbs the tongue.
One for nosing only, unless you're into rum, then please enjoy: 4.5
Next tasting: Clynelish Distillery
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