Tasting 1 Old Fettercairn before Christmas

Time to try just one Fettercairn for once. This is a 10yo bottled at the unusual strength of 52.5% without being a CS.




















Old Fettercairn 10yo 1993 52.5% OB

I know that Whyte & MacKay released a blend at 52.5% back in the days, perhaps they tried to make a bit of a uniques standard strength. If so, they were a bit before their time. The color on this one is dark amber. It smells of sweet toffee, caramel, sawdust, nutty, bitter, grape soda, oaky, perfumy, raisins, olives, lacquer, paint, earthy. The taste is sweet, cinnamon, caramel, honey, earthy, milk chocolate, toffee, a dessert whisky of übersweet proportions! Develops on burnt sugar, toffee, some malty notes in the background, but other than that its sweet upon sweet in this one. Could this be a whisky for cognac or rum-lovers?

For sweet-tooths: 6.5



Next tasting: Now taking a small break, and will be back after Christmas where I'll be doing several verticals on 4 distilleries, which I consider some of the best there is.