Description
A 14-year-old Deanston from a refill bourbon barrel. I get the feeling there’s growing interest in this distillery, and maybe Deanston is due its moment in the sun?
The nose is fruity on first pouring (tangerine, pear juice, peach gummies) then settles down with hoppy ales, fresh baguette, sweet ciceley, woodruff and ferns. There are little touches of flinty minerality, lemon, rose petals, furniture wax and barley sugar. It’s very subtle and beautiful.
The palate has tinned pears, grapefruit syrup, aniseed (almost cough candy) and hops. It’s an appealing combination of barley and breadiness with clean and zesty fruitiness. It almost feels refreshing and palate-cleansing, with a lovely sweeter touch of honey and fruit syrup in the aftertaste.
This is one of those whiskies that feels very honest and close to the barley, with a sort of easy freshness and delicacy.The barrel produced 234 bottles at 52.6%
