Diageo's Distillers Edition collection features some of the brand's prominent distilleries. They are made by taking a core bottling from the distillery featured as the base and giving it a secondary fortified wine maturation. For the second maturation, bespoke barrels are created with recharred American oak bodies and charred cask heads made from new American oak. These casks are filled with the fortified wine for a month and then dumped. Then the core offering from one distillation year rests for up to six month. This bottling is made with Cragganmore 12 Year distilled in 2008 and the wine here is port.
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Purchased as part of the 2020 Limited Spirit release. An enjoyable dram, expectedly reminiscent of a slightly peated Speyside, but the port finish is nearly indiscernible. Perhaps not worth the cost.
Nose: poached pears, Xmas pudding, brandy, figs, vanilla Pallet: spice, ginger, port, Xmas cake, malt loaf, grapefruit Finish: bitter, berries, fruits, opening to cream
Non-Peet, sweet Scotch. Caramel, vanilla, some green apple. Aged in whiskey barrels and then port barrels.
Green apple jolly rancher nose. Crisp and tart. Floral flavor
Very sweet on the aroma. Tasted great
Same style and price bracket, best rated first.
