Olfato: um pouco metálico, adocicado, uvas passas, frutos secos, cereais torrados, floral, leve amadeirado, baunilha, caramelo, mel, noz moscada, levemente cítrico de laranjas, maçãs verdes, banana verde, pêssegos em caldas e pouca percepção de álcool. Notas de ambos os barris são perceptíveis. Com água, os aromas não se modificaram muito, preservando suas principais características, porém de forma abrandada e reduzindo o aroma metálico. Paladar: dulçor, amargor, calor do álcool, frutos secos, laranjas, leve amadeirado, metálico e muito pouco cremoso. Há uma boa correspondência entre olfato e paladar, no entanto, neste último, este whisky mostra mais a sua jovialidade e rebeldia. Com água, o álcool foi contido e as notas adocicadas mais evidenciadas, porém com muito menos intensidade. Finalização: média para curta, com calor do álcool e amargor mais presentes. No retrogosto, um leve amadeirado é presente, seguido de um pouco de frutos secos. Impressões gerais: um whisky com bom preço, com algumas características palatáveis interessantes mas bastante desequilibrado. O álcool e o metálico realmente me incomodaram um pouco, obscurecendo as outras características positivas deste whisky. Com adição de água é possível reduzir um pouco as características negativas deste whisky, no entanto, caso você “erre na mão”, ele poderá ficar muito aguado e sem potência, uma vez que ele, em sua forma original, possui apenas 40% ABV.
About this bottle
The Glenrothes Robur Reserve is Travel Retail Exclusive bottling from the Speyside distillery, aged in American oak with a large portion aged in first-fill ex-oloroso sherry oak casks. The name "Robur" comes from the Latin name of Spanish or European oak: Quercus robur. It's been bottled at 40% ABV.
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I picked up this bottle back in September 2016 coming back to the US from Canada. It was around $60 for 1L, and came highly recommended by an elderly employee with a Scottish accent. I should’ve known better! Affordable (and most unaffordable) travel retail exclusives are disappointing, as a rule of thumb, and recommendations by people with Scottish accents do not override this. At least my wife liked it. We finished the bottle because she drank most of it. She’s a Macallan fan, and actually preferred the Robur cask to Macallan 12. I definitely prefer Macallan, but wouldn’t call myself a fan of Macallan. WHAT THE HELL IS A ROBUR? It’s Latin for Oloroso sherry, apparently. Forced exoticism, another clue for a disappointing dram. This is NAS and 40% ABV. Another clue. NOSE: Underdeveloped Oloroso. Dark berries, but not too sweet. Cedar. Maybe a little vanilla. Something’s a little off, like sourdough. Not a fan. PALATE: Sourdough pastry is actually more pleasant in the mouth than on the nose. Nutmeg wallop. Dry prune juice. Watery mouthfeel. FINISH: Short and unremarkable. Same flavors from the palate, dissipating quickly. Maybe vanilla and toffee giving a late introduction. VERDICT: The sourdough aspect was the most interesting for me. Aside from that, this is a watered down generic Speyside that I would skip next time. 74/100.
Fail! Honey and walnut on the nose. Heather on the palate. Flat and weak. One-dimensional. Consider it a ripoff even if you're offered it for free.
When first open you smell some sort of fruit smell. Banana and honey. Very good taste. Not ideal for me, but very good taste.
N: édes, floral, nagyon kellemes, elsőre cseresznyés P: édes, gyümölcsös A: itt kezd el csípni, pedig csak 40%
Oxidized fruit, fermented apples, mellow, warming but not hot, a lot of brandy notes
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