White Horse

Nose: Mild malt and cereal aromas wrapped in grain whisky. Some ultra light sweet orchard fruit notes and with time a few brown sugar/syrup aromas arise that are supported by a bat-squeak of ashen smoke. After a long time some light citrus is noticed. [Interestingly, the dry-glass aroma is quite leathery and smoky]. Palate: A sweet arrival with dilute barley sugar and overcooked caramel sauce drizzled over thin porridge. The merest hint of dusty malt, a faint echo of cardboardy ash and a dusting of white pepper. There is no development. Finish: Short and fast, leaving a sweetish aftertaste from the grain whisky. The nose is not unpleasant at all, but it is very thin and soft. It seemed to me like a potentially good nose that has been over-diluted. You keep nosing it more and more deeply in the hope that something exciting will appear, but it always seems just out of reach. The palate is simplistic, fast and again tastes very much like the blend contains too much grain whisky in relation to malt, although both components are of good quality. I remember drinking White Horse back in the day but I've not seen it on the local shelves for a long time now. This bottle from which I'm tasting is a 750ml US specimen and was obtained from a supplier who has contacts in the TRE grey-market. I bought it for old time's sake and to refresh my memory, but I would not bother again. Like Teacher's, this was once a hefty and characterful blended scotch that is now only a shadow of its former self. It is, however, benign and very easy to drink and would probably suit someone who is looking for an extremely mild and friendly sipping blend. "Adequate" : 70/100 (2 stars)

- Diageo - Desenvolvido no século 19 por James Logan Mackie e seu sobrinho, Peter Jeffrey Mackie, que eram proprietários da Lagavulin - Maltes: Lagavulin, Talisker, Craigellachie, Glen Elgin e Linkwood - Um dos whiskies favoritos de Vinicius de Moraes - Origem do nome “o cão engarrafado” - Um dos primeiros escoceses a entrar no mercado nacional Olfato: leve defumado e torrado de barril recauchutado, adocicado de açúcar branco, baunilha, leve floral, frutado de pêras, whisky de grãos, forte percepção de óleo de máquinas e um pouco do calor do álcool. Paladar: doce, simples, frutado, leve baunilha, leve amargor, cereais tostados, leve amanteigado, leve defumado, e calor do álcool. Finalização: curta, com retrogosto doce, defumado e com bastante calor do álcool. Impressões gerais: whisky para tomar com refrigerante ou energético, para quem gosta dessa mistura em baladas. Não recomendado para beber com gelo ou, tampouco, puro. Para coquetéis existem opções melhores no mercado.

Bought a 1.75 L bottle of this today for $30. My last purchase of it was 3-4 years ago. White Horse has been around for decades and has had the reputation of a hefty dose of malt (50%) in the blend and a fairly strong backbone of peat smoke--say on par with Teachers Highland Cream. I would say that it is a very solid blend with malt, honey, and biscuit notes. However, if you are seeking heavy peat you may be disappointed. There is much less peat in this bottle than my last purchase a few years ago. To me that's not absolutely a bad thing. It is still a very well balanced and VERY affordable blend suitable as a "jug" Scotch for easy sipping or mixing. I am simply saying the blend seems to have evolved over the years. Perhaps this was for economy; or, perhaps it was for evolving modern tastes.

[Valor convertido de BRL para USD] White Horse me iludiu por um tempo, até eu começar a enjoar bastante do seu gosto, no paladar ele queima um pouco e traz umas notas enjoativas de fermentado com turfa EXTREMA (tanto que é um whisky que combina muito bem com um charuto). Eu não acredito ser o maior fã dos blendeds, por conta dessa característica ativa do maltado, mas bebi outro blended scotch e achei leve e suave, mas o White Horse é pesado, e tem whiskies mais baratos que são claramente melhores. Finalização curta e grossa, nada a oferecer.

White Horse Scotch was a quality blended Scotch whiskey. It now has no Lagavulin listed on the label. White Horse is 40% malt from Speyside malts. The nose consists of spices, caramel, and sandalwood. Entry is creamy with a palate of toffee, and spice. The finish ends with sandalwood and citrus. I miss the peat from Lagavulin. There is no peat, smoke, heather, or honey. It is a sad day Diageo took the Scotch flavors out of this Scotch blend. Blindfolded I would have thought this was a lower-level Irish Whisky

Not a lot of cheap blends are as good as this. Consisent year to year, full, sweet, just a hint of smoke. Not watery like most similar blends are. Really great bang for buck. Reccomend for making Penicillin cocktails. If you’re in America and can’t find peaty scotch on a budget my best advice is to buy a $30 smoke gun on amazon and smoke a glass of this. That won’t make it into Lagavulin but it will get much closer than you'd expect.