Auchroisk 22 Year Old Blackadder Raw Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Description

Whiskey: Auchroisk 22 Year Old Blackadder Raw Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Located between Rothes and Dufftown, Auchroisk was built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, to ensure a steady supply of malt whisky for their J&B blend. This 22 year old expression was released independently by Blackadder as part of their Raw Cask range.

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Size: 750ML

Proof: 126.8 (63.4%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: Auchroisk

Located between Rothes and Dufftown, Auchroisk was built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, to ensure a steady supply of malt whisky for their J&B blend. This 22 year old expression was released independently by Blackadder as part of their Raw Cask range.

Auchroisk 22 Year Old Blackadder Raw Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky Tasting Notes

Nose: Malty and fruity, the alcohol is briefly noticeable. Plums, quince and fresh malted barley , some rye and stronger cereal flavors, also a superficial and slightly artificial vanilla sweetness.

Palate: Very sweet, very strong and naturally very intense and alcoholic. Again, the plums, but with a slight acidity, resembles Japanese plum wine. Behind it malt, vanilla, dark chocolate and bitter oak.

Finish: Very long, again strong alcoholic. Malt beer, oak, coffee chocolate and espresso.

Distillery Information

The Auchroisk distillery was built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, to ensure a steady supply of malt whisky for their J&B blend. The land and springs, including the water source, Dories Well, were bought for 5million. Although launched as a blending malt, master blender Jim Milne declared the quality of the bourbon-matured whisky sound enough to be sold as single-malt; however, it was still missing something. Accordingly, the spirit was given a year in sherry casks, which produced a much fuller, and fundamentally, more complex flavour. Although not sold as Auchroisk (pronounced OH-thrusk) – the company deemed the name difficult to read – the distillerys own bottlings were first sold, up until 2001, under the name Singleton and in 1986 the first bottling, a twelve year-old, was released under this name.