Arran
Arran The Bothy 'Quarter Cask' Batch 1 55.7%
First Fill Bourbon, finished for 18 months in American oak quarter casks.
Tasted: Oct 2015
Very heavy on the oak, with the aromas reminding me of a grain whisky. A serious multitude of spicy, herbal dried fruit and grippy, almost French oak tannins. Loads of 'Bourbony' oak comes through and the herbal notes become quite rye-like and hints of gooseberry, greengage, lemon biscuits and earthy notes appear.
The palate initially shows the slightly green fruits and herbal notes with hints of tropical apricot and pineapple balancing. The oak begins quite subtly but its building and encroaching pretty fast! Wow, what a middle. Intense alcohol fueled dried fruit and biting grainy spirit notes and citrus. However the oak and gentle honey is buffering. Long and still very citric with a touch of herbal-peat and fragrant barley coming through to be joined by hints of acacia and violet.
A drop of water makes the nose rounder and softer. There is more vanilla but again the gritty, spicy French-esque tannins counter and the green fruit notes are still there. The palate is like the nose, softer with more vanilla showing. Obviously less intense but the subtler shades of vanilla and toffee have been released - brioche and toasted oak along with some creamy malt and milk chocolate notes.
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