Fettercairn 50 Year Old

Fettercairn 50 Year Old

• Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
• Distillery Bottling

70cl / 47.9%

Firstly, Long-aged, elegant and very carefully selected. This single cask release from Fettercairn. Launched in 2018 to celebrate the revitalisation of the distillery’s on-going whisky range. Is an impressive whisky. Matured for 50 years in an American white oak ex-bourbon cask and then finished for a few years in a tawny port pipe. This combines elegant old whisky with a fresh kick of berry fruit, all without becoming unbalanced.

Meanwhile, Colour: Dark gold. Nose: an extremely easy and elegant mix of leafy tobacco, mint leaf, forest mulch, fragrant waxes, metal polish and things like caraway and citronella. Wee hints of beef stock, mushrooms, old school textbooks, orange oils and shoe polish as well. Typical old style, well-aged Highland malt whisky. You can’t help but be charmed by this style and profile.

Mouth: the perfect strength and a wonderful delivery, all on roasted hazelnuts, praline, waxes, dried dark fruits such as raisins, some plum wine, strawberry tobacco and herbal extracts. Continues this leafy, minty theme while also displaying some rather resinous aspects, soft oily qualities and denser hints of black truffle, hessian and coal dust. Finish: good length, all on button mushrooms, dried herbs, hints of milk chocolate, green and various fruit teas and pithy citrus notes. Comments: An excellent and pretty textbook old highlander. I doubt many of today’s distillates will possess this kind of character when they are of similar age.