Code
Distillery
Glenfarclas
Name
Merriment And Whisky
Producer
SMWS
Region
Speyside
Age
13 years
ABV
58.9%
Bottler Type
Independent
Category
Scotch
Flavor Profile
Ripe Fruits & Honey
The whisky presents a rich bouquet of sweet sawdust, blackberry pie, toasted ciabatta, and orange oil-infused sugar. With water, additional notes of dalgona coffee, cherry pie filling, and wafer biscuits emerge.
It opens with muddled orange segments and almond paste, followed by blueberries and apple mint that develop across the mid-palate.
The finish is dominated by blackcurrant jam with melon notes, punctuated by pockets of evaporated milk and candied orange.
Brandy in disguise, the nose was rich in sweet sawdust, blackberry pie, toasted ciabatta and orange oil-infused sugar. The palate opened with muddled orange segments and almond paste, with blueberries and apple mint to follow. Water presented dalgona coffee on the nose, plus cherry pie filling and wafer biscuits. The finish was a river of blackcurrant jam sailed on by melon yachts chasing pockets of evaporated milk and shoals of candied orange. After nine years in an ex-bourbon barrel, we transferred this to a first fill American oak oloroso hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.