A richly indulgent blended Scotch whisky from longtime favourite, Chivas. The Chivas Regal 18 Year Old was personally created by Master Blender Colin Scott, including over 20 single malts from around Scotland. Definitely no stranger to awards, this one. It even took home the International Wine & Spirit Competition 2014 Trophy for Blended Scotch Whisky! A supreme sipper, but also rather good for cocktails if you fancy giving them an upgrade.
The nose offers marmalade and malt, a hint of custard, coconut ice and nutmeg.
Winter spices and malt on the palate with barley, Seville orange marmalade and oak.
The finish is spiced and warming with oak and cinnamon.
As well as adding gifts to lucky MoM orders, #WhiskySanta is granting wishes on social media every day! Hit the button above and let them know what you'd like. It could be yours!
Below average - at best. Perhaps the worst 18 y/o I have ever tasted. Nose is promising: excellent grain, spicy oak & some sherry influence. First sip & it all changes with milk chocolate orange, spoiled by an unpleasant bitter / sour back note. Finish is short and returns to the sherry tones. OK, its 18 y/o hence the rounded depth which is good - but the bitterness is why I wont buy again - its simply not a good blend The artificial tango suntal colour is offputting. And why a miserley 40% when 46% would have helped this shine?
Firstly let me say I like this a lot. I think there is some quite old sherried malt in there. Secondly, I drink a wide range of whiskies of all styles from all parts of the world. I often end up with bottles of the less expensive malt whiskies with maybe 100mls left and I don't really want to drink it, so I have adopted a tactic of pouring the last remnants of these bottles into a decanter to mix them together. This creates a blended malt of mysterious provenance and it's fun to pour it for friends and listen to them trying to guess what it is. Thirdly, the contents of that decanter are very similar to the Chivas 18. Smooth, balanced, mildly sherried, a satisfying dram, easy to drink. Fourthly, what that tells me is that the Chivas 18 is about as good as a random mix of 12 year old malts with the odd touch of A'Bunadh thrown in. Compared to other, mainstream blended whiskies, this is excellent. But at £10 a bottle more than say The Glenlivet Nàdurra Oloroso cask strength? £7 more than Arran malt 14 yrs? Nah. I still like it though.
Great blend with great nose and taste. Leaves the 12YO far behind!
The best
Very nice dram.
