Christmas Cake & Dark Chocolate & Medjool Dates & Cinnamon 8 Year Old

Very easy drinking. Good to serve to someone who "doesn't like malt whisky" to show them what they are missing.
We're on our third bottle.

So the blind tasting evening began with the pouring of the Christmas Cake & Dark Chocolate & Medjool Dates & Cinnamon, 8 year old at 48%. I certainly did not know what to expect when ordering this but at $40 a bottle why not! Right? We are whisky tasting club. I expected some horrible mixture and as a few members commented afterwards that if this was an ‘open’ tasting where we saw the bottle and details it would have clouded members perception. Instead this was a surprise with most members scoring it through the eighties for an average score of 85. Only six members out of the 23 marked it mid to high seventies. Most members said they would buy it - blind - and especially when the price was revealed.

The overall commentary was that it was a very interesting, beautiful, fruity, sweet, confident , comfortable Speyside whisky.
Though the nose vacillated between good and poor, the taste overall was considered very long and sweet though for most the finish and C& fell off, in some cases quite quickly.
To be fair four members just did not like it with one member describing it as ‘horrible’ and weak overall.
The general consensus was that this was a surprise whisky and very acceptable and would like to see it in the cellar.

Absolute BLISS in a glass.
Very seasonal
Enjoy!

Subtle hints of the tastes and flavours in the description without interfering with the basic taste of the malt whisky taste . The latter being smooth, with a hint of sweetness. Nice aftertaste of Xmas flavours.

Dates and cinnamon not so much, deffo Christmas cake and hint of chocolate, with a nice heat afterwards.

Full bodied with lots of sweet fruit from the Sherry cask. Don't look for anything other than what it says it is. Not super complex but is the epitome of truth in advertising.

Disappointed (as were two guests) with the brevity of the first, interesting tastes, which were quickly swamped by a high, phenolic note that dominates and persists. Not to my taste, and would switch back west to the superb 'Seaweed and Aeons...' smokey complexity any day for this kind of anonymous bottling.

Flavour profile is described well and hits the spot. Very impressed with this dram and would purchase again.

Nice dram, warming and fruity with a hint of spice.

Loved this dram. Would be great on a cold winter night. Christmas pudding in a bottle.