Part of a limited outturn of 5,100 bottles. This eight year-old is much sought. Hazelburn is distilled at the Springbank distillery and named for a nearby silent distillery. It is unpeated and triple distilled.
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The nose is sweet and fresh. There are notes of orchard fruits and cut hay, a little chocolate and something floral. The palate is sweet and crisp with notes of fresh barley and a floral character. Slightly nutty. The finish is gentle and quite long with a fresh character.
I've never had anything that tasted so young yet so old at the same time. Nose: Big bourbon note, oak, sweet tobacco, dry hay, grassy,cocoa butter, floral, poached pears, apple crumble, perfume, new make/spirity(but not in a bad way), hazel cut cream, natural caramel, wood sap, this is a good 20 min nose. Taste, sweet dry wood, malty syrup, roast cashews, acacia honey, very highland in character with the tobacco and hay. Finish very green, this is where you can taste the youth, dry, freshly mown grass, apple skins. Excellent craft presentation of a very rewarding single malt don't yet the age statement sour you there's clearly much older malt here dancing with the young, you wont be disappointed.
