Linkwood 12 Year Old - Flora and Fauna 70cl Whisky

Name: Linkwood 12 Year Old - Flora and Fauna
Brand: Linkwood
SKU: 2465
Price: 59.49 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)

Scotland • 70cl • 43%

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Customer Rating

“Nose: Pine nuts, barley sugars (the sweets), mint jelly (like you get with lamb), oak leafs green from the tree Taste: Crystal clean yummy barley, walnuts, apple and pear cores, almonds. Finish: Dry white wine, grape skins, apricot A stunner, quite dear for a 12 year old but worth every penny if your a Speyside fan. Wonderful stuff.”

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Style

Single Malt

RegionSpeyside Whisky

Country

Scotland

Distillery/BrandLinkwood Whisky

Age12 Year Old Whisky

Linkwood 12 Year Old - Flora and Fauna

The Flora and Fauna series release from Linkwood, featuring a swan on the label in honour of the swans who live by adjacent reservoir. This is the only official bottling from the distillery, as almost all of production is destined for the blending houses, who highly value its character.

Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt

Nose

Quite green, thick. Herbal, nutty, oily. Almond.

Palate

Medium, oily. Honey, pine oil. Malt, almond.

Finish

Quite long, dry, touch of anise.

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Allergy Information

This product does not contain any notifiable allergens

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Customer Rating

4.5

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Nose — Herbal. Pine nuts. Lukewarm black tea with lemon. Palate — Oily and waxy. Quite sweet and spicy. Herbal. Apple and rosemary. Cloves. Finish — Long lasting, dry and malty. Fried muesli.

Pavel Smirnov Jan 5, 2025

Speyside classic

Nothing blatant or clumsy about this. Just excellent spirit from good casks. A perfect summer malt .

Steven Riley Sep 23, 2021

Classic speyside

This bottling is one I return to regularly as a summer malt. Wonderfully balanced between casks and distillate. Takes water well.

Master of Malt Customer Sep 23, 2021

Marvellous, summery malt

Linkwood has a stellar reputation but is largely unknown in the whisky world with most of it destined for JW blends, most notably the excellent JW Green Label. This is the only official Diageo bottling and as apparently been discontinued. I'm frankly mystified why it doesn't have a regular bottling. Yes the Speyside malt category is overcrowded but there is enough honest complexity here to set it aside from its rivals. Any caramel colourant is kept to a minimum (I don't think there even is any but who really knows), a decent ABV of 43% and wonderful fresh notes of cut grass, hay, slight citrus, green apple and oil. Yes its an oily one and cloys the mouth in very pleasant way. You see a lot of Linkwood in the Independent Bottling market and I would definitely seek a bottle out from this avenue but I do think a more pronounced official bottling is long overdue. Come on Diageo, make it happen :) Cheers

Kevin Bartlett May 17, 2021

Sour and bitter, not to my personal taste

Very pale in the glass, apple juice in tinge, the nose is fresh. Banana and mango mixes with a deep nuttiness. A little herbal too, almost grassy. Has a sour, sherbetty note as well. Certainly has legs, clings to the glass, very viscous. In the mouth it's fruity, a little bitter and sour - in fact extremely sour. Feels a little salty too. Sour apple sweets, tart cooking apple - no sweetness whatsoever. The finish stays sour, makes you screw your nose up. The nutty note returns with herbal tea. I can see why they say this is a Marmite malt and divides opinion. Some people love it purely for the sourness and freshness, but this one is not for me at all.

Steven Leicester May 11, 2021