William Grant's Ghosted Reserve 26 Year Old is a blended malt Scotch whisky featuring whisky from two closed distilleries - Ladyburn and Inverleven. Both distilleries have been silent for quite a while indeed, with Inverleven being mothballed in 1991 and Ladyburn being closed back in 1975, so seeing their spirit released is always pretty awesome - seeing released together in a blended malt adds yet more intrigue!
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Cashew nuts and toffee with hints of dark chocolate. Fresh orange peel and cinnamon. Freshly baked bread and cereal notes come through later.
Spices immediately come to the fore - cinnamon, vanilla pods and pepper. Then lots more orange peel, along with other tropical fruits including pineapple and papaya. Warm toffee and raisin notes underpin the proceedings.
Warm and long, moving away from the spice character and towards the dark chocolate - reminiscent of sticky toffee pudding. Tasty.
A well-balanced blended malt and a rich, oily, dessert-like dram.
