| #300 Stronachie Specially Selected 12 YO Single Malt Scotch (Perthshire) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $4500 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bottler | Official Bottling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 43% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Misc: | This is a fairly unique critter, a single malt that emulates (or attempts to reproduce) another, lost single malt. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 330: Number 300: Stronachie (15-DEC-2008) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | 299 whiskeys and 4 years ago, I tried the first great whisky of this journey. Now I had all sorts of odd ideas for ways to celebrate the big three double aught, but it really came down to one thing. This had a neat bottle. Honestly, I had thought of saving  100 Pipers because it's numerically similar, but that seemed rather silly. Then I was going to grab a sibling of either Num 100 Grouse or Num 200 Ardbeg, but neither was easily available. And so it came down to raw luck. The 300th whisky is, instead, a nice 12 year old that I picked up from a nice local liquor store when I ran out of Scotch. Seems fitting enough. Slainte! | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | This is a cool bottle. Other Scotches with crappy bottles, take note. This is very, very cool. Classic. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | Bit raw and feity. Light grain comes first but give it a moment and there's a big barrel of heather below that. Light honey, very dry overall. Lots of promises. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | Nice delivery and pleasantly different than most other whiskies I've had. I saw Perthshire and worried it wouldn't have much character, but if this is lacking anything, it isn't character. Young, but the bite is so far back among the flavors that it works well as a supporting element. Very dry and lots of hearty grain and oak up front. Builds well, honey and more heather, just immensely chewy and dense, I feel like I could slap some pastrami on this and have a sandwich. Loads of wood at the back and somehow it finds more grain flavor to take us to the finish line. Endless finish, great all around. Mid 80s. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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