Wednesday, May 2, 2018

[Review] AnCnoc 22 Year Old

It's Wednesday again and sadly I'm feeling a bit sick while writing this post. While I'm hoping this cold will be over and done with by the time Saturday afternoon comes hopefully I can take some focus away from sore throats and stuffy noses to talk about a whisky that I tried recently, a 22 Year Old AnCnoc.

AnCnoc is a line of distillery bottlings made by Knockdhu Distillery in the Scottish Highlands near Banffshire. Built in 1894, Knockdhu is owned by Inver House (owners of Balblair, Old Pulteney and Speyburn) and produced 1.7 million liters of malt whisky per year. Originally founded to produce malt for Haig's blended scotch (if you don't know who Haig was see my last blogpost on Lowland Whisky) nowadays they make a number of malt whiskies themselves from usual bourbon and sherry matured single malts and a couple of yearly peated malts such as Cutter and Rascan.

This single malt today is a 22 year old aged mostly in bourbon and then finished in oloroso sherry butts while being bottled at 46% ABV. It's a decently owned whisky from a distillery that I've had a few from in the past so let's see how they do with 20+ years of aging.
  • Colour: Light amber
  • Nose: Rich plums, vanilla, light citrus, light salt, cocoa, allspice, raisin, light leather
  • Taste: Rich plums, chocolate, vanilla cream, toffee, sea salt, sultana, light leather
  • Finish:Medium-long with salted red fruits and light nuts
Wow this is really well put together. Very lush and rich bodied despite the complexity being normal and not anything worth mentioning. Still a good deal for $175 at the SAQ when they had it but for the current price its just not complex enough for a buy but it is for sure worth a try.

84 pts

 

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