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Dufftown
Whisky: Dufftown 1982-2012
Serie: Director's Cut
Age: 30 years
Type: Single malt
   
Distilled: 03-1982
Bottled: 03-2012
Cask Type: Sherry Butt
Cask #: 8232
Bottles: 189
Strength: 51.7%
   
Distillery: Dufftown Distillery
Bottler: Douglas Laing (pre May 2013)
Country: Scotland: Speyside
   
 
Date: 11-03-2013
Nose: Chocolate mousse, a little leather, hint of citrus, ceder wood.
Flavour: Dark red cherries, chocolate, wood, leather, dark sherry, dried apricot, gravy. Has a long finish of bitter chocolate and sherry.
Body: Thick, round, slightly granular, greasy, chewy. Finishes beautiful dry and powerful for quite a long time.
Comments: Enormously powerful so the comfy chair isn't a luxury.
Rating: ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ +++- ---- (8.75)