Bartels kindly sent all of the #MiniTasting crew including myself a sample of this whisky.
I am of the understanding this malt blend is made up of three Edrington malts, think back seventeen years to what they owned and you may get a rough idea of what may be in there. It is from a single cask, natural colour, non-chill filtered and cask strength. But there are only fifty bottles available!
So when all is said and done, its quite an interesting cask of whisky...
Colour
Dark polished copper
Nose
Orange, dunnage warehouse, honeyed malt, little bit of chocolate, ginger and polished oak, toffee. This is not a "sherry bomb" though, its still quite fresh - with green fruits. It does indicate there is some older stuff in there though.
Palate
Quite spicy, citrus - sweet lemon, malty biscuits, bitter chocolate, coffee. Quite creamy, nutty, stewed fruits - orange, apple, pear. Getting notes from both ex sherry and ex bourbon casks on this.
Finish
Medium - ish in length. Milk chocolate turning to dark chocolate, a little bit of citrus again, grapefruit.
Overall
As blends go its really quite nice. I could sit and enjoy this with out thinking about it too much. There is some complexity to it and the flavours blend together nicely. I don't think it will blow your socks off but if you like a nice blend, go for it.
Then the thing that wins this over - the price, £36 for this! You really can not go wrong at that price.
Score
I am scoring this whisky and taking the price into consideration here:
8.5 out of B
But on this one given the price, 100% ignore my opinion and find out for yourself!
If you are in the market for a bottle, have a look on Bartels website, where (at the time of writing) there are 23 bottles left.
https://www.bartelswhisky.com/shop/blended-scotch-whisky-17yo/
:)
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