anCnoc 1996
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Tasting Notes by WhiskyNotes
Apart from the 12yo and anCnoc 16yo, there’s always a vintage in the core range (around 14 years old).
anCnoc 1996 (46%, OB 2011)
Nose: clean but definitely more sherried than the 12yo or 16yo – especially more nutty notes (hints of peanut butter). There a dry and slightly musty side to it, but there’s still honey and garden fruits from the bourbon casks (nice red apples, peaches). Vanilla. Pollen. Over time it shows a little mocha and toffee. Quite assertive as well.
Mouth: sweet to start, then developing a unique fruitiness (pears, a little raspberry). Creamy mouthfeel. Slightly candied (lokum). Demarara sugar. Again a few nutty hints. Some fruit tea and soft spices.
Finish: quite long, drier with a spicy kick and citrus notes.
This is simply a well-made malt – the best of the current range in my opinion although the 12yo is better value for money. They may not cause a lot of fuss, but anCnoc makes high-quality no-nonsense whisky.
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galg wrote:
Ruben, summery? The heavy sherry and bouillon made it a winter dram for me (so much for winters in Israel, but hey. we got some rain).
WhiskyNotes wrote:
I see what you mean, it's full-flavoured but that doesn't make it a winter dram for me. It's more on garden fruits than dry fruits and it lacks spices to call it wintery. Sure it's sherried, but far from heavy sherry in my opinion.
galg wrote:
Well, it's not a sherry monster but it's intense. a nice dram I wouldn't mind to keep handy ;)
GJR71 wrote:
Ruben, For me it is due to the nuttiness more of a wintery dram, but hey, taste differs and we both seem to like it as our scores are almost the same. But I have a question for you : What do you mean by the colour = Chardonnay ? In my humble opinion Chardonnay isn't a colour, but either a grape or a type of wine, both of which can vary in colour (for exemple grape: unripe to overripe; the wine : young metal cask matured to old(er) oak cask matured, even the region defines the final colour of the wine) so as a description of a colour it is to me not very usefull. I'm allways struggling with the description of the colour, so what do you think about this discussion ?
WhiskyNotes wrote:
Yeah, sorry for that, but colours are a weak point of Connosr. You select it in a tiny bar with actual colour samples and then suddenly it is translated into a verbal description. Of course it is not Chardonnay, it's definitely darker than that.
On a side note, I don't care too much about the colour. It's not a quality measurement and it's not very useful in a review imho so I'd rather leave it out.
Connosr wrote:
@GJR71 & @WhiskyNotes this is a fair point and something we'll look to improve :)
GJR71 wrote:
Ah allright, didn't know that the colourdescription was added by Connosr, by selecting it from a "tiny" colourbar. Thought you where using this as an actual colour description, So forgive me my comment, I'm (quite) new here and while I'm using my own blog for my tasting notes, I haven't post it a note here yet.
WhiskyNotes wrote:
@GJR71 No problem, have a look at the review page to get an idea: http://www.connosr.com/reviews/write/ The fact that the colour bar is continuous adds to the difficulty of knowing what you're selecting exactly. Not the mention the basic problems of screen calibration and things like that.
@Connosr Thanks. I never mentioned it because it seems relatively harmless / unimportant to me.
galg wrote:
I agree the color bar needs a change, but with color additives and color saying very little about a dram, i dont really attribute much to it.
dbk wrote:
Very interesting review, Ruben. I quite like the anCnoc 12; based on this review and the one by @galg, I'll have to keep an eye out for this vintage.
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