SMWS 93.38 - Stirs the atavistic soul
Pull up to the bumper baby!
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Review by @Pierre
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- Brand: Glen Scotia
- Type: Scotch
- Region: Campbeltown
- ABV: 58.1%
Pull up to the bumper baby!
Nose: An awful lot going on here - this is not the most accessible bouquet I've come across but that's not to say I don't relish a challenge! There's an underlying sweetness with some burnt rubber. I have no idea where this whisky is from. Spice, sweetness, something medicinal but not an Islay medicine, more cough lozenge. The nose gives me few clues what to expect on the palate. Believe it or not I am enjoying this!
Palate: More focussed than the nose - I'm starting to understand some of what I've been smelling. Menthol or aniseed with some charcoal smoke wafting around, a little curry spice and pepper wrapped up in a candy coating. Nice. I think. Actually yes - very nice.
Finish: Long- very long. Aniseed then some dark ale or stout followed by curried cough sweets and at last a wisp of smoke.
Balance: I'm not sure what needs to be balanced with what, this isn't that sort of whisky. This is a rollercoaster of smells and flavours, wait a minute... not a rollercoaster its like the dodgems!
Bumpy, exhilerating, fun, confusing - BUMP - what just happened? Who hit me?
I recently took my four year old son on the dodgems for the first time, he loved it, he was scared and excited at the same time. When we finished he wanted to have another go straight away. I know how he feels.
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Nice review @Piero. You're not the first to find the Glen Scotia expressions strange... See the review of the 14 year-old 1991 here, for instance: www.maltmadness.com/whisky/glen-scotia.html
I'm curious, though: as a Québec resident, how did you get to sample an SMWS bottling? I live in Ontario and would sure love to join the SMWS, but it doesn't seem to be possible. Am I missing something?