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Longrow RED Fresh port casks

Browned butter

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@AlexswedenReview by @Alexsweden

4th Jun 2015

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  • Nose
    23
  • Taste
    22
  • Finish
    23
  • Balance
    24
  • Overall
    92

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Every year, there is a longrow bottling called "RED". It is finished in a new type of wine cask each year and bottled at cask strength. The current expression has been aged in port casks for 11 years.

Coming from springbank I expected the "RED" to be good. It was not good, it was excellent!

Nose

The very first whiff greeted me with Sweet port wine, leather and salted pistachios. It actually reminds me a little bit of A'Bunadh 47. There also was a specific note that i found a tad "off". something that I've found in the Glenmorangie Lasanta aswell. It's like the smell of a chewed licorice bubblegum. It is not off-putting but I'd rather see that it wasn't there. It seems to have gone away with time. When it is just poured it also has a "sparkling" quality like a champagne or perhaps a rosé wine. Letting the spirit settle and putting my nose to it again it is sweet, salty and smoky.

Salted caramelized nuts, licorice, cedar Wood, and strangely enough a smell of sand. A very slight hint of varnish. Grass and Tobacco. The peat smoke is there but definitely takes the backseat to the sweet and salty notes. It is a really vivid and dynamic nose.

Adding water really ups the sweetness and increases the buttery nuttiness. A kind of charred nuttiness with a browned butter aroma.

Palate

The palate is relatively drying but still big and oily. Warming. Big caramel and mild peat smoke rolls over the tongue. The sweetness is present with notes of cherries and cranberries. The nuts with butter are definitely here and they are accompanied by black charcoal. It really has a "big" mouthfeel!

Finish

Strawberries, lingonberries, butter and a bit of spice. Peppery cinnamon. A slight hint of Bonfire. The sand comes back in the finish and everything is underlined by a mild lingering peat smoke. Adding water takes away some of the Power in the finish. Smoke and roasted nuts.

This offering really has a bit of everything. Imagine a basket full of red berries and fruit at the beach during a Bonfire.

Quite Amazing stuff. Grab it Before it's gone!

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1 comments

@Alexsweden
Alexsweden commented

I just realised I made a typo. It isn't "finished" in a special cask, it is matured in a special cask. Port casks for this particular expression.

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