Miltonduff 8 Year Old 1999 Daily Dram

Miltonduff is one of the old distilleries, operational since 1824 (or even before that, albeit illegaly). It is one of the malts that gives body and character to blends like Ballantine's, Teacher's, Old Smuggler and Chivas Regal. But today we will try an independent bottling from Daily Dram. They dubbed this 8 Year Old ‘Mille Tonnes d'Oeufs’ (a thousand tons of eggs), a bit tongue-in-cheek.

The nose is very aromatic, because upon pouring the room fills up with apple and pear juice, loads of vanilla, a touch of mint and some citrus. Not much else, though. This is a non-complex, but very fresh nose.

More of the same on the palate, but with that spicy little something extra in the guise of pepper and paprika. The citrus fruit easily overpowers the white orchard fruit. Oranges are in the lead.

The finish, which is medium long, even turns a tad sharp from the spices, making the fruit disappear.

A spring whisky with a spicy edge, but having said that, not much is going on. This is, by the way, the youngest Mildtonduff I have tried so far.

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