Highland Debutante
Wolfburn was the first of a whole new generation Scottish craft distillers to fire up her stills. Thus it is only natural that she arrives first at the debutante ball. After a pricy inaugural release for the collectors, we were quickly spoiled with a NAS release for the layman, and another one, and another one,… Hell they seem to be spewing out bottles faster than you can say “Thurso”.
All very fine, but there is only one question that needs to be answered: is it any good? According to most respected whisky authors, it most certainly is. Time to check if truth was spoken.
Description: official release, marketed as a NAS, but distilled in 2013 and bottled in 2016 at 46%.
Nose: like a damp sea cave: a shy, salty, mineral concoction of wet limestone. A soft alcoholic touch with notes of cereal, green apple and printer cartridge ink.
Mouth: light oily body, with a palate that is slightly sharp but soon turns sweet. Traces of pepper, (peat?) smoke, almonds, pear juice, just a stray note of mescal and raw cod.
Finish: salty but clean, vanilla, and rubbing alcohol.
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