![]() ![]() ![]() Comments: Daftmill continue to have very impressive sherry casks, even if the results don't always feel as immediately 'Daftmilly' as the bourbons. Finish: long, warming and gingery with wood spices, treacle, brown bread and more impressions of walnuts and stewed dark fruits. Still some classical sultanas and walnuts too. With water: excellent development with some lovely herbal complexity - tarragon and fennel seed - with more bitter chocolate, coffee and black pepper warmth. Mouth: up front notes of camphor, hazelnut puree, cocoa and fruity black coffee, also some sweeter notes of dark fruits stewed in Armagnac and a little flower honey. With water: slightly peppery now and leaner, with more focus towards game meats and leafy tobacco notes. In time there's one or two wee bacon frazzles as well. Also some very nice background notes of rancio and plum wine. Nose: it's not a sticky or overly cloying PX profile, rather this is on sultana jam, creme de cassis, banana bread and walnut oil. A Winter Daftmill that's perfect for summer - go figure!ĭaftmill 2012/2022 (57.7%, OB for 'The Drambusters', cask #086, PX Sherry hogshead, 341 bottles)Ĭolour: pale bronze. Comments: perhaps on the simpler side, but when everything is this easy and pleasurable that's really an asset. Finish: medium, still sweet but starting to involve some slightly drier suggestions of pressed flowers and their pollens and more fruit teas. ![]() And I swear it's not because it is presently very hot outside while I'm writing these notes. Still this overwhelming feeling of sunshine and grassy, summery vibes. Hyper-summery! The kind of dram that you could put an ice cube in, dare I say! Mouth: sweet and extremely easy, on yellow and green fruits, touches of custard, dessert wines, chamomile tea and a little putty and linseed oil. Nose: very Daftmill! Which is to say cut grasses, yellow flowers, yellow plums, citrus curds and jellies and some sharper touches of crushed gooseberry and nettle. By now I have confidence that we can anticipate grass, flowers, honey and cosplay Rosebank!ĭaftmill 2010/2023 'Winter Release' (46%, OB, 6550 bottles)Ĭolour: straw. Let's simply work our way through eight recent bottlings today. Skilled taster Angus MacRaild in Scotlandĭaftmill is very firmly in its stride these days. ![]()
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