70.53 Fragile fruits and floaty flowers
$219.00 inc. GST
Out of stock
Description
From the team
It’s always a treat seeing Distillery 70 in this age bracket — 14 years of full maturation in a 2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel — and in probably our least seen Flavour Profile, Light & Delicate. We say this every time but it’s worth repeating — this dram is still full-flavoured, and it is still cask strength (just check the stats), and this one is bursting with fizzy lemonade and crisp fruits freshly plucked from a manor garden in the English countryside. This one is worth adding a bit of water to if you prefer a zestier, aniseed-like dram. Only 18 bottles to go around this month.
Tasting Panel notes
The delicate and subtle profile of this dram was immediately apparent upon first nosing. We found no single dominant aroma but rather a range of lovely notes including pineapple tarts, sea buckthorn, cloudy lemonade, freshly laundered linens, lemon cough drops and heather flowers. With water came quince jelly, cider apple, gooseberry, white flowers, lemon oil and bog cotton. The palate opened with a refreshing citrus zing, then notes of quinine, nettles, parsley, gorse flower and lots of white stone fruits, plus a pang of green apple acidity and white pepper. Reduction brought lovely flavours of aniseed, fennel, dried seaweed, guava and kiwi with a dusting of pollen.
