From Whiskyfun.com:
This new one is a vatting of peated and unpeated Ardnamurchan and consists in 2/3 ex-bourbon and 1/3 ex-sherry wood. They wouldn't say if the latter was treated with paxare…, I mean PX or not. Last year's 'AD/09.20:01' (boy they do not make our lives easy, do they) had been quite splendid already (WF 86). Colour: white wine. Nose: visiting a working distillery that's still got malting floors. Barley, grist, husk, mash, yeast, wash, low wines, spirit and the manager's old Range Rover stalled in the Distillery's car park. Of course this is complete fiction, but this nose is pretty perfect, with a whole pool of oil in the background. Mouth: feels much peatier than on the nose, vegetal, a tad curry and wasabi-like, with some umami, savoury notes, tobacco, black tea leaves, Seville oranges, bell pepper, black pepper, horseradish (or more wasabi), and even a wee feeling of bison grass. Remember Zubrowka? I find it rather austere, rather wonderfully austere. Finish: long, peaty, grassy, vegetal, with some saltiness and just a touch of kumquat. Comments: wonderful pepperiness here, I'd wager it's not easy to get this kind of balance right.
SGP:465 - 87 points.
Livets Goda:
Liksom föregångaren är det svårt att inte bli imponerad över vad vi har att göra med. Det råder ett harmoniskt lugn i whiskyn och faten visar sig men balanserat och dess hantering av råspriten är av ytterst fingertoppskänsligt slag. En nyanserad rökighet liksom en ljus och finlemmad sötma med vanilj, lakrits och fudge ligger vackert i fruktens yttringar av violblommig mjuk citrus, körsbär och mogna, honungspenslade äpplen. Mot avslutet en växer en fast hållen men slipad kryddighet liksom humidortorkat tobak fram. En whisky som obönhörligen spelar på den eleganta sidan men har en stark ryggrad och edge i detta.
94 LGP