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<blockquote data-quote="MrXY" data-source="post: 252448" data-attributes="member: 2744">Had a dram of this the other day-outstanding. I had never had an Aberlour before; this one is supposedly an attempt to recreate the taste of an 1898 bottle that was found hidden in the distillery in 1975. It has no age statement because it&#039;s a blend of whiskey aged from 5 to 25 years. Still a single malt though. It&#039;s a Speyside with no peating I could detect. Aging in oloroso sherry casks&nbsp; gives it a great rich sherry toned flavor-think dark cherries and raisins soaked in oloroso for a few days. Oddly, though this is a cask strength whiskey-usually meaning 110 to 125 proof I didn&#039;t feel the need to cut it with water as is normally the case with the the cask strength malts. I found myself enjoying the hot cinnamon flavor of the alcohol burn<img src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpiIvqSSqxX6dvonttOYuA_Q2kPHHhnVqen9iYz3SUvugk8TBeWQ" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrXY, post: 252448, member: 2744"] Had a dram of this the other day-outstanding. I had never had an Aberlour before; this one is supposedly an attempt to recreate the taste of an 1898 bottle that was found hidden in the distillery in 1975. It has no age statement because it's a blend of whiskey aged from 5 to 25 years. Still a single malt though. It's a Speyside with no peating I could detect. Aging in oloroso sherry casks gives it a great rich sherry toned flavor-think dark cherries and raisins soaked in oloroso for a few days. Oddly, though this is a cask strength whiskey-usually meaning 110 to 125 proof I didn't feel the need to cut it with water as is normally the case with the the cask strength malts. I found myself enjoying the hot cinnamon flavor of the alcohol burn [img]https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpiIvqSSqxX6dvonttOYuA_Q2kPHHhnVqen9iYz3SUvugk8TBeWQ[/img] [/QUOTE]

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