Monty is not here to try this with me, but I do know someone who is learning Python. And this distillery is dead.
Glenesk 1982/1995 (40%, Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice imported by La Maison du Whisky, IE/BDB): nose: cardboard, at first, then vinegar. It is not the dodgy vinegar from the official twelve-year-old, though; rather a soft brine and pickled red onions. Another minute, and it is walnuts, fallen off the tree, laying on the lawn, waiting to be picked up (and to stain the hands that do so!) Walnut vinegar, walnut liqueur, then kalamata olives in brine -- oh! this is brine-y indeed. A touch of (brown) shoe polish (the tubed kind), papier mâché, greasy newspapers from an old chip shop. Lastly, cardboard ashes emerge, mixed in with fresh mandarin peels. Mouth: unexpectedly sweet, it has the bitterness of walnut skins to supplement walnut liqueur, and a drop of orange juice. There is a remnant of the brine, but it is softy-soft; perhaps the brine of a jar of pickled red onions was used to deglaze a frying pan in which red-onion slices were fried until they caramelised and released all their sweetness. The reduction is clear, yet it does not affect the whisky too negatively, I reckon, keeping the vinegar in check. Finish: it has an edge -- an almost-cardboardy, fleeting edge. That disappears almost as soon as it is felt, to leave the velvety impression of a well-balanced walnut liqueur again. Caramelised red onions, soft and sweet, walnut oil and distant Virginia tobacco. Not the complexest and not necessarily the most easily accessible, but totally up my alley! 8/10
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