'tis the night again. The come and go quickly, do they not?
Glen Moray 10yo (40%, A.D. Rattray Whiskies of Distinction, b. ca. 2020): it is unclear if this is a rebottled official bottling, or a genuine Rattray selection. A.D. Rattray bottled a 10yo Glen Moray in 2019 for Whighams Edinburgh (C#5678), but the few details given on this sample do not match. Nose: woah! Pot-pourri has never been this clear. It is a heady blend of dried flowers, cinnamon sticks, and cloves, rose petals morphing from dried to plush and velvety, and dried apple slices. It has a whiff of cut forsythia too, reaching the end of its vase life, and wilting. Behind that comes hardened modelling wax, left out for long enough to have gone a little stale, then blooming bushes (brambles). Fifteen-twenty minutes in, it acquires a certain fruitiness, with cut orchard fruit coming to the fore. The second nose has dried watercolour, which is a logical extension of modelling wax, I suppose. Mouth: young and somewhat brash, honestly. Even at 40%, the alcohol does not feel terribly-well integrated, and the whole resembles chewing on a ball of plasticine that would have macerated in malt vinegar. Much more than that, one would be hard pressed to find. The second sip is fresher, and less vinegar-y. It somehow reminds me of windscreen defroster spray. That has its charm, for some. I like it in general, but not sure I do in whisky. Finish: quite similar to the palate in that it does not have a harmonious alcohol integration, and it plays the vinegar-y plasticine card as if nothing else mattered (there is no metal here, you power-ballad enthusiasts). The following gulps are in line, though they add a spoonful of grated milk chocolate as a bonus. It makes me think of the blue (aniseed?) chocolate sold in Venice, for whatever reason (see picture). A promising nose, but it is disappointing from then onward. It is simple, uninteresting, and not very well made, if not at all disgusting. 6/10 (Thanks for the sample, A.D. Rattray)
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