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Spirit Name:
Rating:
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Monkey Shoulder (Batch 27)
★★★★
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Score:
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76/100
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ABV:
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40%
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Region:
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Scotland
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Body:
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Medium
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Intensity:
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Medium
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Texture:
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Medium
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Balance:
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OK
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Best served:
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Neat, mixed
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Theme(s):
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This whisky is a blended (vatted) malt. Some warm toffee and licorice bullets begin to emerge but are shot down by something bitter, and, dare I say it, “furry” like biting the skin of an over ripe persimmon and licking a cheap envelope.
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Tasting notes:
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Nose: Fresh, mild and light, the nose on this whisky offers stone fruits with a beautiful shine of malt and barley alongside a warm cube of light toffee. There are some light shades of caramel milk chocolate and licorice bullets.
Taste: Sensationally smooth, there are chocolate licorice notes that develop with the honeyed fruit and some mild oak. There is a bitter burn that destabilizes the experience, and ends what is otherwise a nice whisky. Pity.
Finish: Beautifully long and smooth, the finish leaves a warmth that glows softly but the bitter, almost furry, notes that interrupted on the palate lingers.
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Likes:
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Very smooth
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Dislikes:
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Bitter, almost furry, note interrupts the balance.
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Price:
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$44.99 (Aus)
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