CRAGGANMORE
12-year-old, 40% abv.
Michael
Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Color - Golden
Nose
- The most complex aroma of any malt. Its bouquet ia astonishingly fragrant
and delicate, with sweetish notes of cut grass and herbs (thyme perhaps?).
Body - Light to medium, but very firm and smooth.
Palate - Delicate, clean, restrained, with a huge range of herbal
flowery notes.
Finish
- Long
Malt
Whisky File: John Lamon & Robin Tucek
Sweetness
- 6 |
Peatiness
- 7 |
Availability
-9 |
Color
- Amber with pale gold highlights.
Nose - Clean, with quite good body, medium-dry, smokily-peaty, slightly
creamy with a light green touch.
Flavour - Quite full-bodied, round with a hint of spice, smoky
and creamy.
Finish - Quite long, clean and fresh.
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CRAGGANMORE
1984, Double Matured, 40% abv
(finished in ruby port)
Michael
Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Color - Pale amber.
Nose - Heather honey. Scented. Beeswax. Hessian.
Body - Firm smooth. Fuller.
Palate
- Flowery. Orange Blossom. Sweet oranges. Cherries. Port.
Finish - Flowery, balancing dryness. Warming. Soothing. Connoisseurs
might miss the austerity of the original - or enjoy the added layer
of fruity, winey, sweetness.
Malt
Whisky File: John Lamon & Robin Tucek
Sweetness
- 6 |
Peatiness
- 7 |
Availability
- 4 |
Color
- Mid-amber with old-gold highlights.
Nose - Full, medium-sweet and honeyed and nutty with quite solid
peatiness, quite dark, rich, oaky vanilla and notes of demerara sugar
and mandarin oranges.
Palate - Medium-dry, quite big-bodied, rich and creamy with a
nutty oakiness and quite a solid peat note.
Finish -Long, quite fruity and spicy with a dark peaty note.
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CRAGGANMORE
1976, 53.8 vol,
Gordon & MacPhail
Michael
Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Color - Pale gold
Nose
- Fragrant, lightly peaty, grassy, nutty, herbal.
Body - Medium, very smooth.
Palate - complex, restrained, with rooty, licorice notes.
Finish - Long, more licorice, enveloping.
Malt
Whisky File: John Lamon & Robin Tucek
Sweetness
- 6 |
Peatiness
- 7 |
Availability
- 2 |
Color
- Pale to mid-amber with yellow/gold highlights.
Nose - Quite full-bodied and medium-sweet with a darl nutty peatiness.
Palate - Medium-dry, round and quite smooth with good body, a
rich oakiness and a firm smokiness.
Finish -Long, clean and gently smoky with richness on the tail.
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