Aberlour 12 Year Old Oloroso Sherry Matured

Aberlour A'bunadh

Aberlour a’bunadh (Gaelic for ‘from the source’) is matured exclusively on Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strenght. No chillfiltering, no tinting. There are quite a few batches out there already and almost all of them are praised. I had batch 24 about two years ago. So why not try a few more. I I thought I’d put a few batches H2H. Or...

Score 86/100

Aberlour A'bunadh

Saw some glowing reviews of this, and I just had to try it! Nose: Holy cow! This stuff is sooooo powerful, many teaspoons of water to tone this one down! But once you do this is just packed with complex sweet sherry, vanilla, cream, and pepper. Just a whole plethora of great flavours all combined into one powerful sniff! Palate: You really need...

Score 94/100

Aberlour 10 Year Old

My wife gave this bottle back in April 2011, the night I handed in my Master's Research Paper (a friend gave me a bottle of Talisker 10 the same evening), and it has been my go to, comfort dram ever since, beating out the Glenlivet 12, Glenmorangie 10, and Balvenie Double Wood in terms of nose, taste, finish, and overall balance. And now here I...

Score 85/100

Aberlour A'bunadh

First experience: I drank this the first time on a cold winterday. It was outside, and the whisky was as cold as the hipflask it was poured out of. Sublime! I bought a bottle myself only a week thereafter. I must add that I don't know what batch is was the first time, but that first experience with the A'bunadh wasn't repeated with my own bottle. ...

Score 85/100