I wouldn’t consider myself a whisky connoisseur but I have tried a number of single malts over the last few years and this is my favourite. It has lovely smooth texture and the main flavours are at the sweeter end of the whisky spectrum, honey, vanilla, a touch of ginger and chocolate. I add a single cube of ice to it and it goes down really well! Highly recommended. I’m not a fan of the smokey and peaty flavours you find in some single malts so if that’s to your taste, do not but this whisky!

Fettercairn 12 Year Old Whisky | Master of Malt

Fettercairn Bottler Distillery Bottling Bottling serie 2nd Release 2021 Bottled 01.12.2021 Stated Age 16 years old Casktype Oloroso & Palo Cortado Sherry Butts Strength 46.4 % Vol. Size 700 ml 1000 ml Bottle code L1335 xx:xx P7017858 Barcode 5013967018709 Added on 11 dec 2021 10:07 pm by Mr.Edradour I’m often asked by my non-whisky friends why I visit so many distilleries. Surely, they say “….they’re all exactly the same, haven’t you seen it all many times before?”. Well, in technical sense yes – water, barley and yeast = whisky – and the processes of mashing, fermentation and distillation are common across all distilleries in their essence. But, it’s the differences – some incredibly subtle – at each and every stage of the whisky making process which result in marked variances of the end liquid. The minutiae of the processes operated across different distilleries * are* different. And they’re important. A change here, or a change there will have a dramatic effect on the flavour and character of the eventual whisky. To the uninitiated it’s easy to understand why things might look the same, but under the hood, there’s a reason why whiskies are different. As a finish, more vanilla, with barely any dry element to round the dram out. Very down-to-earth, easy to process. Okay in my book, nothing bad about it at all. Because it is only 40% ABV, it is also easier to drink than most other whiskies in the same age category. Old whiskies are more expensive, partially, because there's simply less to bottle after their full maturation.It may not be a massive price jump but it is a jump nonetheless, and when you consider that Springbank and Ardbeg, the two nearest in price are bottled un-chill-filtered at 46%, while Fettercairn is diluted to 40%, the difference looks all the more dramatic. Producing whisky is expensive. More expensive than creating other types of distilled products. Before you can call a distilled product "whisky", it needs to mature for at least 3 years. It is not overly complex, but allows you to taste a couple of flavours and experience a couple of aromas.

Fettercairn 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky | Waitrose

Contrary to popular belief, single malts are also 'blends', but there is a huge difference with blended whiskies: a blended whisky has whiskies from different distilleries blended together, whereas a single malt whisky is a blend of casks which contained the same type of distilled malted barley, and the casks all came from the same distillery. There's a phrase in the whisky community that is used to describe those special bottles that are very hard to find and are therefore incredibly expensive. 'Unicorn expressions' have an almost mythical status, as plenty of people in the community want to turn their fantasy of tasting, or even owning, such an expression into reality. For this review, I am not going to claim the Fettercairn 12 is a 'Unicorn expression', although it has a unicorn on its label. I am, however, going to put it to the test: is this an expression worth chasing, or not? Regardless of whether the Service offers the functionality to contribute, you are solely responsible and liable for any content and information that you create, upload, post, publish, link to, duplicate, transmit, record, display or otherwise make available on the Service or to other Members, such as chat messages, text messages, videos, audio, audio recordings, music, pictures, photographs, text and any other information or materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (“Contributions”). If we decide not to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms, such decision shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Nose: Fruity, apricot, peach, plum, raspberry, floral, rose, turkish delight dusted with icing sugar, yeasty, ginger and orange marmalade on toasted malt loaf/soreen.

Fettercairn Bottler Distillery Bottling Bottled 2018 Stated Age 12 years old Casktype Bourbon barrel Strength 40.0 % Vol. Size 700 ml Bottle code L8206 Barcode 5013967013957 Added on 30 aug 2018 7:28 pm by whisky313 Although slightly above my personal 'ideal price' in my head, this expression offers up a palate which is perfect for people who are starting their whisky journey.

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Well, as always, Wikipedia is your friend: " Chill filteringis a method in whisky making for removing residue.In chill filtering, whisky is cooled to between −10° and 4° Celsius(often roughly 0°) and passed through a fine adsorption filter. This maturation needs to happen on wooden casks made from oak not exceeding 700l in volume (Scotch Whisky Act of 1988 and 1990). Fettercairn is a distillery who’s differences are more visually apparent than most. An open-topped mash tun (always fun to see in operation) produces a cloudy wort – this results in a more malty, nutty and spicy spirit style as opposed to a clear wort which centres on sweetness rather than cereal character. But, perhaps the biggest alteration from the norm comes with Fettercairn’s stills.So the flavours and aromas change. Using chill filtering, therefore, makes your whisky taste less 'natural'. But is that a bad thing? Thoughts: It’s actually a pleasant wee sipper of a dram but inevitably struggles to justify the price tag. There’s nothing radical going on but it’s a well executed example of a highland malt flavour profile. There’s some depth to the flavour profile and it feels like some decent casks have gone into it. It turns out that when you leave your whisky non-chill filtered, you can still counter the 'fog' in the bottle by raising the alcohol percentage to 46% ABV (Whisky.com).