Pintail – Teaninich 8 Year Old Vin Santo Wine Cask Finish Whisky 55% abv

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❄️ Non Chill Filtered

🖍 Natural Colour

Colour 🌈 : Tarnished Gold

Nose👃🏼 : Marzipan, almonds, vanilla fudge, cinnamon and green apples

Taste 👅 : Shortbread, apricots, apple peel, earthy, tannic and ginger spice

Finish 🏁 : Black pepper, orange marmalade and bittersweet dark chocolate

Thoughts 💭 : A lovely dram with rich complex flavours and a bittersweet profile. This was distilled and filled into a refill Hogshead at Teaninich distillery and was then split into two European oak Octaves which previously held Vin Santo wine for a year.
Vin Santo is also known as the Holy Wine of Tuscany and is used as a dessert wine (similar to how PX is used in Spain).
The mouthfeel to this is medium, the bittersweet tones give a good balance and layers of complexity come through with each sip.
All in all it’s an excellent whisky, well worth grabbing a bottle and you gotta love the colourful duck (pintail) on the bottle.

Sláinte!

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