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Deanston 20 Year Old

Deanston 20 Year Old

8.2 /10
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Distillery: Deanston
Type: Scotch
Age: 20 Years
ABV: 55.3%
Price: £100

Tasting Notes

Nose

Polished oak, honey, dried fruit. Twenty years have given genuine maturity to Deanston's clean, biscuity spirit. Beneath the oak, vanilla, toffee apple and a composed warmth. At cask strength, vivid and complex.

Palate

Mature and honeyed — dried fruit, polished oak, a gentle spice. Twenty years provide genuine complexity, and the cask strength gives full expression. Mid-palate brings dark toffee, a gentle warmth and a satisfying cereal depth. The Perthshire water quality shows.

Finish

Long, with mature oak and honeyed malt sustaining elegantly.

Deanston 20 Year Old presents two decades of Perthshire maturation at cask strength — a combination that reveals genuine depth in this underrated Highland distillery's spirit. The cotton mill building's thick stone walls provide stable maturation conditions, and twenty years have allowed the clean, biscuity Deanston spirit to develop genuine complexity.

At cask strength, the maturity is fully expressed. The polished oak, dried fruit and honeyed warmth that twenty years provide arrive without the dilution that would mute them. The non-chill-filtered presentation preserves the spirit's natural oils.

Deanston 20 is an impressive aged Highland malt that demonstrates the distillery's capacity for genuine maturation excellence. At its price for a twenty-year-old cask-strength single malt, it represents genuine value. One of Highland whisky's quieter treasures.

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Joe Whitfield
Joe Whitfield
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Joe has spent over fifteen years immersed in the whiskey industry, beginning his career at a Speyside distillery before moving into drinks journalism. As Editor-in-Chief at Whiskeyful.com, he oversees...

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