Barley, honey, heather opening to ripe stone fruits and spice — floral lavender and rose, sherry threading throughout
Earth and soaked wood blend with deep vanilla — sharp spice rounded by plum, fruitcake, gingerbread warmth
Medium — drying, spiced sherry oak, lingering plum and ginger
Glenfiddich Malt Master's Sherry — 2012, Brian Kinsman's first. Double matured. 43%.
Honey and stone fruit nose. Vanilla and fruitcake palate. Medium sherry finish. Pleasant double maturation.
Malt Master's Sherry earns a 7 — pleasant easy-going sherry finish at £50. Gentle complexity, though faces tough competition from Balvenie DoubleWood.
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