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Inchmurrin 12 Year Old Island Collection

Inchmurrin 12 Year Old Island Collection

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Distillery: Loch Lomond
Type: Scotch
Age: 12 Years
ABV: 46%
Price: £35

Tasting Notes

Nose

Vibrant fruity sweetness — pear, red apples, ripe blueberries. Cereals, allspice, ginger, pepper. Dry grassy notes balance a toffee sweetness. The Straight Neck stills' influence shows in the distinctive fruit character.

Palate

Bursts with peaches, red apples and pears — a rich, juicy fruit salad. Grapefruit offers zesty contrast. Creamy fudge, vanilla. Milk chocolate, toasted oak, black pepper and allspice provide a surprising twist.

Finish

Medium — fruity sweetness, drying oak, peppery. Clean and composed.

Inchmurrin 12 Year Old is Loch Lomond's unpeated single malt — named for the largest island in the loch and produced using the distillery's remarkable Straight Neck stills. These unusual stills create a spirit with a distinctive orchard fruit character that conventional pot stills cannot replicate. Matured in selected American oak casks for twelve years.

The Straight Neck still influence is the differentiator. The orchard fruit character — peach, apple, pear — is more vivid and juicy than most Highland malts achieve. At twelve years, this fruit has developed genuine depth, with fudge and vanilla from the oak adding richness and the allspice and pepper providing a spicy counterpoint.

Inchmurrin 12 is one of the best-value twelve-year-old single malts in Scotland. The unique still character gives it genuine distinctiveness, the twelve years provide adequate maturity, and the 46% non-chill-filtered presentation is honest. A fruity, characterful Highland malt at a very fair price.

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Duncan Cairns
Duncan Cairns
Senior Whisky Reviewer

Duncan has spent two decades judging Scotch whisky at competitions from the International Wine & Spirit Competition to the World Whiskies Awards, developing a palate that prizes balance and terroir ab...

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