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Old Pulteney
21 year old is named the World Whisky of
the Year in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2012
after scoring a record equalling 97.5
points!!!.
 The most northerly distillery on
mainland Britain and one of the most
remote in all Scotland has won the
coveted title of World Whisky of the
Year in the 2012 edition of Jim Murray’s
Whisky Bible.
The Pulteney distillery in Wick,
Caithness, scored a record-equalling 97.5
points out of 100 for its 21-year-old
Old Pulteney single malt. It is only the
third time that a single malt has ever
won the prestigious award, and just the
second Scottish distillery to do so.
Nose 25
points:
If you had the formula to perfectly
transform salt, citrus, the most
delicate smoke imaginable, sharp barley,
more gristy barley, light vanilla,
toasty vanilla, roasted hazelnut,
thinned manuka honey, lavender honey,
arbutus blossom and cherry blossom,
light hickory, liquorice, and the
softest demerera sugar into the aroma of
a whisky, you still wouldn’t quite be
able to recreate this perfection.
Taste 24
points:
The sugars arrive: first gristy and
malt-laden, then Demerara. This is
followed by a salty, nerve-tingling
journey of barley at varying intensity
and then a slow but magnificently
complete delivery of spice.
Finish 24
points:
Those spices continue to buzz, the
vanillas dovetail with the malt and the
fruit displaying a puckering, lively
intensity. Ridiculously long fade for a
malt so seemingly light, the salts and
spices kiss the taste buds goodnight.
Overall
Balance & Complexity 24.5 points:
By far and away one of the great
whiskies of 2012, absolutely exploding
from the glass with vitality, charisma
and class. One of Scotland’s great
undiscovered distilleries about to
become discovered, I think... and
rightly so!
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