My tulips caught me with my pants down this year. They've been growing below their leaf bed without their owner's tender loving care. Poor things. I've been busy getting redemption with weed whacking, raking, trimming, and soiled hands.
On a different note, we review today our first Deanston, the Virgin Oak, $50 CAD, 46% ABV.
We sniff around.
Simon pulls apples. Apple concentrate.
Scott adds wood, cinammon, and honey.
Nice nose. Plain but fragrant.
We cheers.
Trevor gets green apples, honey, oak, smooth.
Kyle pulls out these nutty flavors, some spice to it too.
Simon definitely gets that nuttiness. Calls it marzipan.
It's got some good heat to it.
Reviews: The S&P crew is overall pretty impressed with this. Trevor starts us off with an 83. This is doing a lot of things right, nicely balanced. Kyle is on a similar wavelength, goes 81. For Simon, this is a pretty plain and nice scotch, in the low 70s, except for that marzipan flavor that pops out, and that bumps it up a notch for him. Pins this down as a 76. Scott rounds this up with a 73. His palate wasn't privy to the marzipan, so as far as he's concerned this is a plain, balanced, flavor forward, good average scotch. We average out to 78.3.
Overall: In general this rates slightly above average, but it also happens to be the cheapest scotch we've reviewed so far, a few dollars less than Johnnie Walker Black. That means this climbs way up to 87 points on our value scale, edged out only by Bowmore 15 (87.2), Bowmore 12 (87.8), and Lagavulin 8 (90.3). Highly recommend this for people on a budget, that are still looking for a solid sipper.
Cheers!
The S&P Crew.
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