Cask No. 9.179
Cleopatra’s bath time
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Flavour Profile:Juicy Oak & Vanilla
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Age:16 years
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Region:Speyside, Spey
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Cask:First-fill barrel
Notes
Cask No. 9.179
Cleopatra’s bath time
Speyside, Spey
The nose was garden flowers sniffed through a freshly puttied window frame, waxy lemon sweets and Vin Santo served with biscotti. The palate was definitely quite exotic – melon skins, lemon and ground almond frangipani, sherbet straws and orange oil – one panellist kept muttering about Cleopatra, freshly bathed in rose petals and milk! The reduced nose delighted us with honey, dark chocolate-coated marzipan, toffee bonbons, aromatherapy oils – including mint and rosemary – and a Funchal flower market next-door to Blandy’s. The reduced palate was silky smooth – chocolate Swiss roll, raspberry, coconut and vanilla, with a finish hinting at oak, tobacco and grapefruit peel.
Cask: First-fill barrel
Age: 16 years
Date distilled: September 2003
Alcohol: 54.9%
USA allocation: 96 bottles
