Whisky Tasting: 25 years of Daniel, part 2

 Regular readers will remember this years' 25 years of Daniel tasting, woohoo we got a second go at the dram. 

So our regular, now enhanced, cabal of four turned up to drink to the great man...this time down in the trenches with us...

Cadenhead Bunnahabhain '89 28yo 43.8% b1/3/2018; bourbon hogshead

• N: grassy, honey suckle, pineapple, wine, bourbon, lemonade
• P: lager, lemon, light, green tea
• F: long peppery, gentle salt, warming

8.5/10 I'm beginning to realise that Neil maybe right and that I like Bunnahabhain. This seems a good thing. Came 8th with 8.0 [story on why there's 8 later]

Adelphi Linkwood 1993 25yo 50.4% Bourbon cask #4469

• N: bourbon, warm, strong, salt/meths, effervescent lemon, floor polish
• P: fruit, ginger, spicy
• F: pepper, long

8/10 interesting and I like Linkwood, but not as great as I hoped. Came 6th with 8.07

Laphroaig 25yo 48.9% 2017 bourbon 2nd fill oloroso

• N: peat, bacon, salt, delicate, vinegar, smokey
• P: salt, bacon, asphalt, methanol
• F: medium, smokey

8/10 Other times I've had the 25yo Laphroaig I've rated it higher. Oh well. 4th 8.9

Longrow 21yo 46% [mystery]

• N: rubber, egg, sulphur, sweet vanilla, sherry, lanolin
• P: sulphur, burnt ash, socks, 
• F: short

7/10 lacking in complexity and possibly missed a trick by being 46%. 7th, 8.01

Adelphi Bowmore 1994 25yo 54.2% refill sherry #554

• N: caramel, salt, toffee, cream, yummy, vanilla.
• P: warm, honey, peat, ash, bread, sweet
• F: long and peppery

9.5/10 again, anyone else bottling Bowmore is onto winners :) superb stuff. Came 3rd, 9.1

Adelphi Glen Keith 1995 23yo 60.5% refill bourbon #8512

• N: banana, sweet, ash, vanilla, PVA glue, violets, peat, sherbert
• P: sweet, aniseed, lemonade
• F: hot, med-long

6/10 not a fan of this, nose promised a lot not much delivered tho. However I was in the minority - came 5th, 8.67. 

Adelphi Mortlach 1993 25yo 56% refill sherry #4469

• N: sherry, sweet, old, complex, cinnamon
• P: complex, sherry, old, xmas cake
• F: long, sweet

9.5/10 hey it's a Mortlach, and an old one. Of course I'd like it. Ticked all the Mortlach boxes of meaty sherry complexity. Everyone else finally got their crap sorted and agreed with me, came 2nd 9.47.

so the 8th dram? All the dregs from Best of the Best into a teapot dram. This came first with 9.92. 

-b