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Ben Nevis (McDonald's Traditional) OB 46%alc.

A peaty Ben Nevis, as good as the best - from anywhere!

My LFW Descriptors Mat tells me this pale straw in colour.

The aroma is oily, fishy (salmon flesh) with pipe shag-smoke. It covers more parts of the flavour spectrum than most, leather and oilskins (from feinty). Woody notes manifest as orange zest and cinnamon. Wine notes are brown sauce, port and white chocolate and esters are represented with bananas and general fruit. There is also marmite-gravy and biro ink. Over all this is a canopy of smoke, all-covering but masking little. It's a smoky/kippery/lint smoke, lacking Islay brine and just how you imagine a proper West Coast mainland whisky should taste like.

The overall neat aroma note is, in short, "spectacular!"

The packaging is not at all clear. This is a single malt from Ben Nevis made up of present style Ben Nevis mixed with some more heavily peated Ben Nevis. The purpose is to replicate the style of whisky sold in the 1880s, I can't vouch for the quality of the forgery but it is a brilliant old-fashioned style of whisky. Limited to about 700 individually numbered bottles this is a gem to-be-sure.

Tasted there is instant smoke, it's peaty-smoke, TCP peaty. With an oily texture, there's wet burnt wood (rained on ashes) and oily smoky oysters served with Lapsang Souchong tea. With a long coating finish of smoke, this is as good as the best whisky from anywhere.

Water reveals licorice and more of the above but I enjoyed it most just neat.

Clearly an Ace for me, on the Flavour map I have it in square D8
Complex, Light and Smoky

McDonald's Traditional Ben Nevis
Barcode: 5026673000616

Price excluding VAT: £58.25
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Ben Nevis OB 10yo 46%alc. DEAL!

Deal price is £2.00 off

was £29.60 inc vat
NOW £27.60 inc vat

A great dram, rich and oily with a wee reek of peat, a real West Highlander.

On the Malt Whisky Flavour Map we reckon this belongs in square: G8
Rich / Smoky

Ben Nevis 10 year old
Barcode: 5026673000234

Price excluding VAT: £23.00
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Ben Nevis S 1992 15yo 56.6%alc.

Initially it's soy sauce but once you get past that it's astonishingly complex and varied with a final memory of a perfect Christmas pudding! In between that we found: vinegar, coffee and cocoa, elderberries, liquorice, cinnamon, snuff (James Robertson Justice's mix), oak (eventually) and some emulsion paint. That wonderful Xmas pud is first on the tongue then tobacco with a well-balanced oily swallow.

A wonderfully complex flavoursome dram with a nice tannic port-like finish. Ace.

A signatory independent single cask strength bottling.

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Added to LFW.CO.UK: 17-OCTOBER-2008

Price excluding VAT: £49.92
£59.90 Including VAT at 20%

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