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Taste rating:4
Region: West Highland
Rich, chocolatey and a little smoky.
Owner: Nikka of Japan
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
£69.90
Including VAT at 20%
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'anCnoc 16yo' C
'Arran 14yo' C,L&D
'Auchentoshan 18yo' D/R&D
'Auchentoshan 3 Wood' R&D
'Ben Nevis Signatory Cask' C&R
'Bunnahabhain 18yo' C,R&S
'Clynelish Signatory Cask' C&R
'Cragganmore 14yo FOTCM'
'Dailuaine 16yo' R
'Edradour Bourbon Decanter' C,R&D
'Edradour Sherry Decanter' R
'Glencadam 21yo' C&D
'Glenfarclas 15yo' R/R&D
'Glenfarclas 175' R/R&D
'Glenfarclas 21yo' R
'Glengoyne 17yo' C,R&D
'Glengoyne Port Finish' C&R
'Glenmorangie Astar' C,L&D
'Glenmorangie Finealta' C
'Hazelburn 12yo'
'Hazelburn Sauternes' R
'Highland Park Signatory 46%'
'Highland Park Signatory Cask'
'Inverarity 10yo' C&L
'Inverarity Ancestral 14yo' C&R
'Inverarity 8yo Islay Blended Malt' S/L&S
'Linkwood G&M 15yo' R,R&D
'Living Cask Current Offering'
'Macphunn' R/R&S
'Mortlach 16yo' R
'Oban Distillers Edition' C&R
'Old Pulteney 17yo' C/L&D
'Springbank 12yo Cask' R/R&S
'Springbank 15yo' R
'Stronachie 18yo' D/R&D
'Tobermory 15yo' C&L
'Tomatin 18yo' D,R&D
'Tomintoul 21yo' C,R&D
'Balvenie Signature 12yo' C,R&D
'Balvenie 15yo Single Barrel'
'Balvenie 21yo Port Wood' L
'Benromach 30yo' C,R&D
'PC9' S/R&S
'Glendronach 21yo' R
'Glenfiddich 18yo' C&D
'Glenfiddich 21yo' R/R&D
'Mortlach 21yo G&M' C,R&D
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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
£27.60
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'Glenfiddich 15yo' R/R&D
'Inverarity 10yo' C&L
'Inverarity Ancestral 14yo' C&R
'Inverarity Islay 8yo Blended Malt' S/L&S
'Loch Fyne Blend' C
'Loch Fyne Liqueur'
'Old Pulteney 12yo' C&S
'Springbank 10yo' L/L&S
'Stronachie 12yo' C,L&D
'Tomintoul 16yo' C&R
'Aberfeldy 12yo' C&L
'Aberlour A'bunadh' R&D
'Arran 10yo' C,L&D
'Auchentoshan Classic' C,R&D
'Balblair 2000' D/L&D
'Benriach Pedro Ximinez' R
'Benromach 10yo' C,L&S
'Benromach Traditional' L/L&S
'Bruichladdich 10yo'
'Bruichladdich Organic'
'Bunnahabhain 12yo' D/R&D
'Clynelish 14yo' C
'Dalmore Gran Reserva' R&D
'Deanston 12yo' C&L
'Glencadam 15yo' C&S
'Glen Elgin 12yo' C
'Glenfarclas 105' R/R&S
'Glenfarclas 10yo' C&R
'Glen Garioch Founders' L/L&D
'Glenmorangie Lasanta' C,R&D
'Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or' C
'Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban' C&D
'Glenmorangie Sonnalta' C/R/D
'Glenrothes 46% Signatory' R/R&D
'Glen Spey 12yo' L&D
'Glentauchers G&M' C&R
'Oban 14yo' C
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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.
See 'label explanations' above for more information.
Added to LFW.CO.UK: 17-OCTOBER-2008
Price excluding VAT: £49.92
£59.90
Including VAT at 20%
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'anCnoc 16yo' C
'Arran 14yo' C,L&D
'Auchentoshan 18yo' D/R&D
'Auchentoshan 3 Wood' R&D
'Ben Nevis Signatory Cask' C&R
'Bunnahabhain 18yo' C,R&S
'Clynelish Signatory Cask' C&R
'Cragganmore 14yo FOTCM'
'Dailuaine 16yo' R
'Edradour Bourbon Decanter' C,R&D
'Edradour Sherry Decanter' R
'Glencadam 21yo' C&D
'Glenfarclas 15yo' R/R&D
'Glenfarclas 175' R/R&D
'Glenfarclas 21yo' R
'Glengoyne 17yo' C,R&D
'Glengoyne Port Finish' C&R
'Glenmorangie Astar' C,L&D
'Glenmorangie Finealta' C
'Hazelburn 12yo'
'Hazelburn Sauternes' R
'Highland Park Signatory 46%'
'Highland Park Signatory Cask'
'Inverarity 10yo' C&L
'Inverarity Ancestral 14yo' C&R
'Inverarity 8yo Islay Blended Malt' S/L&S
'Linkwood G&M 15yo' R,R&D
'Living Cask Current Offering'
'Macphunn' R/R&S
'Mortlach 16yo' R
'Oban Distillers Edition' C&R
'Old Pulteney 17yo' C/L&D
'Springbank 12yo Cask' R/R&S
'Springbank 15yo' R
'Stronachie 18yo' D/R&D
'Tobermory 15yo' C&L
'Tomatin 18yo' D,R&D
'Tomintoul 21yo' C,R&D
'Balvenie Signature 12yo' C,R&D
'Balvenie 15yo Single Barrel'
'Balvenie 21yo Port Wood' L
'Benromach 30yo' C,R&D
'PC9' S/R&S
'Glendronach 21yo' R
'Glenfiddich 18yo' C&D
'Glenfiddich 21yo' R/R&D
'Mortlach 21yo G&M' C,R&D
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Ben Nevis Blends
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Ben Nevis OB 10yo 46%alc.
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: £24.67
£29.60
Including VAT at 20%
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'Glenfiddich 15yo' R/R&D
'Inverarity 10yo' C&L
'Inverarity Ancestral 14yo' C&R
'Inverarity Islay 8yo Blended Malt' S/L&S
'Loch Fyne Blend' C
'Loch Fyne Liqueur'
'Old Pulteney 12yo' C&S
'Springbank 10yo' L/L&S
'Stronachie 12yo' C,L&D
'Tomintoul 16yo' C&R
'Aberfeldy 12yo' C&L
'Aberlour A'bunadh' R&D
'Arran 10yo' C,L&D
'Auchentoshan Classic' C,R&D
'Balblair 2000' D/L&D
'Benriach Pedro Ximinez' R
'Benromach 10yo' C,L&S
'Benromach Traditional' L/L&S
'Bruichladdich 10yo'
'Bruichladdich Organic'
'Bunnahabhain 12yo' D/R&D
'Clynelish 14yo' C
'Dalmore Gran Reserva' R&D
'Deanston 12yo' C&L
'Glencadam 15yo' C&S
'Glen Elgin 12yo' C
'Glenfarclas 105' R/R&S
'Glenfarclas 10yo' C&R
'Glen Garioch Founders' L/L&D
'Glenmorangie Lasanta' C,R&D
'Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or' C
'Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban' C&D
'Glenmorangie Sonnalta' C/R/D
'Glenrothes 46% Signatory' R/R&D
'Glen Spey 12yo' L&D
'Glentauchers G&M' C&R
'Oban 14yo' C
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