Official Tasting notes
Nose: Sweet vanilla musk fills the nose and draws you in. Maltesers, cinnamon, anise, dried apple, roasting pineapple, musk and a strong mixed berry jam note with a balancing whiff of ethereal perfume.
Palate: Intensely creamy and incredibly textural. Aloha! shouts the tropical fruit salad of pineapple, passionfruit and honeydew melon, served up with Chantilly cream, mixed berry jam, sweet pastry, vanilla custard, toffee and caramel fudge, all backed up by a deliciously warm barley grain note.
Finish: “Long” doesn’t seem to do this justice. It’s fair to say epic. The warm grains are followed by all the sweet sugary things. Caramel, chocolate brownie, malt extract, custard, and raspberry jam. And low and behold, in even these oldest of Sullivans’ whiskies, there is that quintessential coconut oil and fresh orange note, and it’s everywhere at the never-ending story of this whisky’s finish.
Sullivans Cove 21 Year Old 25th Anniversary Special Edition 770ml 49.6%
