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[Quick Review] The Gladstone Axe - The Black Axe, Blended Malt, 41%

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  Distillery:  Blended Malt Bottler:  Biggar & Leith Age:  NAS Distilled:  N/A Bottled:  2021 Cask:  N/A Abv:  41% Unchillfiltered:  N/A Natural Colour: N/A Nb of bottles:  N/A Price: around £30 Extra:  Blended Malt Whisky My tasting notes: Nose:  Sweet and fruity, oak spice, vanilla toffee, barley sugar and malted barley and a whiff of smoke. It is a blended malt but there is a faint grain spirit note kicking around. Pleasant! Palate:  Rich, caramel sweetness, oak spice again, some heather notes, cinnamon, citrus hints around and smoke again. Quite a thin mouthfeel but enjoyable enough! Finish:  Warming oak, slight salinity, gentle peat smoke, hints of bitter citrus and vanilla, quite drying and not very long. Pleasantly surprised by this one. The addition of peat is adding to the dram rather than trying to put people off! I don’t know how old it is or which malts have been used but what I can say is that th...