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

 

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 the end product is a decent enough blended malt, well put together and at around £30 in the U.K., it’s better than a lot of it’s competitors (blends, blended malts and single malts alike)


Slàinte all!

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