28.108 Cranberry Reverie

Tullibardine 12 Year Old 2012, Scotch Malt Whisky Society cask 28.108 Cranberry Reverie, is a single cask single malt Scotch from the Tullibardine distillery in the Highland region (SMWS distillery code 28). Distilled on 21 May 2012, it was matured for 12 years in a first-fill ex-bourbon barrel and bottled at a natural cask strength of 60.9% ABV, with an outturn of just 206 bottles. It comes in a 700ml bottle. The Society places it in its Sweet, fruity & mellow flavour profile, and its Tasting Panel describes a bright orchard-fruit dram of pears, cranberry and melon that turns floral with water. Like every SMWS bottling it is presented at cask strength without chill filtration, and the label carries the Society's cask code rather than the distillery name.

Nose: Pears soaked in cranberry juice, honeydew melon and sliced apples; water brings sweet peas, geranium, tangerine blossom, lilac and vanilla pods

Palate: Vanilla bean, plum and orange peel; with water cranberry returns with lime zest and clotted cream

Serve: Neat first, then with a few drops of water to open it up; at full cask strength it rewards patience.