Occasionally Kintra does a Confidential Cask. This one is from Speyside, and usually unnamed Speysiders turn out to be Glenfarclas, but recently there have been quite a few Balvenies popping up.

Not much to say about it, so here it goes.

Nose:
Light ‘whisky’ with quite some sherry under its belt. Loads of fruit, mostly fresh. Plums, peaches, grapes. Tinned peach syrup (with a bit of the tin flavor). The sherry is rather fresh and not as cloying as it can be with youngsters at this age. It does get a bit thin after a minute or ten.

Taste:
Again, light with lots of fruit. Sweet and juicy nectarines and peaches. There’s some barley and cereal underneath it, with just the slightest hint of chili pepper in there.

Finish:
The finish is smooth and not too long (it is, after all, only 8 years old). Quite a few flavors with mostly fruit. Almost no wood but all less-welcome youthy flavors like spirit and sulfur are gone too. Slighty more spices than before.

A pretty damn fine dram, if I might say so! I’d say this to be a Glenfarclas, but as anyone involved in last year’s Blind Tasting Competition, my vote on that is worth squat. It might be a bit one dimensional but still pretty damn tasty! Maybe even too drinkable!

2nd Confidential Cask, 8 years old, Kintra Whisky, sherry butt, 52.9%, € 69.99 at Drinks & Gifts.