Interesting bottles. I do have the Tullibardine 25 yr I bought about 4 years ago on auction for about $150, retail price was $300 a couple years ago. It's very smooth, soft, mouth coating with a medium finish. Certainly underrated as nobody really talks about it. Great review
Based on your review I pulled the trigger on the ex-bourbon cask strength Murray 2007 and was very pleasantly surprised to discover a quality and depth I hadn’t experienced in their other expressions. Given how rare higher ABV or unusual bottlings are to come by in Brazil, I will certainly be much more open to taking the risk on other offerings I find here, despite their lack of transparency & bizarre numbering schemes.
On black fruits: blackberries may be joined by blackcurrants. Technically lots of other things are also "fruits" so the web suggests up to 25 "black" fruits, but blackcurrants are the more obvious/believable. On triple port cask finishes: Glencadam 17 Triple Cask Portwood Finish, although I don't know any details about it. On port types: I'd not heard of rosé port but there's also Vintage port, Late Bottled Vintage port, and Colheita port. Not heard of any of those being used to flavour/finish whisky and there may be good reasons why not.
@@WhiskyJason1 I haven't yet had a Colheita--one bottle stashed somewhere--but my understanding is it's kind of a hybrid between VP and tawny, i.e. it carries a single vintage year but is made in a much more oxidative (rancio) style than other vintage ports. I read somewhere that the Portuguese favour it as a style whereas the English-speaking world perhaps less-so?
Interesting bottles. I do have the Tullibardine 25 yr I bought about 4 years ago on auction for about $150, retail price was $300 a couple years ago. It's very smooth, soft, mouth coating with a medium finish. Certainly underrated as nobody really talks about it. Great review
Tullibardine 25 is about 265€ over here - interesting!
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The 12 year old is the only one I've tried and I love the first fill bourbon cask maturation. The Murray expressions are hard to find in SoCal.
keep looking for The Murray expressions
Based on your review I pulled the trigger on the ex-bourbon cask strength Murray 2007 and was very pleasantly surprised to discover a quality and depth I hadn’t experienced in their other expressions. Given how rare higher ABV or unusual bottlings are to come by in Brazil, I will certainly be much more open to taking the risk on other offerings I find here, despite their lack of transparency & bizarre numbering schemes.
so far the murray bottlings have not really disappointed
On black fruits: blackberries may be joined by blackcurrants. Technically lots of other things are also "fruits" so the web suggests up to 25 "black" fruits, but blackcurrants are the more obvious/believable.
On triple port cask finishes: Glencadam 17 Triple Cask Portwood Finish, although I don't know any details about it.
On port types: I'd not heard of rosé port but there's also Vintage port, Late Bottled Vintage port, and Colheita port. Not heard of any of those being used to flavour/finish whisky and there may be good reasons why not.
those are all just basically age statements
@@WhiskyJason1 I haven't yet had a Colheita--one bottle stashed somewhere--but my understanding is it's kind of a hybrid between VP and tawny, i.e. it carries a single vintage year but is made in a much more oxidative (rancio) style than other vintage ports. I read somewhere that the Portuguese favour it as a style whereas the English-speaking world perhaps less-so?
interesting