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Wemyss Malts Spiced Chocolate Cup (distilled at Clynelish) 1997, 46%

Price: 108 Issue: Winter 2013 Reviewer: Gavin Smith Category: Single Malt Scotch

This single cask bottling of Clynelish from Wemyss Malts is 16 years old, and just 302 bottles were yielded by the bourbon hogshead in which maturation took place. Milk chocolate, orange, and malt on the nose; fragrant, with stem ginger. Zesty and notably spicy on the palate, with applesauce, peaches, and digestive biscuits. Relatively long in the finish, with oak, allspice, and persistent fruitiness.£67