Whisky - M&S 12 Year Highland Malt

The Origen of this carefully crafted libation is unclear, but the packaging offers clews which lead me to make an educated guess.  The first of these is the distilling company, Burn Stewart who produce whiskeys for some supermarkets as well as owning 3 distilleries, deanston in Perthshire, Tobermory on Mull and bunnahabhain on Islay.  They also control the Black Bottle blend and another less known example called Scottish Leader.  The packaging for this 12 year old single malt produced for Marx and Spenser’s in the UK states that this is a 12 year old single malt from Perthshire, so I would guess Deanston as it would be less expensive for them to supply an in-house malt than a competitors offering.

Nose:  Youthful, green malt musty, heathery vegetation.

Pallet:  gingery but lacks body, oily, not much else I’m afraid.  Grainy with little taste development.

Finnish:  short oily and cookie like.

Comments:  Yep this is a deanston but better than the first I tasted in Preston years ago. Not so oily and the taste doesn’t last so long thank goodness!

Score:  49