Core Range - Spey

Continuing the series of posts showing a distillery's core range of bottlings.

This time looking at Spey

Bottle	Chairman's Choice @MaltMusings Review Here
Characteristics	40% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon and Sherry casks
UK Price	£65
Tasting notes	Nose: The aroma is floral with fruit and a touch of vanilla. Palate: Flavours of dried fruits with a soft nutty and long creamy finish. Mellow cinnamon and sweet oak with a gentle and rounded aftertaste.

Bottle	Trutinā @MaltMusings Review Here
Characteristics	46% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon casks
UK Price	£42
Tasting notes	Nose: A light nose, with an initial savoury top-note on a fruity base (white grapes, apple blossom, lychees in syrup), developing floral notes, with a hint of boiled sweets. Palate: Light texture, with a sweet start leading to crisp acidity and notes of scented sweets, with a finish of white chocolate.

Bottle	Trutinā Cask Strength
Characteristics	c59% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon casks
UK Price	£60
Tasting notes	Nose: A light nose, with an initial clean and fruity notes. All very delicate, with little to indicate the higher strength. Palate: Initial flavours are of vanilla & cream soda, with the higher strength bringing in some bolder fruit flavours with a hint of white pepper to finish.

Bottle	Tenné
Characteristics	46% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Tawny Port cask finish
UK Price	£44
Tasting notes	Nose: notes of faint raspberry jam and rose wine, pot-pourri and pale fruits Palate: Light in texture, sweet & faintly fruity, before drying slightly, leaving a trace of almonds in the finish.

Bottle	Tenné Cask Strength @MaltMusings Review Here
Characteristics	c59% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Tawny Port cask finish
UK Price	£62
Tasting notes	Nose: concentrated fruit notes along with jam & red wine are evident. Palate: the texture is still light, with distinct sweet and fruity flavours in balance, and working well with the higher strength spirit.

Bottle	Fūmāre
Characteristics	xx% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon casks, peated
UK Price	£48
Tasting notes	Nose: A distinctly medicinal aroma – carbolic, coal tar soap – on a light & fresh maritime base of salt air, iodine & seaweed. Palate: Light texture, sweet & lightly salty, with a smoky, medicinal finish. Finish: Bonfire smoke and sweet basil.

Bottle	Fūmāre Cask Strength @MaltMusings Review Here
Characteristics	c60% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon casks, peated
UK Price	£65
Tasting notes	Nose: The delicate character of the spirit is evident, though it’s very clear that this is a peated whisky. Palate: The smoke slowly builds in intensity, but with minimal medicinal notes, and increased sweetness.

Bottle	Royal Choice @MaltMusings Review Here
Characteristics	46% ABV NAS NCF/NC
Maturation	Bourbon and Sherry casks
UK Price	£150
Tasting notes	Nose: Aromas of toffee, dried fruits and oak leading on to a smooth creamy texture. Palate: Flavours of butterscotch, warm spices and more oak yield to a long silky smooth finish which lingers on and on.

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