Standing on Banff Harbour eating a sticky toffee pudding – Fragrant Drops Inchgower 14
Listeners of the podcast will know that we love a ‘wanky tasting note’.
Our Indy Bottler Spotlights let our ‘live studio audience’ join in and share tasting notes on the drams we try.
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In our most recent Indy Bottler Spotlight, we were treated to the best tasting note we’ve heard yet.
For me, the dram of the night was the Inchgower 14yo with a 2.5 year finish in a Sauternes Barrique.
George re-racked the cask into a Sauternes barrique, forgot about it, then returned and found it was an absolute banger.
Inchgower isn’t a distillery that many will be familiar with. There’s not much Inchgower on the market and certainly little or no distillery releases.
I’ve enjoyed several drams of the excellent 14yo Flora & Fauna release, but as Stephen Woodcock mentioned in our recent episode, Inchgower is primarily a blending distillery.
Inchgower is very unique in the sense that it’s known as a ‘costal Speyside distillery’.
Maratine flavours of brine and saltiness aren’t what you’d usually expect from a Speyside dram.
Adding in a 2.5 year finish in a sweet sauternes cask and you get this incredible salty and sweet flavour that really gets the tastebuds tingling.
When we started the podcast, I made a promise that I wouldn’t start trying to come up with my own tasting notes for drams that I try. But I’m more than happy for others to do this for me.
And this one was the one that produced the best and wankiest of the night from one of our audience:
“Sitting on Aberdeen or Banff harbour, and you’ve got a tinfoil tray of sticky toffee pudding, and you’re getting that sea breeze, salty air at the same time”
You can pick this cracking dram up for around £77.
