- Raided Score: 92
- Publication: whiskyfun
- Excerpt: Whisky with character, attitude, self-respect, and individuality. The opposite of these modern one-note whiskies.
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- Raided Score: 90
- Publication: Distiller
- Excerpt: The finish wavers between vanilla custard and dry smoke. Adding water doesn’t seem to reduce the heat but it will bring out more lemon tarts and white pepper.
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- Raided Score: 84
- Publication: The Whiskey Jug
- Excerpt: Decent whisky with some great sweet notes coming through but it’s not fully balanced and missing a bit of depth. Feels really topical.
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- Raided Score: 92
- Publication: Whisky Advocate
- Excerpt: Licorice, coffee beans, brine, chili, and peppery peat in the lengthy finish.
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- Raided Score: 91
- Publication: The Whiskey Wash
- Excerpt: I can honestly say that I’ve ever been disappointed with Longrow 18-Year-Old official bottling releases.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: This is a really great dram. Its complex and delicious while balancing smoke and dessert-y sweet notes with ease.
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Intro:
Longrow, one of the three producers under the Springbank umbrella of producers, is a Campeltown distiller that releases various peated expressions. This is their 18 year old release, which is part of their core line of expressions, though it comes and goes under a Limited Edition banner.
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Nose:
Buttery and sweet. Caramel corn, salted caramel. Honey, apples and pears. Apple pie, almost, in that there is a nice bread-y quality (the crust), sweet apples and syrupy fruits (the filling) and some nice baking spices to round it out. Really nice overall. Not much peat in the nose, if any.
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Taste:
Medium mouth feel. No real heat. Sweet cream, rich pepper and a touch of brine. Smoke rolls in - delicious ashy, burning wood, faint peppery peat. Mild rubber note, but very mild. Ashy all of the way.
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Finish:
Long finish with really gentle heat. Peppery, lots of nice apple notes continue with buttery caramel and some tobacco. Really rich, grows drying but not bitter as the finish departs.
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Overall:
This is a really great dram. Its complex and delicious while balancing smoke and dessert-y sweet notes with ease.
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Score:
7
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources
