Speyside 29 Year Old 1995 Thompson Bros

Speyside 29 Year Old 1995 Thompson Bros 51.7% 70cl

The definition of indulgence here: a 29 year old refill sherry butt expression from the Speyside Distillery. Bottled at natural colour (just look at that hue!) and without chill-filtration, this is a richly textured, bold whisky that offers an abundance of dried and tropical fruit notes, alongside an array of sumptuous spices. This is a release that shows just how good independent bottler Thompson Bros is. Just 488 bottles have been made available. 

Official tasting note: 

Nose: Plum and wild strawberry, cinnamon, nutmeg, tomato leaves, umeshu, maple wood, dried red berries, pink grapefruit! Delightfully (surprisingly?) tropical, with green mangoes coming out. Blood orange and a little bit of rubber

Palate: Cranberry, fruit cake, those giant strawberries that you get in pick and mixes. Pink grapefruit again. There’s that earthy, woody, funky note that only really comes from a long time in refill sherry. Mushrooms that have been covered in brown miso paste

Finish: Quite long. Some nice sherry spice at the end, maybe even something a little Christmassy