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Aberlour 12 Year Old Non Chill-Filtered

Scotch Single Malt Speyside
Age
12 years
ABV
48%
Introduced
2012
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

The shape of Aberlour 12 Year Old Non Chill-Filtered

This bottle's own signature across the twelve-axis Spirit Map — not the distillery average, but this exact expression.

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Rich amber with deep copper tones
Nose
Intense with dark fruits, prune, cherry and raisins, toffee, cane sugar, forest honey, ginger, cinnamon, white pepper, marzipan, hint of spearmint
Palate
Wonderfully full-bodied, rich and sweet with medium sherry flavours, dried fruit, raisins, dates, blackcurrant, Christmas spices, mint, gentle heat. Balanced by fresher ex-bourbon notes of ripe apple, zesty lemon, orange and vanilla
Finish
Medium to long, turning drier with nutty oak flavours, soft tannins and dark chocolate

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • American Oak Ex-Bourbon Barrels & Spanish Oak Ex-Oloroso Sherry Butts

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