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Clynelish 12 Year Old The Wildcats Golden Gaze Special Release 2022

Scotch Single Malt Highland
Age
12 years
ABV
58.5%
Introduced
2022
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Deep amber-gold with mahogany sherry tones; full body. The PX and Oloroso double maturation creates significant colour depth
Nose
Creamy top notes give way to light yet complex fruity and herbal aromas with subtle suggestions of fruity mincemeat, tinned pears, and heather honey. Deeper, spicy scents of oak preview a soaring intensity
Palate
Very smooth, mouth-filling texture introduces a lively taste that is rich and wine-sweet overall, well-balanced by snarling peppery oaky spice. Water enhances sweetness, steers the smoothness toward waxiness, and rounds the flavours before giving way to spicy heat
Finish
Medium-long with persistent sherry sweetness, peppery spice, and the gentle return of the trademark Clynelish waxiness. An unusual expression that shows how sherry casks can transform the house style

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Double matured in PX and Oloroso sherry casks

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