Tasting Notes:

Nose: Really beautiful. Fresh tartness, blueberries and blossom flower. Meringue, key lime pie, complex flavours coming together.

Taste: Sweet, a bit drying, amazingly rounded for this strength with a medium long finish.

Tasting notes by Serge Valentin (WhiskyFun.com) 86/100

I would suppose Aultmore are filling at 63.5%, just like 95% of the business. Which would suggest that this little Aultmore had not lost a single drop of ethanol during those 12 years of maturation.

Colour: white wine.

Nose: a little spirity and brutal, but I would suppose that's the high strength. Raw plum spirit running from the still (second run), granny smith, cut grass.. Water should bring civilisation. With water: some artichoke, pansies, grist, sourdough, bamboo shoots, cider apples…  we remain very, very, and I mean very close to Mother Nature.

Mouth (neat): extremely eau-de-vie-ish, also very malty. Cappuccino at cask strength (should that exist). With water: there, it opens up, on IPAs and plum spirit, mirabelles, acidic coffees, orange bitter…

Finish: rather long, eau-de-vie-ish, you could almost believe this was mirabelle spirit aged in wood. Which, I believe, no sane person would do.

Comments: the feel of terra firma, the pulse of the Earth.