NV Strathmill, Gordon & Macphail, Connoisseurs Choice, 46%
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Nose: playful and fleeting malt spars with the green toffee apple and delicate spice. Taste: a fabulously intricate delivery: as though all the atoms have not quite made molecules and tiny, buzzing flavour capsules dust the palate... the barley causes maximum salivation while the sugars grow in to delicate acacia honey modules; soft vanillas and more sawdusty oak tones ensure balance. Finish: a little late oil helps further the spice and eek out the sugars. Balance: this is just how Speyside should do complexity. Simply and irresistibly brilliant! 46%.
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Jim Murray, Whisky Bible
About the producer
Gordon & MacPhail has been independently bottling single malts for over 125 years. The Elgin-based company – set up by whisky-broker James Gordon and grocer Jordon Alexander MacPhail in 1895 – has been in the Urquhart family since 1915, following Gordon’s sudden passing and MacPhail’s retirement.