A Scotch With No Name
Clint Eastwood was known as the Man With No Name in the Spaghetti Westerns
America recorded the song, A Horse With No Name
Here is the Scotch With No Name
Just a number.
A bit like Patrick McGoohan in the TV series, The Prisoner - but he insisted he wasn't a number he was a free man.
Unfortunately this bottle has a number, but it wasn't free, unlike Patrick.
To add to the air of mystery, according to the label it smells of toffee popcorn, dark honey, caramel, dates, brandy snaps, chocolate, fruit cake and hot cross buns, but it tastes of banana chips, nutmeg, vanilla, figs and sticky toffee pudding.
It probably has got a name but I've no idea what it is, but with all those tastes and flavours, who cares?
It's a single cask malt. Which goes something like this, but probably not exactly like this. Most stuff seen on a supermarket shelf i.e. the big brands are blends. That's taking barrels from lots of different distilleries and mixing them together for consistency of taste over zillions of bottles over years and years. Most single malts are a mix of lots of different barrels, again aiming for a bit of consistency from that one distillery. A single cask malt is just as the name suggests. A pure one off that isn't mixed with anything at all. It has its own unique character which depends on quite a few factors including the barrel it was matured in.
Hic.
A Scotch With No Name
Clint Eastwood was known as the Man With No Name in the Spaghetti Westerns
America recorded the song, A Horse With No Name
Here is the Scotch With No Name
Just a number.
A bit like Patrick McGoohan in the TV series, The Prisoner - but he insisted he wasn't a number he was a free man.
Unfortunately this bottle has a number, but it wasn't free, unlike Patrick.
To add to the air of mystery, according to the label it smells of toffee popcorn, dark honey, caramel, dates, brandy snaps, chocolate, fruit cake and hot cross buns, but it tastes of banana chips, nutmeg, vanilla, figs and sticky toffee pudding.
It probably has got a name but I've no idea what it is, but with all those tastes and flavours, who cares?
It's a single cask malt. Which goes something like this, but probably not exactly like this. Most stuff seen on a supermarket shelf i.e. the big brands are blends. That's taking barrels from lots of different distilleries and mixing them together for consistency of taste over zillions of bottles over years and years. Most single malts are a mix of lots of different barrels, again aiming for a bit of consistency from that one distillery. A single cask malt is just as the name suggests. A pure one off that isn't mixed with anything at all. It has its own unique character which depends on quite a few factors including the barrel it was matured in.
Hic.