Aberfeldy 16 Year Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Aberfeldy 16 is the one Drinkhacker graded A- — the honeyed Highland malt given a six-month finish in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks that no other Aberfeldy gets. John Dewar's sons built the distillery in 1898 on the Pitilie Burn, a stream that once carried flecks of gold, to anchor their blends; Bacardi owns it now, and the 16 Year is matured in ex-bourbon, first-fill Oloroso, and refill casks, then finished six months in first-fill Oloroso and bottled at 40% ABV. Drinkhacker: mushroom on the nose, then chocolate, vanilla, toasty oak, and almond on the palate — A-. The Whiskey Wash's 12-versus-16 comparison finds the 16 deeper and darker: the honey turned to toffee, the sherry adding dried fruit and a nutty finish. Expect a nose of heather honey, dried fig, and toasted almond, a rounder, richer palate of chocolate, vanilla, orange peel, and oak, and a long, sweet, gently spiced finish. Honest note: the sweet spot of the range — the sherry finish gives the Aberfeldy honey somewhere to go, and reviewers rank it above both the 12 and the 21; for the Speyside-sherry drinker who wants a Highland alternative, and the gift that reads as serious without the price of an 18. Neat or with a drop of water. Aberfeldy, sixteen years, sherry-finished.

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