This Speyside Blended Malt is classified as a tea-spooned whisky because the distillery can’t be named, but majbe the small manor on the label of this ‘ Le Gus’t’ bottling hints towards another manor in a famous Speyside estate, responsible for the biggest part of this whisky?

Speyside Blended Malt 30 yo 1988 (53,7%, Le Gus’t 2019, sherry butt #15A/105, 518 btl.)

Nose: it’s the classic, dry, full-bodied sherry with tobacco leaves, walnuts and caramel brioche. Brownies, hints of hay, dried mushroom and burnt wood. Quite autumnal, very good. Mouth: quite punchy, still fairly dry on cigar leaves,...