A bottle of the notorious Cardhu 12-year-old Pure Malt, Diageo's short-lived and short-sighted solution to the supply crisis created for Cardhu single malt in 2003 after their Mediterranean sales and marketing team were too good at their jobs.
To capitalise on the Cardhu brand's unexpectedly massive popularity on the Iberian peninsula - where young people drank it with their preferred brand of cola - instead of just lowering the age statement or putting the price up, the hard of thinking Diageo executives decided to top up their limited stocks of Cardhu 12-year-old with another single malt that was in plentiful supply - the unloved Glendullan was chosen - and simply change 'Single Malt' to 'Pure Malt' on the packaging. An epic sh*tstorm ensued.
After a spectacular and utterly predictable outcry from both fellow distillers and whisky-lovers, Cardhu 12-year-old Pure Malt had to be withdrawn, and the subsequent backlash was so severe that even the hapless clowns at the Scotch Whisky Association were to forced to step in and actually do something. Entirely unsurprisingly, their solution made everything worse.
After faffing about for nearly six years, the SWA eventually came up with the deeply flawed dogs dinner of the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009, which messed up the classification of the Scottish whisky regions and introduced the stupid and confusing Blended Malt classification while banning the Pure Malt term - which was vague and open to abuse - along with the entirely sensible and precise historical phrase Vatted Malt, which was deemed too unsexy for modern consumers.
This idiocy in turn led to Compass Box's fantastic Last Vatted Malt and Last Vatted Grain whiskies, which were literally the only good things to come out of the whole sorry saga.
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Cardhu 12 Year Old Pure Malt
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The value is there for sure and it is definitely worth a buy, but there is a slight punch to it, bordering ever so slightly on that sulphuric taste you sometimes get with sherry butts. Not as rounded or soft as I'd have expected for a 13 yr old. Still great though.
Linkwood 17 Year Old Signatory Vintage Exceptional Cask 100 Proof Edition
Beautiful colour. Fruitcake and chocolate on the nose. I could sniff it for hours. The palate is rich full and well rounded with no sulphur or off notes. With a treacly mouth feel (beautiful legs!) and a long silky finish this is one to cherish. Incredible value at £70!
An exciting deep rich brown coloured liquid.
A compote of fruit together with dried grapes is lovely on the tongue.
Nicely sweetened syrup is evident too.
Invested in two bottles but will be ordering a third.
Great warming malt enjoyed by two. (One aka Pig)