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2nd May 2022 |
White Heather
21 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky was the
first release in the relaunched White
Heather whisky brand. A premium blend
which is the creative work of The
GlenAllachie Master Distiller Billy
Walker.
 In
March 2021 The GlenAllachie Master
Distiller Billy Walker honoured his
blending roots in the whisky industry
with the relaunch of
the White Heather
Blended Scotch Whisky brand which he
acquired along with the purchase of The
GlenAllachie Distillery back in 2017.
Billy relaunched the brand with the
release of a White Heather 21 Year Old
Blended Scotch Whisky expression.
In the creation of the
White Heather 21
Year Old Billy capitalised on his 50
years of experience in the Scotch whisky
industry, he sourced single malt and
grain whiskies from across Scotland.
Experimenting and blending them together
in the GlenAllachie distillery lab with
an emphasis on care and attention to
detail Billy created a recipe with a
particularly high malt whisky content
for a blended whisky.
The
White Heather 21
Year Old contains 47% Malt Whisky and
53% Grain Whisky.
The 53% grain whisky component is made
up of two contributing grain whiskies
with a 23% and 30% split.
The contributing single malts which
accounts for 47% of the blend is made up
of 20% Highland Malt, 23% Speyside Malt
and bringing a bit of peat 4% Islay
Malt.
The contributing whiskies were primarily
matured for 18 years in a combination of
1st Fill American Barrels, Sherry Butts
and 2nd Fill Barrels and Hogsheads. They
were married together by Billy Walker
and then laid down for a further 3 years
in a selection of
Pedro Ximénez Puncheons, Oloroso Sherry
Puncheons and Appalachian Oak with a
medium toast/medium char.
The resultant
White Heather 21
Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky was
bottled at 48% ABV, naturally coloured
and non chill filtered.
You will find
White Heather
Blended Scotch Whisky available
from specialist online whisky retailers
such as
The Whisky Exchange,
Hard To Find Whisky
and
Master of Malt
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White Heather 21 Year Old Review
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William
Morrison's Tasting Notes:
Nose:
A gentle enticing nose
beckons you with spiced heather honey,
toffee, raisin, a little slightly
candied apple and bourbon, some gentle
orange and lemon add to the fruit mix,
old oak grains and some distant peat
lurks in the background.
Taste:
Some lovely butterscotch infused with a
fruity mix of orange, lemon and apple
piggyback in on the grains and oak
tannins. Some sugar sweet raisin and a
very gentle mix of milk chocolate and
peat smoke add to the pleasure
experience.
Finish:
The honey, orange, old oak spiced grains
entertain well into the longish finish
helped very much by the flavoursome
bottling strength of 48%.
Comment: The very gentle peat
comes more to the fore with each
mouthful and so does the delicious oak
contribution to this mature single malt
and grain whisky mix, the sugars cling
to the palate and build with each
mouthful. First pour was good but this
won me over after a few pours, delicious
very easy to drink stuff and clearly
related in style to the recently
launched outstanding White Heather 15
year old blend.
SMW Scotch Blended Whisky Score 90/100
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