Timorous Beastie (46.8%) is what we call a vatted malt, basically it’s a luxury blend of single malts from different distilleries of quality. It comes from the excellent independent bottler Douglas Laing (you will read more about him here, believe me, you’ll only ask for that). The “purists” that pretend that the single malt is the only real good whisky will have to accept the idea that today (and for some years in fact) some people make very (very) good blends.

Douglas Laing people know how to heal their image, labels and boxes are often the subject of a beautiful presentation and this is particularly the case here. But that’s not everything, what we expect first is good whisky… This one is a blend of Blair Athol, Dalmore and Glen Garioch. So, what does a 18yo good blend whisky look like?

Timorous Beastie 18yo

Nose: Fruity. Who said “Aren’t you able to give more precisions, dude?” 😐 Ok, we’ve got here sweet armoas of apples, apricots and prunes, alright dude? 😀

Mouth: Still, logically, on something fruity, mainly with apples. And some gourmet pastry notes, rather biscuits actually. With a touch of vanilla and spices, like cinnamon.

Finish: Average lenght, remaining, with a great pleasure, on cinnamon and vanilla.

Note: 87/100

You’ll find this one for 100€.

Thanks to Douglas Laing (and specially Mairi) for the pictures 😀