Inchgower 1995 BA

sherry, caramel, spices, oak, pepper, icing sugar, apple, pear, quite a fruity type of sherry, not bad

Just opened and 1st taste of day. Nose fruity, whiff of heather. Taste pineapple, lemony, nutty, with a little too much sherry from the cask to overwhelm slightly the distillate. Wood from the butt noted. It seems this has been out for over 10 years and obviously didn't sell out. Overpriced?? Although yielded 582 bottles. My guess is too high a price for a 20 year old, Inchgower not 1st rate, big yield from 1st fill sherry butt and doesn't blow your socks off! 2nd taste no change. Will have to wait on this for sherry to evolve. Short finish so far. Will come back to it. Coming back to it. 24 hours later. No improvement. I think this is an attempt to get rid of a 20 year old Inchgower that didn't sell out. Tasted 48 hours later. Rating lowered. Good, not great. Several days later in November 2025. Color dark sherry. Probably 1st fill at 20 years, and the sherry influence is fading a little. So the Inchgower distillate is now showing. It's good but not great. But any distillate has the capacity to be great. So what are we paying this exorbitant amount for? Blackadder raw cask? Hah! A 20 year old Inchgower, quite worthy, but not at the price! A year later, almost. September 2026. Trouble getting cork out. In pieces. Very sherry. Too much. Sticking with 85. However, Blackadder. Fancy label. I now remember buying this. Was hesitant. Mostly because of price.

Lychee, tropical, mango, pine needles, pine cones, pepper, caramel

I was expecting a sherry bomb, but pleased to find more of the dram itself than the cask coming through. Seems to disappear in the glass - quite easy to sup. Well worth a try, but the price would put me off getting a bottle.

Sampled at the Highlander Inn, fall 2026. Apparently this is a repeat bottle at the inn that they repurchase occasionally. Char in the bottle, neat. This bottle is freshly opened, so this review may not be a perfect representation of it's quality. First impression, very mellow nose....

92 Points overall from me. Great dram, not easy to find anymore these days.

N22 P21 F21 B21

Nose: pink lady apples and sugar mice, starapple and soursop, fresh water chestnuts, mazapan, wonka bottlecaps, rosewater and coconut ice, pink fondant fancies and lemon cream, doughnut peaches and pez, icing sugar, mango liquorice and wax gourd Palate: syrupy, kola tonic and jaggery, baby's breath and elderberry Finish: perfumed, szechuan pepper and honeycrisp apple, layers of honey with astringency in the background, apple butter Tasted as part of a Blackadder vtasting with Southport Whisky Club and Hannah Constant