Infrequent Flyers Glenrothes 10yo
This one needed a plop!
Someone spotted it in the back of my cabinet in one of my videos on Instagram: This bottle, Alistair Walker Whisky #91.
It has been in the back of my cabinet for around two years. Why?
I don't know, because spoiler alert: I like this so much!
I bought it with some gift cards back in early September '22. I had quite a lot of money on those cards and I got this bottle and the Edradour 2010 Ibisco 12yo, which I opened earlier. This one though, was gathering dust.
This bottle is from the Infrequent Flyers series, bottled by the Alistair Walker Whisky Company. This series started in 2019 with a bottling of Glen Keith and also had a red label lik this one. Many more followed after that one and this is #91.
Undeserved, it remained unplopped until recently.
The whisky has a beautiful color and the liquid plays with the light if you take the bottle out of the tin.
This Speyside whisky was distilled in 2012, and bottled in 2022 at 62,8% Vol., which is cask strength. Just like all other whiskies in the Infrequent Flyers series, no colouring was added and it was un-chill filtered.
A quick dance around the glass leaves it coating that slowly tranforms in thick droplets.
On the nose I get sultanas, pound cake and melting cane sugar. Followed by some lemon peels, malts and a little oak. Then it ends in some dark chocolate and caramel, specifically Chokotoff.
The first sip is spicy. Caused by both the alcohol, as by a peppery note.
But as soon as that first punch fades away, sweet and almost tropical fruit notes pop up: Strawberries, honeyed oats, sweet pear, soft papaya notes and dates. A small drop of water takes the edges of and let me enjoy the fruity layers in this dram. The dark chocolate on the nose is completely gone.
The finish is quite long and starts with some tropical fruits , evolving in a lingering sweetness of honey and a little citrus.
