Review #34: Glen Scotia 1992/2010, Malts of Scotland, 53.3%, sherry butt, cask #429, 199 bottles

the other Campbeltown. no, not that one, the other one.

The new packaging is hilarious. It's supposed to be, right? But this isn't an official bottling; it's an MoS
from a sherry butt. Could be good!

Nose is grassy first, leaning toward hay, then some dried fruit and a lot of soot come in. There are a lot of medicinal notes -- cough syrup and antiseptic and aspirin -- which are mostly pleasant. It opens up after a while with some meaty/gamy notes, albeit faint ones. There's a strange sweet note -- like a combination of molasses and rubber tires. Slightest hint of cherries. I find this all interesting and promising, but I'm not sure it'll pay off.

Sweet smoldering rubber tires. Very weird. It's interesting, but not particularly pleasant. The rubber really lingers, too. I'm surprised at how dirty/sooty it is, and it doesn't really have the fruit (or much else) to stand up to all that. Some maltiness and a little generic sherry nutty sweetness comes in at the end, but it's hard to figure out how to score this. I'll have to make something up.

score: 79

edit: score lowered. the more I drank it, the less I liked it.