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$359.99
53% - 2003 - 19 Years Refill Sherry / 2 Years in First Fill Sherry Hogshead
Westport = Glenmorangie
88.67 Points Whiskybase
Producer Description
"A new bottling of that famously teaspooned tipple: Westport. A blended malt distilled in 2003 and bottled at 21 years of age and natural cask strength. Matured in a refill sherry hogshead and finished for over two years in a 1st fill sherry hogshead. This is spicy, darkly fruity and full of classical, richly sherried, highland character. No giraffes were harmed in the bottling of this whisky."
700 mlOUT OF STOCK
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87pts Whisky Fun
"Westport 21 yo 2003/2025 (53%, Decadent Drams, sherry wood, 228 bottles) [Four stars]
Colour: amber. Nose: quite a different kettle of fish altogether, here the sherry’s brought along tobacco, cedarwood, chestnut honey, forest floor, mosses, a touch of tar (no sulphur at all, let’s not get carried away) and eventually some modelling clay that rather recalls a distillery located a bit further up the east coast. Also chestnut purée. With water: it drifts back somewhat towards a more classical Glenmorangie profile, with stewed apple and cinnamon. So, it loses in originality but gains in balance. Mouth (neat): rich, rather spicy, even peppery right from the off, in the style of a goulash prepared with honey and candied sugar. We’ll have to ask our Hungarian friends whether such a thing exists. Also some speculoos and… rye bread! With water: we stay in spicy sherry territory, almost mustardy now, with pipe tobacco returning. Harvey’s sauce. Fine bitterness and a touch of cinchona. Finish: long, still spicy. Honey, pepper and mustard, we really must try that in a sauce. Comments: a truly distinctive bottle, one that stays with you, I think. By the way, the giraffe on the label, evoking the distillery’s tall, narrow-necked stills, is indeed Glenmorangie’s mascot. No, Ardbeg did not go with the hippopotamus… SGP:462 – 87 points."