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Region: Highlands

Location: Fettercairn, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire

Status: Operational (owned by United Spirits - Whyte & Mackay)

General whisky characteristics: Light, meadows and farmyard

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Fettercairn, 1824, 12y, 40% ABV

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Glass: Spiegelau

Colour: Light brass

Nose: There's a lot of English countryside in this with crop fields and wild meadows. Also malt. faint leather, straw and barns.

Palate: Gently smooth. spreading slowly across the palate with those faint meadows before it sparks into a slightly spicy life with faint liquorice and then fades slowly away.

Finish: Medium

Overall impression: Pleasant, but not earth-shattering. This would make a good early evening dram or perhaps an accompaniment to a sligthly spicy starter in one of my gourmet evenings.