LIDL has unveiled its newest malt whisky simply in time for the festive season.
The grocery store chain launched Ben Bracken – a 19-year-old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (70cl, 43% ABV) – for simply £39.99.
The model says the restricted version beverage is just available in shops whereas shares final.
Whisky professional Blair Bowman labelled the one malt as “wealthy, fruity, and sooty.”
He famous the nostril of salty and candy smoke, fruity, spiced flavours and lengthy, lingering end.
Blair added: “That is one other cracker of a whisky from Lidl. It is wealthy, fruity, and sooty, finest served by a roaring fire on a chilly, winter’s night time. You possibly can’t go incorrect with this warming, wintery malt.
“The intense amber liquid has a nostril paying homage to indulgent s’mores, with malty digestives and marshmallows, whereas the palette options darkish chocolate and lashings of black cherry jam.”
Often known as “The Queen of the Hebrides”, Islay is famed for a smoky, peaty type of whisky, which comes from malting barley over burning peat.
Earlier this 12 months, we advised how thriller surrounds the id of a feminine whisky lover who has spent £16million on only one cask of 47-year-old single malt at public sale.
The world document tipple, generally known as Cask No. 3, was produced in 1975 by Scotland’s Ardbeg distillery on the isle of Islay.
The earlier most costly cask was a comparatively low cost £1million, set simply months earlier for a 1988 Macallan.
The Ardbeg keg, snapped up by a girl in Asia, is anticipated to yield 440 bottles, with the client getting 88 yearly for 5 years reasonably than suddenly.
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