Whisky : Loch Lomond Inchmurrin 15 Year SMWS 112.61 “Crazy fruit”

Country/Region : Scotland/Highland

ABV : 54%

Cask : First Fill Ex-Bourbon

Age : 15 Year (Distilled 27 Jan. 2005)

Nose : Overripe tropical fruits, butter, and cream.  Absolutely bursting with busted and smashed fermenting tropical fruits as notes of mountain guava, passionfruit, and mountain apples wafted out of the glass.  Creamy tropical fruit notes came alive with bananas, soursop, and yogurt.

Palate : Medium bodied and oily with funky notes of a tropical fruit cottage cheese salad.  The pleasant twang of cottage cheese combined with fruity notes of apricot, pluots, and all variety of stone fruits.  Immensely juicy this was almost effervescent at times with notes of ginger and fruit salad.  Toward the end was a nice chalkiness and the fruity-floral impression of bath oils.

Finish :  Lingering notes of sugary starfruit and stone fruits.

Score : 7

Mental Image : Cottage Cheese Fruit Bowl

Notes : This was fruity, delicious, and strange.  The oily-creamy impression of cottage cheese gave this dram a really unique take on the fruit salad profile.  This was wonderfully bright and refreshing with a nice viscosity that just covered the tongue and a finish that lingered across the sides of the palate.  While this was the kind of slightly bizarre dram I usually love, I am not sure how often I would be reaching for this bottle.  Perhaps more than I realize... this might be the kind of thing you sometimes just crave.  It received a couple votes of best of the evening at a recent local tasting, so it definitely had its fans.

Overall, this was another wonderfully fruity Inchmurrin.  Loch Lomond is the Swiss army knife distillery producing a wide variety of different styles by varying fermentation times, yeast, distillation cuts, and stills.  Inchmurrin has to be one of my favorite house styles though.