Club Members Edition No. 3
Region: Trinidad
Distillery: Trinidad Distillers Limited
Age: 16
Distillation: 10-2008
Bottled: 03-2025
Cask no: 239
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon
Still type: Column
Maturation: 11 years in the tropics
ABV 63.9%
Vol. 700 ml
No bottles: 231
Tasting Notes:
“Same question as when tasting Caroni, ‘heavy or light?’ Or a bit of both? If there’s no petrol-mango in here, I’ll eat my beret. Colour: reddish amber. Nose: petrol-mango (too easy, S.), freshly sawn orchard wood, peanut butter, and quite a bit of ethanol which initially gets in the way. Only one solution, with water: fresh plywood and new balsa, tar and coal tar, but also bitter almonds and two or three mussels in white wine. Yep. Mouth (neat): peach liqueur, mango liqueur, black pepper, basil, varnish, aniseed, liquorice, acetone. With water: slightly bitter olive oil, likely Spanish, then it unrolls into exotic fruits with salted liquorice. Finish: mango comes back to wave goodbye, which is nice. A hint of rose jelly. Very pretty salinity. Comments: let’s say it plainly, the mango and tar combo is irresistible. But how much is the Club membership? Not like at Turnberry, we hope.”
Note: SGP:662 - 90 points.
Source: whiskyfun.com