Country:
Scotland
Brand:
Inver House Green Plaid
Type:
Blended Whisky
Age:
NAS (Probably 3 years)
Alcohol:
40%
Colour:
Very Pale Gold
Nose:
Bitter Oak, Sharp Grain Alcohol and Apple. It’s not easy to identify this as a
Scottish Blend. It almost smells like a very cheap type of Calvados, the French Apple Brandy from Normandy. With
patience you can find the slightest hints of Malt, Toast and Nuts.
Taste:
Watery delivery. Bitter-Sweet with an immediate Alcohol Burn. Some Grain and
Toffee.
Finish:
Short, Sugary and Edgy with Pepper and Toffee. Not a very pleasant aftertaste.
I
added a couple of drops of water and the Nose gets a bit milder. But you
completely drown Taste and Finish. If you must, drink it without water, but
better still, leave it alone.
Rating: 64.5
Nose
17 – Taste 16.5 – Finish 15 – Overall 16
General Remarks: Inver House Distillers was founded
in Scotland in 1964 as a subsidiary of Publicker Industries USA. After closing
down in 1985 and 1986 and after a management buy out it was finally purchased in
2001 by Pacific Spirit UK, a global beverage company. In the USA the Blend is
imported by Barton of Chicago. It’s very cheap at around US$ 10.
Drinking Experience Neat: Not Satisfactory
Conclusion:
This is the cheapest Scottish Blend I know. And therefore you can’t expect a
great dram. It doesn’t taste like lamp oil like some of the stuff that is sold
in Brazil. But I can’t recommend this, not even for mixes. Dewar’s White Label
comes to my mind taste wise. And that was the lowest scoring Scottish Blend in
my rankings so far. Before I tasted Inver House Green Plaid that is!
Jan
van den Ende August 30, 2012
2 comments:
Lauder's is another blended scotch that should be banished to the toilet too!
Hi Jason, Long time! I don't know Lauder's but I believe you on your word!!!
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