Inver House Green Plaid Review

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