Yamazaki 25 year

A beautiful, dark amber color is achieved through the long maturation in sherry casks.

The nose is developing lots of flavors, but mostly a very strong "sweet" tone. Initially fruity notes of strawberry, pear and citrus express and give way to wooded and slightly smoky flavor, wrapped in a fine note of honey.

The complexity is also expressing in the palate with still in first the fruity flavors, then the wooded and ripe fruits ones such as quince. The texture is very balanced, rich, round and very smooth, it's almost a "soft." whisky.

A long final to finish in style this experience with the gradual disappearance of fruit and bitter notes appear due to a small amount of whisky aged in mizunara casks in the composition of this single malt. Then notes of hazelnuts, roasted cocoa and pepper softly appear.

The Yamazaki 25 year old is by far my favorite single malt, perfectly balanced, complex, rich and full of the typical aromas of whisky aged in sherry casks. Despite its unreasonable price, I would gladly recommend to taste this sublime whisky which marries beautifully with a square of 70% pure cocoa chocolate.