North British 18-year-old (D.2003, B.2021) Douglas Laing's Old Particular The Midnight Series / 48.4%/ 0.7l
- In the late 2020 Douglas Laing & Co. extended its popular Old Particular range with the Midnight Series. The collection consists of heavily sherried single malts and grains, designed for late contemplative sipping.
Product description
In late 2020, Douglas Laing & Co. once again expanded its popular Old Particular series, this time with The Midnight Series.
It consists of whiskies aged in sherry casks and bottled in single cask. The label with a slumbering moon clearly suggests a contemplative evening sipping of these whiskies. The North British presented here, distilled in March 2003, spent 18 years in a refilled sherry butt no. DL 15144, and bottled at 48.4% abv in June 2021 in an edition of 788 bottles. The North British Distillery is owned by Lothian Distillers, a joint venture between Diageo and the Edrington Group (50% each). The plant has a capacity of 70 million litres of spirit per year, and the main mash grain is corn.
Nose : milk chocolate, maple syrup, milk fudge, brown sugar, coconut flakes, raisins, plums, notes of cinnamon, cloves and toasted oak.
Palate: caramel popcorn, milk chocolate, raisins, plums, apple pie sprinkled with cinnamon, cappuccino, a touch of nutmeg and oak.
Finish: quite long, with notes of toffee, caramel, raisins, prunes, allspice, cinnamon and oak.