Serendipity Supreme Blended Malt 12 years old (Ardbeg & Glen Moray) /40%/ 0.7l
- Serendipity is a result of the accident, which occurred in 2005 in the Glenmorangie blending facility at Broxburn.
Product description
Serendipity loosely translates to "everything is a silver lining", and in relation to whisky it refers to a tragic(?) mistake that occurred in 2005 at Glenmorangie's bottling plant in Broxburn.
An employee mistakenly mixed 12-year-old Glen Moray with 17-year-old Ardbeg. Glenmorangie's then marketing manager decided to release a limited edition blended malt under that name. The whisky's "formula" lists about 20% Glen Moray and 80% Ardbeg, and 16,000 bottles of Serendipity sold out in the blink of an eye. It is one of the most "collectible" mistakes on the whisky market.
Nose: walnuts, vanilla, bananas, apples, pears, hay, hints of mint and chamomile and a distant whiff of peat smoke.
Taste : mild, breakfast cereals, bananas, baked apples, vanilla, milk chocolate and delicate herbal and peat notes.
Finish : not too long, malty, with notes of milk chocolate, peat and hay.