\nBell’s Original: 7.56 \u00b1 0.69 on 8 reviews ($)
\nBlack Bottle (after 2013): 8.02 \u00b1 0.45 on 13 reviews ($$)
\nCatto’s Rare Old: 8.00 \u00b1 0.69 on 5 reviews ($)
\nCutty Sark: 7.53 \u00b1 0.46 on 15 reviews ($)
\nCutty Sark Prohibition: 8.48 \u00b1 0.45 on 15 reviews ($$)<\/strong>
\nCutty Sark Storm: 8.04 \u00b1 0.48 on 8 reviews ($)
\nDewar’s 12yo: 7.95 \u00b1 0.36 on 14 reviews ($$)
\nDewar’s White Label: 7.60 \u00b1 0.70 on 16 reviews ($$)
\nFamous Grouse: 7.67 \u00b1 0.57 on 21 reviews ($)
\nFamous Grouse Gold Reserve 12yo: 8.46 \u00b1 0.30 on 10 reviews ($$)
\nGrand Macnish: 7.86 \u00b1 0.45 on 8 reviews ($)
\nGrant’s Family Reserve Blended: 7.70 \u00b1 0.64 on 14 reviews ($)
\nGrant’s 12yo: 8.46 \u00b1 0.43 on 5 reviews ($$)
\nJ&B Rare: 6.95 \u00b1 1.11 on 13 reviews ($)
\nJohnnie Walker Red Label: 7.42 \u00b1 0.61 on 23 reviews ($)
\nTeacher’s Highland Cream: 7.87 \u00b1 0.73 on 12 reviews ($)<\/p>\n
Let’s see what I find in the glass.<\/p>\n
Nose<\/strong>: Wow, that’s a lot of butterscotch. Toffee too. Butter caramels. Condensed milk and fudge. Yowza, that’s the full caramel gamut. Creamed corn. Stewed apples. Some citrus. A touch of cinnamon. No real off notes.<\/p>\n Palate<\/strong>: Very buttery, with the caramel notes continuing. Maybe a faint hint of dark chocolate. Baking spices and black pepper. Not very malty, but great mouthfeel thanks to the high ABV. Also a bit of zing on the swallow.<\/p>\n Finish<\/strong>: Medium long. Stewed apples again. Some ginger spice – but really lots of pepper, both black and white. Faint hint of bitterness. Sweetness lasts the longest.<\/p>\n While nothing exciting, it is definitely worth an overall average score in my books – and represents great value for money.<\/p>\n Highest score comes from Patrick of Quebec Whisky<\/a>, followed by Andre and Martin, and Dominic of Whisky Advocate.<\/a> More moderately positive are Jim Murray and Serge of Whisky Fun<\/a>. Less enthusiastic (but not negative) are Josh the Whiskey Jug<\/a>, Mark of whisky.buzz<\/a>, and Richard of Whiskey Reviewer<\/a>. Rather low scores come from Ruben of Whisky Notes<\/a> and cjotto9<\/a> and Texacer<\/a> of Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cutty Sark is an entry-level blended scotch whisky (and one that I find is more popular with an older generation of drinkers). Not a fan myself, but I have been curious about this quite different small-batch version of Cutty Sark known as Prohibition. The name is apparently a nod to the fact that the brand was popularly smuggled into America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,180,18,141],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskies","tag-blended","tag-cutty-sark","tag-nas","tag-scottish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Cutty.Sark_.Prohibition.jpg\")
A bit of water adds more fruit, peaches and pears in particular. It tames the alcohol zing a little but not the pepper – and it keeps the great buttery mouthfeel. Peppery tingle continues to the end. Recommend a little splash of water to help with the burn.<\/p>\n