Hello Shane! We don’t chill filter or colour our whiskies whatsoever. 👍 Full disclosure - we just missed it on the first label run, oops. 😬 🙊 🤣 New label for next batch has been fixed and is going out to shops as we speak. Cheers, Connal

Good honest review as always Shane. I was not blown away when I first opened the bottle but as I’ve had more drams I’ve found it has really opened up and improved a lot. I purchased it mainly because of the Ardnamurchan link and am not disappointed. In this crazy world of ever increasing prices for malt whisky it’s just refreshing to buy a high level malt content and well presented blend for around £30 (……and Ralfy’s whisky of the year !)

A sublime blended scotch - $32 usd - very competent - an absolute BUY! Label has been changed and reflects NCF/ NCA-- it's small but noted for those that look!

Great review Shane! I bought a bottle of this, and it is good for the price, but I won't be rushing out to buy backups or replace the bottle. I think the addition of grain whisky detracts from it. I picked up the MacNair's Lum Reek NAS for the same price and the Loch Lomond 12 on special for a couple of dollars more. Also picked up three Wemyss 46% blends, Spice King, Peat Chimney and The Hive, on special for around the same price. All of these I think are better than MacLean's Nose and I think that is due to the grain whisky content. By the way, it was your review of the Spice King 12 that put me on to Wemyss. Cheers!

I have to day it’s really nice. A step above your typical supermarket deal here in UK at least. A quality blend at sub 35 quid. Everyone should have one if they can find one.

Great review, & well described. Funny you mentioned the Kilhoman, I thought the same. I refer to it as a 'juicy' peat ( reminds me of juicy fruit chewing gum). I really like this one & will be a repeat purchase. Generally though I dont mind a blend if I like it, I do like the Compass box blends.

I purchased a bottle in Oban (£29) along my last trip in Scotland From my point of vue it’s a really good whisky and a very good quality value price In my country 🇧🇪 it’s not easy to find a bottle ... so I jumped on it and happy ... I bought a bottle the last weekend in London (£33) 😊 so now I can share more with the Belgian (Menno @maltymission and the few Belgian barflies )

I bought a bottle after Ralfs review. Really enjoying it. It’s good whiskey for a good price. It wouldn’t stand up against some more expensive whisky but can’t beat it for the cost… well… perhaps Arran 10.

Great review, Shane. Didn't connect with this one much, but it's certainly a quality pour. 🥃

Hi Shane I have been looking at getting a bottle of this whiskey, but I think I will be buying a bottle of compass box orchard house again, I really find it a good blinded whiskey, my current store has sold out and I'm waiting for them to restock it again. Cheers Sir and thanks for the great review on this blended whisky !!!

Dear Shane, I have e tried this whisky and I did enjoy it. In Italy, the Ardnamurchan Sherry Cask and their Ad09/22 are still fairly priced and thus I will wait to pick this up and enjoy the two former bottles. Your review is excellent and rich in details, I am grateful. Well done 👍 ciao 👋 S.

I think you've been honest and analytical in this review, Shane. Yes, it's a competently made blended Scotch whisky and it's nice to see such a thing bottled at 46% abv. Well done, Adelphi. Yet I find myself reaching past this bottle when thinking of a starter for a flight. There were some quality core range single malts with age statements on the market at Christmas time for less than the price of the "Nose" which provide me with much more bang for my buck and which keep me going back to when I want to start an evening's flight. In contrast, I'm simply not inspired by the taste of the "Nose." Like you, I hope future batches of this blend will provide some flavour which is not quite so predictable as that of the first iteration. Oh, and after all the talk of the importance of producing whisky which is non-chill filtered and contains no artificial colouring, then, yes, why on earth is such information not on the label? Beggars belief. Cheers.

Thanks for this review. It is pretty much in line with my judgement after finishing the bottle. Will buy smothering, if the recipe may change but Dienste not abmisst replacement. I do enjoy the Campbeltown Loch (yes its a blended malt) much more though.

Thanks for the shoutout at the end! Good things come for those who wait 😅till the end. Great review as always Shane… thorough and objective. Enjoyable… especially for the price but like you I’m not running out to get multiple backups. Looking forward to their age statements in time. Cheers 🥃😇

A very fair review. If one can afford the upgrade, I would just get the Ardnamurchan AD.

Good one! This was mega-hyped on release in Germany. Ardnamuchan are at least as good at PR as they are at distilling. I'm glad recent reviews, including yours, have put things in perspective. Here's a question for you: a whisky merchant who knows Ardamurchan very well argued in a German forum that it's not a craft distillery by his standards. Why? Because it is so highly automated, to the extent that it's been manned by one person. There's a program and it's executed, no real time reaction/interaction bewteen a team and the process. High tech, sustainable, quality-oriented, but calculated and predictable. No violet-flavored batches to be expected here 😅Craft or not?

Great review. I have yet to see this on the shelves in my market.

I quite liked the Dancey man :) got this on order. Intriguing by it! Lots and lots of hype, I am also late to the show

Thanks for that Shane. I tasted it at a whisky show, just after trying the Paul Launois finished Ardnamurchan, so it was harder to connect with then it might have been. Might pick one up now though as a no regrets whisky. On your point about Glendronach and chill filtration, just read an interesting article on dramface where they reached out to someone who worked there. Seems like it might be more nuanced than we thought…

It is a blend at a price point and it's exemplary at that price point in today's market and in that context.

It's a blend because Adelphi has probably enough mediocre grain casks. A nice opportunity to get rid of them.

Cheers for the critical review. I skipped this for similar reservations. I don’t know if it’s me, but I don’t quite get why certain things are being hyped as much as they are in the whisky bubble lately. I tried the Thompson Bros SRV5 and was really unimpressed. I’d take the Spice King 12 you put on my radar every time over it. What good is a decent price and the craftiest craft presentation if it doesn’t taste good? Sometimes I wonder if price and presentation are overemphasized because they are ‘objective’ markers of quality vs the more difficult taste. And if these new players get a bonus for being new and small, but surely their whisky needs to be competitive where it counts, in the glass? Regarding ‘premium blends’: I bought the Murray McDavid Rebel's Reserve Madeira & Red Wine Cask 12, which is 50% malt and 50% grain. And half the grain is even 35 years old! My fault, I know. A valuable lesson: I hate it and gave it away. I’m going to keep away from Madeira and red wine casks for now. I paid around 40 Euros for it, which made it initially interesting. Another discussion for another day, Murray McDavid is going into cask finishing overdrive at all price points which is a direction of the whisky market I could really do without. Who was waiting for a NAS Dailuaine finished in a bourbon quarter cask? Non-chill filtered and natural color and cheap though! If only it was 46% instead of 44.5% everything would be great. Sorry, didn’t realize I had a whole rant pent up!

Great review Shane! I didn’t live this “in demand” whisky but I know many people did! It may get better as it opens up more. Love your thoughts! Cheers!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this one, Shane. Haven't tried it with your remark on the grain content being the most important reason: not a fan of grain whisky. But maybe I am wrong... Slàinte mhath

I pretty much agree with your assessment of the bottle and with blends in general.

Excellent review

I'm really struggling with this one. It's super young and that grain component isn't doing the whisky any favours. I've put it at the back of the cupboard for 6 months....

Thank you Shane! You and Geoff made my mind up for me. I have not tried it but the hype was so much I started imagining something amazing, alas it's a blended Scotch, a good quality one but a blended none the less. Yes we shouldn't be snobs about blends and I certainly reach for some JW or Cutty Sark products when I just want a simple dram but the complexity and full flavoured feel you want from malts, you won't get in them. This is why we watch these videos to get more and more informed about everything being released which could be overwhelming at times. Cheers Shane!

Absolutely! A double bluff feeding our ego, LMAO. I respect any craft presented Scotch. But on my journey I don't think I have much to learn from a blend. I can't even bring myself to buy a decent grain whisky. I don't feel like a snob I just know that single malt is a more interesting discussion.

I'm torn on this one. In Norway, it costs the equivalent to £45. I think the higher alcohol tax here accounts for most of the price difference though, which is around £21 a bottle, I think that's twice the tax in the UK. So maybe the price is fair, in a way. But then, an Ardnamurchan AD costs only £5 more, which is probably way better value. The flat tax makes the pricier bottles better picks for value usually, whereas the cheaper whiskies are really expensive. How peaty is Maclean's nose, compared to regular Ardnamurchan? I've tried an AD and an AD cask strength, both peatier than I expected. Halfway to an Ardbeg maybe?

Thanks for the great review and, as always, for the fantastic deadpan humour you pepper throughout your videos. The points you raise around blends in general are interesting and certainly got me thinking. I understand where your comment regarding the identity crisis comes from, maybe I am a bit more optimistic. There is certainly a state of change in this space and for me, products like Maclean's Nose, TB/BSW, and the Compass Box blends are both a step in the right direction for blends and competitive vs similarly priced single malts, at least in my market (Italy). Haven't seen any of the black Bottle Alchemist series around here, but I now want to grab one if I can find it!

My bottle says pretty clearly unchillfiltered/natural color on the right of the label. Unless it's a different batch.

30 dollars is my max for a blend, This was over 50 bucks at my local store and that is way too much for me. I can almost get a cask strength Bourbon for that price. I will stick to blended malts and single malts. Great review, very honest.

A lovely blend, but I'm posting now as a warning & advice for others who also enjoy this drop...... Drink it !! It doesn't not last well. I've been slowly sipping on & off over 6 months. About half a bottle gone. 6 months on & its flat. It's lost its spring in its step. For now its like a blend between Caol Ila & Chivas 18 ( blend I do from time to time). Its not bad, but its not the same as the bottle the bottle I opened.

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It’s a pity Ardnamurchan don’t put non-chill filtered and natural colour on the label.

Great review Shane! To me this Blend is (to be honest) quite boring. For shure a quality spirit. But for me no excitement at all. Would always prefer to spend the 8 EUR more for the TB BSW 6. And would always prefer the Naked Grouse and the Cutty Sark Prohibition at the given prices. A propos quality price ratio: Did you get your hands on the 100-proof-series from SV? I tasted the 2015 Tullibardine and the 2010 Ardmore and I find these are not less than really fantastic. And I am very glad to have backup bottles of both. Cheers!

This is Ralfy's whisky for the year.

Not pulled on this yet, think I will give it a go at some point once the hype train leaves town

Not crazy on MN I really don’t get all the hype . See a bandwagon and join it 🙈 I Really like Ralfy’s channel and value his knowledge But IMO I really don’t see how how this is a “ Whisky of the year “ Won’t be buying again

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