Shackleton

Hey guys! How's it going?🙂.
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Time for a an interesting review. This is not a single malt, but it's a good blended malt with a very nice and interesting story.
I remember I tried this one a couple years ago in London but didn't have a bottle of it, so when I saw it online I didn't think twice about buying one 😊.
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The story:
Sir Ernest Shackleton is known as much for his camaraderie and leadership as he is for his adventurous spirit. In 1907, he set sail on his ship, the Nimrod, to lead his first expedition. A quest with one goal, to become the first man to reach the South Pole, Sir Ernest and his team reached further south than anyone before them – but on January 9th 1909, faced with bitter winds and an exhausted crew, he turned back rather than risk the lives of his team.
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In 1914, he set off again, this time his sights set on traversing Antarctica for the first time. He had reached 88°23' south, only 97 miles from the Pole.
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It was with whisky that Sir Ernest brought his crew together to toast wives and sweethearts, celebrate birthdays and above all foster a sense of team spirit that led them to succeed against the hardest of odds.
After its discovery frozen in the ice, world renowned Master Blender, Richard Paterson, carried out painstaking analysis to re-create this antique whisky, and used this as the foundation to create Shackleton – a modern Blended Malt with ice in its DNA.
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Here is my review:.
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Nose: Brown sugar and cinnamon, vanilla, ginger, apples. Very light smoke.
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Palate: Honey rich with apples and orange, mango and subtle smokey notes.
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Finish: Butterscotch and orange, Crème Brûlée and a hint of smoke.
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It's an ok blended malt scotch whisky, though I think it lacks complexity. The story seems to be more intriguing than the scotch to be honest. They can't all be winners 😄.
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Andrei Muresan

My name is Andrei, Andrei-Paul Muresan. I’m an IT professional, born in the wonderful year of 1982, in the heart of Transylvania (for people who don’t know, the heart of Transylvania is a city called Cluj-Napoca, located in Eastern Europe, in Romania to be more exact). Here’s a photo of me, just to put a face to the name 😉 I mentioned Transylvania because most people are more likely to know where Transylvania is and not where Romania is 🙂 oh and by the way, vampires, they’re just ghost stories, sorry to disappoint everybody. As you might expect, given my profession, I’m passionate about technology and everything that surrounds it, but I am also a great spirits fan, and when I say spirits I mean scotch, whisk(e)y and cognac, and I also enjoy a good cigar (I never say no to a good cigar). I like to mix all that with a good tune and also a good game, I own a couple of game consoles. I am, by no means, an expert in the scotch/whisk(e)y/cognac/cigar world, but I am keen on learning everything there is to know about it, so I’m launching an invitation to you, to join me in this virtual journey as we learn together.

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