Aberlour 16 Year Old Double Cask

The 16 yr, and 12 yr non-chill filtered are probably my 2 favorite from Aberlour.

Both the 16 DC and the 12 DC are my favorites. The 16 DC is on my top 5, personally.

Amazing how different this sounds from my experience with the duty free 15 DC. It can't just be "that 1 extra year"-- there must be something about the casks: Cask size? First-fill vs. reused? Proportion of sherry cask/bourbon cask? I'd like to know...

I'm very disappointed by the 16. I find it unbalanced, the taste of cask is too bitter at the end. It's not a bad whisky, but not a great one. Surprisingly, I find the 10 most balanced, more pleasant, like Ralfy...

Some claim that this 16yo is better than the 18yo. I haven't had the chance to try neither of the two, but now reading your review I'm very intrigued.

vrudy, I've not tried the 18y old yet, but from my experience the only bottlings to be slightly wary of from Aberlour are the Duty Free ones.

Picked up another bottle of the 16 yr this morning...Enjoying a wee dram right now, and it seems a tad muted than what I recall...Looking over the bottle, and cylinder I noticed it's now bottled at 40%, and not 43% as previous bottlings.

I have a bottle of the 43%. When I fell in love with A'Bunadh I bought each of a 10, 12,16 and 2 18s. The first 18 started ok but then faded quickly. A friend brought over a 16 he was given for making partner in a law firm. It was not a memorable malt moment.

I now have a set of 4 Aberlours of varying ages I don't know what to do with. I'll probably never drink them.

Nozinan - yeah the recent 16 yr purchase seems rather ordinary - no bad - just not what I recall from the previous bottle which was 43% abv.

Luckily the 12 yr Non-Chill Filter, and A'Bunadh are still solid whisky's.