What's the best NAS SHERRY BOMB? 

RE: Edradour Cask Strength being NAS - I am aware there's a bottle-tag that includes barreling and bottling dates, cask number and ABV. The tag for my bottling is missing. Technically there's no statement of age on the bottle and therefore (in my opinion) I considered it NAS and included it in this video. There's other examples of NAS whiskies in which you can determine their age. The Arran (in this video) has the age listed on Arran's official website, but no official statement on the bottle itself.

Jeremy I like how you did those pop ups of the whisky bottles in front of each glass you were tasting!...........Slainte'

There are some Irish Sherry Bomb whiskies I’d suggest - Powers 12 and Bushmills Black Bush. Of course I think more whisky lovers should try sherry itself.

The Edradour Natural Cask Strength usually come with a tag on the bottle with Distillation date, Bottling date, cask number, ABV, etc.

I have the Aberlour A'bunadh batch 59 and 61 at the moment and they are both great. The consistency in the batches I've had is pretty good so there's no real need to chase them. The Glenfarclas is not my favourite and I haven't had the Macallan or the Edradour, but the Arran is a great value bottle at around £55 in the UK. Great show as always!.

That was a great review! Doing it over two days was really smart! Only other NAS to add would be the Tamdhu batch strength.

Awesome blind tasting, Jeremy! Love how you tried them again the next day. I’ve only owned two Abunadhs, a fairly recent one and batch 42 and both are in your face sherry bombs 💣 the 42 I drank over years and even after 5 years open was a hitter! Cheers🥃

What I enjoyed about this type of presentation (which you do paint an informative picture my friend) is that it gets me out of my comfort zone. I tend to stick with what I know and like, even though there are hundreds of Scotch Whisky that I have never had the pleasure of tasting. Keep distilling brother, well done.

Awesome two day blind. I really appreciate your honesty and willingness to put your palate out there. I know I would enjoy any of these drams if offered, but now I need to hunt down the Edradour and if I can afford it, the Macallan. The only two I have not had in this line up. Thanks for sharing and cheers to all the hard work!

I really like that you try to take out the subjectivity as much as possible from the tasting. As you pointed out, depending on your mood, what you ate, how well you slept etc your taste and preference will vary. Anyway, I might try the same flight, over two days. I have them all but the A`Bunadh #59 (have two other batches which I dont like at all the honest). Good video!

The Glenfarclas might not be everyone's favorite. But where I live (Japan), it's literally about half the price of the others (some of them basically aren't even available). Given that, it's pretty darned good, if you ask me.

Absolutely love that you came back a day later and compared. Very nice!

Hey Jeremy great work as always! Another beautiful sherry bomb is the Glengoyne cask strength. I highly recommend it!

Nice tasting, yet to try the Arran or Edradour. Here in Japan the Glenfarclas and Aberlour (rhymes with 'flour' btw!) are easy to find and also very reasonably priced compared to the others reviewed here so I have lots of experience with those. Interestingly Scotch is about 20 to 30% cheaper here than back in its homeland due to lower taxes! I guess the old geezers that write the tax codes are whisky drinkers!

Good review and good sense of taste. The top two are as I expected.

Surprised with the Aaron. Personally, halfway through my 10 bottle CS Sherry bomb shootout and the AA batch 66 is my fav. Batch 59 and 68 are in my 2nd semi final. Cheers Jeremy #letsgopalate. Go Leafs 🥃🇨🇦

What an amazingly cool concept, your creativity is second to none!

Superb video Jeremy. I know how difficult it is to prepare these videos, and wonder if your palate is neutral at that moment. I love that the Aberlour won, because we Whisky lovers sometimes geek too much and dismiss some classic bottles for trendier ones. Blind tasting is always very revealing. Cheers!

I bought the Edradour from the UK after Ralfy's review. My bottle is almost 13 years old. Based off the tag. Distilled Oct 16 2006 Bottled Aug 6 2019 Cask 348 Total bottles 667 57.8% ABV Spectacular Bottle! Maybe one of the Glendronach cask strength batches?

The Edradour decanter is most likely a 12 year old single cask (I already read the comment with the lost tag). They used to be 14 years old, but Edradour changed that a few years back, I think.

Hard to leave out Tamdhu Batch Strength, which is my favorite. I am unimpressed with Mac Classic Cut as it tasted very young to me.

Great idea doing the second day blind tasting. 👍

Great video. I love the Sherry bombs. If price wasn’t an issue I’d add Kavalan’s Oloroso Solist. Tho the Glenfarclas is my usual go to here as it is such a good price.

Love my 2018 and 2019 Classic Cuts. I see a few here I need to find and experience. You may laugh but I have a Glen Moray NAS Sherry cask that for $25 is pretty solid 😆 Cheers to NAS sherry 🥃

Very interesting video. Loved it.

I think the Edradour tends to put a tag around the neck with the info on it. The Decanter that I bought was a 13-year-old, so I'm surprised that this is a NAS. Great topic for a review!

Great video. You can redo it at some point, and include Tamdhu Batch Strength Batch for example.

got a bottle of Glenfarclas 21 for my birthday my 1sy sherry bomb i like highlandpark and bruichladdie

I have the Aberlour A'bunadh batch 66.l think it's great,good value too,costs 70$ in my area...

Another fantastic video and now I really can’t wait to open my Bottle of Aberlour! Not sure what batch it is off hand.

Nice episode but Edradour most likely is the 12YO or the previous 14YO Cask Strength. According to Edradour's website, TWE, etc, it has an age statement... lovely bottle BTW, one of my favorites.

My favorite NAS Sherry Bomb is by Smokehead.

Maybe consider reviewing the Glengoyne, Tamdhu and Glendronach cask/batch strengths. Thanks for the heads up on Glenfarclas 105.

Luckily I have 4 of the 5. But the Aberlour is Batch 61. Still have 2 bottles of the CC 2017. I really liked the Arran Sherry, get some nuts and chocolate. GF is good but would put last. Cheers!!

Instant LIKE : i agree, the SEQUENCE of nosing changes by the order of which they are snuffed in. i CAN NOT wait to retire, open my 1980-1990's stocks to swap a few with ya. . . BRora21cs, Rosebank23cs, Athol34yoCS, StMag23yCS, DeerStalker18, Talisker21cs, Ardbeg17, Craggan21cs65%, ... Abunadh-batch7-8-9...

The Farclas 105 is actual cask str. They blend it to exactly 120 proof there. ( it's of course not a single barrel. )

When I visited Glenfarclas back in 2019 they were fairly adamant that the 105 was intentionally blended to 60%abv at cask strength. It almost seemed like they were more concerned with the abv than the flavor profile. EDIT: Don't believe I've tried batch 59, but batch 067 is by far my favorite recent batch.

Aberlour is on my short list, but I can't help but think it won't quite be Glenallachie 12 or Bunnahabhain good--thoughts?

A’bunadh has long been my favourite my at LC and I’ve probably had about 15 different batches so far. Actually did a tasting at the distillery in 2014 and I picked A’bunadh over the 15 and 16yo bottle your own, straight from the cask stuff they available at the time. Probably going to have a hard time finding batch #59 on shelves anymore as my most recent batch is #69 (I call it the naughty batch... because of the high abv of course). These newer batches aren’t as good as the ones I was getting in when I started in the mid40s, but they are always interesting.

Nice list! I don't know if you have tried the Glengoyne Teapot Dram ? Batch 6 and earlier were reasonably priced and very delicious!

Here in Sweden I don't know wich batch the A'bundah comes from. The picture from the web shop is showing batch 67, bottled at 59.8%, but the text is referring to a botteling at 61.2%. They have it in stock at my local liquer store, so I'm curious of what version actually is on the shelf. Mabe it's a third variation. 🤗 It's coming in at $82 USD

Great video! Makes me feel good about myself for buying the abelour. I would like to know how the kavalan solist matched up with these.

It was also cool how you did the "Double Blind" tasting a day apart. Never seen that before. And of course you now realise the Edradour is a 12 year old and not an NAS. I actually have a couple Aberlour A'Bunadh in the bunker and I think those are Batch 61. Now I forward to the future when I can open one of those and revisit against the Edradour 12 . Thanks Jeremy for another great review. When are you and Rob going to start distilling your own whisky? I think its destiny........:))

Thanks Jeremy for your video, I am not sure if you put some drops of water on them. Did You?

Aberlour & Edradour have the same type of pronunciation, but you say them differently. Not a criticism, just thought it was funny. Either way, I've been on the fence about A'bunadh at $90 USD. I think that'll be my next purchase. Thanks Jeremy! Cheers!

Kavalan Sherry cask for sure!

no tamdhu jeremy? ive not had the arran or edradour but between mac/aberlour/glenfarclas id order them as aberlour,mac,glenfarclas. always found an almost brandy like artificial grape note in the glenfarclas that i didnt like

My very first abudnah was the batch 59. Really liked it. Unfortunately, every other abudnahs after batch 59 was comparatively let down...

The Aberlour is great. I'll have to look for the 59 and also the Edradour. The Glendronach CS would be another to compare. Any thoughts on this one? I have batch 7 and quite like it.

Hi Jeremy. Excellent collection of Sherry Bombs to recommend. (Not suitable for the Orthodox Jewish community though. However, Sherry/Port/Wine bombs matured in Kosher casks are becoming more and more available). Why do you say that they "lie" about the Cask Strength? Are you saying this because you are asking, how comes all the bottles within the same batch have the same ABV? Surely, each cask will have a different ABV? The answer is that the bottles do NOT say "Single Cask". If they were Single Cask then each bottle would state from which cask it came from and the abv at bottling of the spirit in the cask,. However these botles come from a batch of casks which are all vatted / married together to obtain a consistent flavour throughout the batch. The abv figure is the abv of the vatting of the entire batch! Regarding the Edradour 58.8% abv NAS. Your bottle is supposed to have a piece of card which is attached to the bottle by a chord and glued to a ribbon around he neck of the bottle. Yours is missing. I hope this has been helpful. Keep up the great job.

Interesting winners. Guess I should try these blind as well.

I would have figured someone who loves single malts as supposedly you do would know that the British determine ABV (Alcohol By Content) differently than we do in America. Apparently not. Next!

I'm so bias towards a well made Macallan Cheers Jeremy

Glendronach & Tamdhu Batch Strengths, limited availability I know.

Does Kavalan count?

Do the Aberlour batches vary that much???

Pricewise, i like the Arran, it's different with the saltyness but definitely not for everyone. I think it's the same with Edradour, more bitterness. Abunadh and Macallan are more versatile but the price of the Mac is out of this planet now. Overall, i'd say the Abunadh (depending on batches) and the Arran are easy picks. For me the Glenfarclas is the worst by far.

haha how about that teapot dram you reviewed before?

You clearly haven't tried Amrut intermediate sherry.

The Edradour is a 12 year Old.57,7% richt?

KAVALN sherry soloist bruh

should of done it blind