Name: Murihead’s Silver Seal 12 Year Old
Color: Light brown
Nose: Light barley, nuts, raisins
Taste: Barley, wheat, nutty-honey
Review:
Muirhead’s Silver Seal Highland Single Malt 12 Year old Scotch is a new one for me in my whisky tasting experiences. I purchased it without previously sampling it to try something different to replace my summer bottles which are almost all gone. After doing some research on Muirhead’s and did not find anything deeply interesting about this scotch. I wonder if that is connected to the quality of the taste profile. However, I did find these interesting points;
- It is named after Charles Muirhead who created the Glenmorangie Company. If you are not familiar with Glenmorangie, they are a major player in the scotch world.
- There are other expressions such as the 16-Year-Old and some Limited Expressions.
- “Muirhead” is a Gaelic word that translates to “Head of the Moor” which means the “highest point of the moor. A “moor” is defined as a tract of uncultivated upland or grassland area.
- Tullibardine is the distiller that produces Silver Seal is and is from the Speyside region of the Highlands of Scotland.
I did not find much else about this scotch and to be honest I am not going to keep looking. I was not very impressed with the flavor profile. It was not good or bad, it was just not complex or interesting. Silver Seal 12 a slugging scotch in my opinion. For a 12-year-old at this price range (or $10 more) I would rather have a Glenfiddich, Balvenie or Auchentoshan.
As the saying goes, “There are no bad whisky’s, just some are better than others.” That would be the case for Silver Seal 12.
Price around $50.
If you like it, drink it! – Christopher
If you like it, drink it!
