Pineapple pizza (or Pizza Hawaii as we like to call it in the Netherlands) is a delicate issue lately, but what if there’s a single malt who reminds you of that? Is that even allowed?

What we have here is a Single Cask (Old) Pulteney that has matured on a bourbon hogshead for 12 years, bottled by WM Cadenhead with an ABV of 55.1%. I bought a couple of Cadenhead’s samples and decided to buy a bottle of the one I liked most. The other contestants were Teaninich 10yo, Glen Old 11y and Glenrothes 15yo. I spent an evening comparing the four, but it wasn’t a hard decision, the Pulteney stood out the most:

I haven’t tasted many official bottlings of Old Pulteney, the ones I tasted didn’t leave a big impression, so it was nice to add my first Pulteney to the collection!