Bottled around 1976, there is very little online about the St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch. And by very little I mean just one other post which is a listing for a bottle of this. A listing that’s selling it for $50. Which, after having tried several bottles of it, is about $100 too much (I would need to get paid to even sip this again).
“So Josh, why did you try several bottles if it’s that bad?” Because curious reader, I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t just the bottle I opened that was this terrible. In the name of dusty whisky discovery, I opened and tasted 4 pint-sized bottles I picked up while dusty hunting many years go. Two had slightly different labels, but they were all as bad as the horror I’m about to describe. Happy late Halloween.
Now, let’s get to drinkin’!
St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch – Details and Tasting Notes
Whiskey Details
Style: Blended (Scotch)
Region: Scotland
Distiller: Various
Bottler: Craig, Marshall & Co.
Blend: Single Malt + Single Grain Scotches
Cask: ex-Bourbon
Age: NAS (3+ years)
ABV: 40%
St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch Price: NA – Auction, Specialty Store or Private Seller
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St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch Tasting Notes
EYE
Pale straw
NOSE
Raw alcohol, stale caramel, copper, wet wood and yesterday’s cigar with a bi of damp fur.
It’s so light that it mostly smells of raw alcohol and regret.
PALATE
Raw alcohol, lemon cleaner, tin can, chewed toothpicks and the taste of last night’s cigar still lingering with the vague thought that you might have kissed a dog.
The eau de regret is much higher now and becomes a tangible thing on the tongue. However, raw alcohol still dominates.
FINISH
Short -> Imagine licking grain alcohol off of a metal sign in a dive bar in the early 90s. If you can do that, you can imagine the grisly nature of this finish.
BALANCE, BODY and FEEL
Balance? None to be found Body? Thinner than my patience these days. Feel? Would make water feel watery.
St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch – Overall Thoughts and Score
This ranks among the worst whisky I have ever tried. It’s somehow, simultaneously, so light it puts my senses to sleep and so foul it leaves a nightmare. There is nothing, and I do stress nothing, redeemable about this complete and utter abomination of whisky creation.
In my 15+ years of drinking whisky I have stumbled upon many dead brands and distilleries that left us far too soon. I’ve also crossed paths with some that deserve extinction. This falls into the latter category, 100%.
Harsh, metallic, and filled with little more than raw alcohol and disdainful regret, St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch gets a hail and hearty good riddance. People definitely woke up feeling like the worst version of themself after drinking this back in the 70s, it’s death no sad thing to mourn.
SCORE: 0/5 (so bad it doesn’t deserve a rating ~ “F” | 0-59)
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