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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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Might 25, 2022
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157 years of Glen Grant in solely three whiskies
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| There are whiskies you do not even must style to kind your opinion, supplied you’ve got received a bit of expertise up your sleeves. I imply, beneath your belt. |
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That is definitely the case with some Nineteen Fifties Glen Grant by Gordon & MacPhail, all you want to find out about is the color, perhaps the A.B.V %, and presto, you possibly can do your individual psychological cinema and align descriptors as if on parade, whereas solely questioning a bit concerning the relative weights of the primary clusters. Meatier or fruitier? Extra ‘marmalade’ or extra ‘raisins’? Oh and nearer to 90 or nearer to 95? The remaining is only for sport… So let’s do some sport, with first a wee warm-up lap.
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Glen Grant 1997/2020 (52%, Caora, cask #23806, 225 bottles) 
Most likely some all-natural middle-aged Glen Grant, stuffed with desserts. Color: mild gold. Nostril: class. Bread, barley, chalk, brioche dough, then lemon juice and granny smith. With water: a bit of custard and white chocolate. Banana cake and Belgian waffles + maple syrup. Principally, it received rounder. Mouth (neat): glorious pure, lemony arrival, as soon as once more geared in direction of chalk and dough and inexperienced apples after that. Immaculate. With water: this time it would not actually turn out to be cakier, it is simply much more on lemons, zests, peel and angelica. Lovely drop, extraordinarily pure (you already stated that, S.) End: medium, with the a lot anticipated notes of limoncello. Feedback: top-notch recent Glen Grant. Effectively, I choose the German expression, ‘Spitzenklasse’. It is true that Caora are situated in Solothurn, in Alemannic Switzerland. Hoppla!
SGP:651 – 87 factors. |
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To Gordon & MacPhail’s… What’s actually outstanding is that they don’t seem to be content material with releasing one other superb Glen Grant from the Nineteen Fifties, they’ve two! A 1957 for Mr George (Urquhart) and a 1952 for The Queen (Windsor). I am completely positive these ones too, along with a latest 1948 for Premier Whisky Hong Kong and that 1956 for LMDW’s sixty fifth, shall be a part of the small cohort of the easiest whiskies of the 2 final years (along with Aldi’s Glen Marnoch, LOL…)
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Glen Grant 64 yo 1957/2021 ‘Mr George Legacy Second Version’ (56.1%, Gordon & MacPhail, first fill sherry butt, cask #3438, 298 bottles) 
With out additional ceremony… Color: brown amber. Nostril: I am undecided we have ever been this near very previous armagnac. Begins with some fantastic chocolate and ganache, gianduja, step by step strikes in direction of mocha and macchiato, with additionally wee whiffs of coconut water, goes then in direction of Schwarzwald cake (cherries, chocolate) and juts black tea and cigars, however by no means, ever will get meaty. There, we have already received a solution to our digital questions. With water: certainly, only a few meaty tones (maybe Grisons meat, since we have been to Switzerland?) quite tar, cigars, and easily much more chocolate. Maybe a drop of smoky ‘whiskey’ sauce. Crushed pine needles. Mouth (neat): oh, skinny mints! Plus maracuja coulis over chocolate fondant and prunes. Or there, prunes in previous armagnac. Pine resin, caraway and cloves within the background. This one’s fairly tight and targeted this far, to say the least. With water: oranges and extra piney issues coming out. I do know there’s some sort of short-drink the place you’d mix triple-sec with crème de menthe. Curiously refreshing. A tiny contact of brisker oak – they might have modified the bung just lately (ha!) End: quite lengthy, extra on spicy marmalade, quince jam, a bit of pepper and juniper (oude genever), whereas some uncooked chocolate and a bit of coconut cream would sing within the aftertaste. Feedback: assertively immaculate, with out the tiniest flaw and with a really well-behaved oakiness.
SGP:561 – 92 factors. |
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Glen Grant 70 yo 1952/2022 ‘Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II Version’ (52.3%, Gordon & MacPhail, Non-public Assortment, first fill sherry butt, cask #381, 256 bottles)
An unbelievable bottle! We fondly bear in mind G&M’s ‘Silver Jubilee’ bottlings, particularly that superb Highland Park 1952/1977 (WF 94). I additionally do not forget that 2012’s Glen Grand 1952 ‘Diamond Jubilee’ had been a bit of extra fragile (WF 88). Color: full gold. Nostril: gentler, mellower, extra floral and extra honeyed, extra natural, most likely subtler and extra elegant than the 1957. I discover it quite weird that my poor French thoughts would quite consider Helen Mirren (who performed the Queen in cinemas) than of the Queen herself. An entire bouquet of meadow flowers, additionally easy dandelions, acacia, acacia honey, beeswax, quinces, mullein flowers, golden sultanas… That is superb, I might have thought it might be a type of stunners distilled within the early Nineteen Seventies. 1972 anybody? With water: extra quince and extra spearmint, woodruff, wormwood, honeydew… Mouth (neat): sport set and match, I might say I like this subtler one even (a bit of) higher than the very good 1957. You’d nearly consider it was made by bees (why not Buckingham’s?) as I am discovering huge quantities of beeswax, honey, pollen, pinewood after which some bitterer propolis. Chewing heavier chlorophyll gum. With water: a salty miso-y contact over mead and orange sherbet, plus the entire traditional honeyed cortege, and an previous apple. End: lengthy, nonetheless vibrant and recent, nearly refreshing! Pretty honeyed and mentholy aftertaste, with an anticipated lingering pepperiness. Very black tea. Feedback: most likely the youngest-tasting 70-years-old spirit I’ve ever tried, together with cognacs, armagnacs and calvados. To The Queen, To Helen Mirren (they may by no means let me enter the nation once more), and to the good of us at Gordon & MacPhail (I am going to undergo Scotland then!)
SGP:651 – 93 factors. |
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