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| Hello, that is one in all our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 14, 2022
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Not the Macallan thoughts you, relatively a type of distinctive, if not usually completely chic, peerless, matchless previous Glen Grants by Gordon & MacPhail that already gave us a lot pleasure. Document-breakers in your glass relatively than at auctions or in press releases! What’s extra, this one, if I am not mistaken, would be the oldest Glen Grant we have ever tried.
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I additionally imagine it is from a type of casks that many whisky lovers have been marvelling at for many years whereas visiting G&M’s warehouses. I even imagine many people really knew this very cask, you understand, first row on the best, ground stage (or was it one other one?) I can inform you that after having solely ‘dreamt’ of making an attempt its content material someday, and pestered G&M’s very partaking reps with dozens of questions ‘they could not presumably have commented on’, having it in flesh in your wee tulip glass looks like a form of life achievement. Now, discover a sparring companion. Nicely, I selected one other Glen Grant, naturally, however one which as an alternative of stemming from essentially the most old style, severe and revered previous homes in Scotland, comes from a type of very profitable new DNVBs (digital native vertical manufacturers), specifically our pricey pal The WhiskySponge. Allow us to proceed…
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Glen Grant 26 yo 1995/2021 (50.6%, WhiskySponge, 328 bottles) 
This was The Sponge’s forty second bottling. And we all know he enjoys his Glen Grants (together with very previous ones by G&M, by the way in which). Color: between white wine and straw. Nostril: I am not dreaming, that is relatively ‘old-school’ Glen Grant, definitely fatter, oilier, additionally extra mineral and flinty than different present choices. It’s then geared in direction of the extra frequent vanilla, barley and ripe apples and pears, with out departing from its mineral oiliness. With water: nice, with fantastic mentholy herbs this time and extra chalky limoncello, in addition to inexperienced fruits. Greengages, naturally, gooseberries, bits of contemporary rhubarb… Should not we point out kiwi too? Mouth (neat): chalky lemons, you may nearly name this ‘a Scottish mojito’. Wee leafiness, aspirin pill… With water: extra of that, extra tart citrus a primary, then the identical inexperienced fruits that we had discovered within the nostril. Together with that fantastic delicacy I used to like once I was a child and that is develop into very laborious to search out, preserved greengages. Until you make your personal. End: relatively lengthy, on simply the identical mixtures slowly fading away whilst you’re contemplating having one other glass (in ingesting situations, not when tasting in fact, ha). Feedback: pure barleyness, maltiness and ‘correct’ Glen-Grantness. One other fatter distillate-driven one by the Sponge.
SGP:552 – 90 factors. |
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Glen Grant 72 yo 1948/2020 (52.6%, Gordon & MacPhail, Premier Whisky Hong Kong, American oak sherry cask, cask #440, 290 bottles)
Superb. These decanters had been crammed in December 2020. As soon as extra, the stable power of those whiskies by G&M is staggering and does present that even when are very previous, they continue to be in full kind. Now, in regards to the 1948 classic, I did attempt one at 66 years previous and one at 70 yo (the whisky, not me, tsk tsk!) and each had been completely pretty (91-90) whereas a really particular vatting, that 1948 + 1961 they did again in 1981 to have fun the wedding of Charles and Diana had been relatively weaker in my e book (WF 81) however it’s true that it had been bottled at 40% and that that they’d in all probability performed a particularly giant batch. Color: bronze gold. Nostril: instantly on candied fruits (plums) and jams, plus delicate mint, pine resin and camphor. Not a hint of previous age, nowhere, by no means. The one option to discover out is to observe all the next aromas coming out one after the opposite for a superb quarter of an hour, particularly numerous very fragrant honeys and flowers equivalent to our beloved woodruff and honeysuckle. In brief, it is the complexity that offers the age away right here. With water: as anticipated, hardwoods and fruitcakes are coming to the entrance. Cedarwood too, humidor, rosewood, some cinnamon, chestnut honey, many small dried dates and figs, and even ‘echoes’ of previous rancio. Mouth: superb, menthol, liquoricy and honeyed straight within the arrival this time, and not using a single off-note, quite the opposite. Some form of very previous secret natural liqueur. Nice physique by the way in which, very spectacular. With water: may very well be the difficult half, let’s examine… No, under no circumstances, with drops of lemon mint, mead, no oak ‘as such’, some tobacco, Zante currants, pear cake, tarte tatin… It is simply limitless and that, as soon as once more, comes with age. I imply, from Time. End: medium, this time with a tiny-wee little bit of oakiness (black tea), which is totally regular. Cinnamon and cedarwood, somewhat marmalade, extra dried figs and dates, plus maybe wee bits of mushrooms within the aftertaste. Very pretty, by no means drying. Feedback: naturally, we’d now ask G&M in regards to the numbers of casks of GG 1948 that they might nonetheless personal; and they’d politely reply, ‘we could not presumably touch upon that’. Obtained to like G&M. Nicely, anyway, in the event that they nonetheless personal sister casks, I am pleased to report that these will preserve (if I humbly might, ha).
SGP:661 – 94 factors. |
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