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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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October 12, 2022
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Glen Mhor and Neighbour
It is that Gordon & MacPhail are having a brand new Glen Mhor, whereas all I may discover in WF’s ‘Glen Mhor Field’ have been cobwebs. No untasted Glen Mhor left, so no correct sparring companion (I really feel disgrace certainly, inform me a couple of whisky blogger) however we ‘ve acquired assets, you will note… However first, this ultra-rare new Glen Mhor…
(Image Valentino Zagatti after we final met, in 2009; he’d have adored the brand new Glen Mhor! – R.I.P.)
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Glen Mhor 40 yo 1982/2022 (50.8%, Gordon & MacPhail, Non-public Assortment, The Recollection, refill sherry hogshead, cask #72, 174 bottles) 
To me, Glen Mhor means Valentino Zagatti, he who used to love the outdated Glen Mhor 10 yo higher than some other malt whisky. We miss Valentino Zagatti, even when I’ve met him only some occasions. And certainly, we did share some Glen Mhor 10 years outdated!… Let’s anticipate some dried meats, some tobacco, and doubtless some soot, straight from probably the most well-known amongst the three outdated Inverness Distilleries, Glen Albyn, Millburn (wink, wink), and Glen Mhor… … Color: deep gold. Nostril: so very vintage, ‘classic’, valuable, polished, waxy… That is like coming into an vintage store, filled with outdated furnishings, oil work, maybe bicycles and motorbikes, early radio units… The meatiness too is unbelievable, we’re having soy sauces, Marmite, Bovril, additionally suet, leek soup, outdated tobacco pouch, outdated leather-based jackets… With water: outdated hive, outdated books, library, furnishings polish, humidor, mocha, chocolate, artichoke, cracked pepper, skinny mints… Mouth (neat): however that is recent and vibrant! We’re extraordinarily removed from a dusty, drained outdated malt whisky that might be right here simply because it is uncommon (however G&M would not do this, agreed), quite the opposite, that is virtually a bottled lesson to new distillers. Unbelievable complexity, meats, roasted chestnuts, chestnut honey, beef jerky, tar, tobacco, chocolate… It’s gorgeous. To assume that they closed the Distillery for good just one 12 months after this glory was distilled. With water: oh, bergamots chiming in, tobacco, tangerine liqueur, dried apricots, very outdated brandy de Jerez… And numerous different parts. End: Jaffa muffins and valuable very outdated candy wines which have digested their sugars. No names wanted. Feedback: I am sorry however I did not know this was going to be this good. What’s extra, that is an extinct model, until new Distillers would… you possibly can all the time dream…
SGP:562 – 93 factors. |
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I am certain you noticed me coming, we’ll have a Millburn because the sparring companion.
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Millburn 1981/2004 (61.5%, MacKillop’s Alternative, sherry wooden, cask #353) 
Lorne MacKillop’s ‘MacKillop’s Alternative’ line has gathered some stupendous malt whiskies inside the final twenty-five years. Their very low-key packaging was and stays an enormous asset, as it will actually scream ‘it is the content material that counts!’ I might add that the reputations of any of the outdated Inverness distilleries, together with Millburn’s, have by no means been extraordinarily excessive they usually have been generally even deemed as being ‘soiled and random’. However with randomness comes luck… Color: deep gold. Nostril: a lot, a lot fruitier than the Glen Mhor, however it’s true that it is a lot youthful. Superior blood oranges, pink grapefruits, maybe wee whiffs of struck matches (typical), additionally mangos and papayas. Mangos and papayas! I do know some Glen Albyns have been showcasing this too, generally… With water: butterscotch leaping in, muffins, scones, praline, milk chocolate, café latte… Mouth (neat): probably one of the vital ‘tropical’ Millburns, with bananas, mangos, sultanas as effectively, angelica, genepy and verbena… And no extra struck matches. With water: as soon as once more it will turn out to be cakier and extra on butterscotch, shortbread… However the tropical fruits are nonetheless there. A sense of putty and paint too, then some pepper… End: lengthy and certainly, a bit dirty-ish, we might have mentioned ‘chemical’ twenty years in the past. Loses factors now, however between us, who cares, the Distillery was closed in 1985, two years after Glen Mhor and Glen Albyn, then virtually absolutely demolished.… Feedback: I am feeling the tears rise now…
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