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Mars 16, 2022
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Glen Moray again on the desk
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An increasing number of a pleasure to attempt Glen Moray. I imagine we’re having an increasing number of anyway, except that will be a consequence…
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Glen Moray 18 yo (47.2%, OB, +/-2021) 
We have already tried the 18 three years in the past and it did not disappoint. Time to attempt a more moderen batch (probably from 2022 truly). Color: gold. Nostril: malty bread, nuts, praline and mashed pumpkin, with a dollop of chestnut honey. Precisely as I remembered it (simply checked my older notes, ha). Mouth: the energy works very nicely. Good marmalade, praline once more, marzipan, with a wonderful maltiness and notes of bitter ale, then a lighter, albeit simply as bitter fruitiness that works very nicely. Wee touches of grapefruit pores and skin, maybe. End: somewhat lengthy, with a wee contact of bitterish oak that is nice on this context. Very Speysidey. Agency, straight malty aftertaste. Feedback: excellent, simply as I remembered it. Glen Moray’s change into a really strong drop, I feel.
SGP:451 – 86 factors |
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Glen Moray 2008/2021 ‘Manzanilla End’ (54.6%, OB, UK unique, Warehouse 1 Assortment, 1240 bottles)
Hurray, Manzanilla! I’ve all the time believed that each universes had been completely synchronised and that no clashes are ever to be feared. Trivia: manzanilla is a fino that is aged in or round Sanlucar de Barrameda. The identify manzanilla characterises the place the place the wine matures, not the place the grapes are grown (though in fact, they’ve to return from the Sherry triangle). Color: gold. Nostril: proper up my alley. Gentle walnuts and floor mustard, chalk (chalk is paramount), dough, somewhat recent parsley and cress. With water: splendidly chalky and mustardy. Love this (as I all the time say in these sorts of instances, convey the langoustines!) Mouth (neat): the inexperienced walnuts really feel a tad ‘amplified’, with extra pores and skin than flesh, you might virtually name this wee dram ‘Glen Moray Pasada’. Fairly. Additionally lemon, extra cress, leaves… With water: it might lose part of its focus as soon as water’s been added. Extra grassy and leafy bitterness, maybe, and fewer recent walnuts. Nevertheless it stays wonderful. End: lengthy, tight, tart, even barely acidic (in a great way). Feedback: I am a fan, even when this was solely a ending. Might we have now Vin Jaune subsequent time, I am positive homeowners La Martiniquaise have gotten the suitable contacts. And even savagnin (not ullaged/ouillé, naturally).
SGP:371 – 87 factors |
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Glen Moray 1998/2021 ‘Barolo End’ (52.9%, OB, UK unique, Warehouse 1 Assortment, 853 bottles)
This one from three casks. I’ve by no means been an enormous fan of Nebbiolo in my whisky, however I do know some reliable reps inside the firm want this Barolo over the Manzanilla. Color: gold with discreet salmony hues. Nostril: gone are the times of ueber-fast flash-finishing in simply any crimson wine cask! Certainly this isn’t un-nice (however the manzanilla any time), with crimson berries that behave and somewhat no undesired leafy tones (geranium, tomato or fig leaves). An excellent clafoutis and somewhat raisin rolls, plus humorous touches of overripe bananas. With water: the whisky’s maltiness is having the higher hand. Good butterscotch and toffee, plus somewhat raspberry ganache. Mouth: tighter, with some Szechuan pepper, stewed peaches and cherries. Fairly extra red-wined on the palate. With water: somewhat pine resin and blackcurrant buds, harking back to basic dry younger Barolo certainly. End: lengthy, grassier at first, then on clafoutis and Szechuan pepper once more. Feedback: not my favorite model however I must bow.
SGP:561 – 85 factors |
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Effectively finished Glen Moray! Maybe one or two IBs now…
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Glen Moray 13 yo 2007/2021 (56.9%, Oxhead Whisky, first fill bourbon barrel, cask #5757, 218 bottles)
No wine this time, should not we count on croissants, shortbread and beers? Color: straw. Nostril: I am sorry, however I am discovering croissants, shortbread and beers. Plus custard and pancakes, in addition to some white chocolate. With water: extra on leaves, inexperienced teas, cinchona, apple peel, weissbeer… Mouth (neat): beautiful candy bourbonness, pilsner, banana cake, tarte tatin, vanilla cream, jelly infants, then somewhat inexperienced pepper. A breadier background (wholegrain bread). With water: this time water makes it sweeter and extra on Haribo allsorts. Some greengage jam as nicely, which I’ve all the time juts cherished though it is getting arduous to search out any within the outlets over right here. The place is that this world going to? End: medium, clear, barley-y, with some banana cake within the aftertaste. Feedback: simply wonderful, as anticipated. Common in the easiest sense of that phrase.
SGP:551 – 86 factors |
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Glen Moray 16 yo 2005/2021 (50%, Hunter Laing, Outdated Malt Cask, refill barrel, cask # HL 18663, 322 bottles) 
This needs to be much more distillate-driven. Color: white wine (certainly). Nostril: extra kirsch than pears, mild vanilla, desk grapes (chasselas), recent cassata and panettone (hurray), scones, melon… With water: immaculate recent malt whisky, with nothing in the best way. Nosing a fistful of ready-to-harvest barley within the subject, at sundown (come on.) Mouth (neat): barley eau-de-vie, actually. Candy beer, ripe mirabelles, bergamotes… With water: excellent malt whisky. Barley bread and pastries in all places. End: medium. Maybe a tiny marshmallow, plus a hoppy aspect. A tiny glass of IPA within the aftertaste. Feedback: reminds of what Stuart Thompson (Glen Moray supervisor, then Ardbeg) as soon as instructed me, that Glen Moray was his favorite distillate ever. Certainly, over ‘A’ (he was at ‘A’ again then). I’d suppose the statute of limitations ran out however keep in mind each distillers used to belong to the identical firm again then. Sensible, virtually distinctive fully-natural drop, nicely finished Hunter Laing.
SGP:551 – 88 factors |
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