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| Hello, that is one in every of our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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August 24, 2022
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Extra warming-up with
Mannochmore younger and outdated
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All the time pleased to attempt Mannochmore, particularly since we have came upon, fairly just a few years in the past, that the identify wasn’t all concerning the very well-known Loch Dhu 10, the Black Whisky. Keep in mind? A bit anecdote, final time expensive Charlie MacL., who celebrated his birthday proper yesterday, got here to WF Towers, I provided him a welcome dram of his alternative. He noticed an open bottle of Loch Dhu on some cabinets and requested for a measure. I say that is true dedication to the trigger! Washing out was then achieved with some outdated Clynelishes… (naturally)
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| An actual fortune at Bonhams’ again in 2018, £500 for this lot -> |
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Mannochmore 12 yo 2010/2022 (50%, Thompson Bros., 314 bottles) 
The Nice Noticed Woodpecker is Mannochmore’s official animal inside Diageo’s Flora & Fauna sequence, so I discover it cool that the Bros. would have put an identical (I believe) chook on this pretty label. Color: white wine. Nostril: malt whisky completely au naturel, combining recent bread and truffles, porridge, kougelhopf, cupcake (or was it a muffin, FZ?) plus touches of pencil lead and recent cement and plaster. With water: extra recent plaster and chalk, dough roll, baker’s yeast, leaven, grist… Mouth (neat): a fairly uncommon grassy spiciness for starters, round tarragon and sage, basil, plus pine needles, cinnamon, bone-dry fino, then inexperienced pears and apples, with touches of juniper after which a fairly rounder section on sweeter breads. With water: similar, with just a little bitterness. Extra pine needles and fir-bud liqueur. End: fairly lengthy, with some citrus popping out. Grapefruit pores and skin (that is filled with wholesome molecules, they are saying). Feedback: for my part, a few of the finest inside this austere, barely demanding type.
SGP:461 – 84 factors. |
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Mannochmore 1990/2021 (45.1%, OB, Prima & Ultima Third Launch, refill cask and untreated virgin European oak, 317 bottles, 2022)
There’s been a reasonably good 1990 inside the Particular Releases in 2016 (WF 85) however an earlier younger ‘Supervisor’s Selection’ 1998/2009 has been much more to my liking (WF 87). The older 18 yo ‘Supervisor’s Dram’, bottled 1997, was actually good too (WF 83). This very one first spent just a little time in refill and bought then re-racked into ‘extremely energetic virgin European Oak for nearly three a long time’ in line with the official literature. Color: reddish amber. Nostril: bourbon! Full with excessive varnish, nail polish, grated coconut and heat fresh-sawn hardwoods, in addition to a skinny slice of pumpernickel. I would even dare point out rye bread. Truthfully, that is fairly very Pappy-y. What’s significantly fascinating is the truth that the oak had not been ‘handled’, so not charred and even toasted (I suppose). Now they needed to warmth it up when coopering it, no? However that should not qualify as some ‘therapy’. Mouth: a a lot spicier bourbon. A bit excessive, very piney, additionally with cardamom seeds and glass of natural bitter. Dandelion root? Or there, Underberg? End: very lengthy. As soon as the bitterness has been tamed, some simpler notes of tamarind jam and softer liquorice would come by means of. Chicory espresso too (that is rooty as effectively). Feedback: fascinating ‘inversed’ proposition, the alternative of the standard cognac method, first virgin, then refill for an extended time.
SGP:371 – 84 factors. |
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