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September 12, 2022
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One other bag of whiskies
As they arrive, with none type of logic
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Mac NaMara (40%, OB, blended Scotch, +/-2022) 
There was once a Poit Dhubh 21 yo by the identical bottlers again within the Nineties that was simply out of this world. The Mac NaMaras haven’t been in the identical vein, nevertheless it’s been ages since I attempted any of these ‘Gaelic whiskies’. Color: gold. Nostril: toffee and fudge, sawdust, brioche and a distant trace of grass smoke. Feels a tad dusty however that is solely the nostril. Mouth: I quite prefer it, it is a tad rougher than your regular industrial mix (however is not the whole lot commerce as of late?) A bit of bitter wooden, cereals, bitter apple juice, sweet sugar, marmalade, cardboard… The physique’s a bit oilier having mentioned that. End: medium and a bit bitter and much more cardboardy. Not the most effective half. Feedback: a quite trustworthy and constant proposition however as many large-volume blends would do, it will nosedive in direction of the top and get dusty and cardboardy.
SGP:451 – 75 factors. |
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Distilled at a Highland Distillery (Westport) 17 yo 2005/2022 (57.1%, Watt Whisky, 198 bottles) 
An uncommon Westport bottled as a single malt. Color: deep gold. Nostril: massive desserts right here, cereals, something by Kellogg’s, a number of butterscotch, much more millionaire shortbread, then salsify gratin and even perhaps moussaka. Good enjoyable! With water: great milk chocolate with a contact of mint, After Eights, extra shortbread and scones, and definitely a number of butterscotch. Mouth (neat): completely wonderful, with an earthy type of mineralness, leaves, Mars and Twix, and even perhaps extra moussaka. Cheers to our buddies in Greece! With water: the most effective desserts, crammed with marmalade. Jaffa desserts. However after all, Jaffa desserts! End: lengthy, on the identical sorts of notes. Feedback: had been we the Distillers, we might be proud to see such an indie bottle bear our precise model identify. One among my favorite pretty latest Glen***gies, and that is not Glenugie.
SGP:551 – 89 factors. |
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Secret Speyside 28 yo 1994/2022 (50.6%, Les Grands Alambics, The Jazz Sequence, butt, 118 bottles) 
Miles on a bottle of whisky, that is just about like consuming correct goose foie gras and consuming champagne whereas driving a black Miura alongside the Riviera, no? For as soon as we’ll hearken to some music whereas tasting this whisky, which we by no means do, and that’ll be… say On The Nook (simply because it was higher recorded than Bitches Brew). Color: pale gold. Nostril: I am unsure we have ever been this near recent amaretti and maraschino. Would then transfer in direction of ‘paler’ fruitcake (pears and so on) and outdated vin doux naturel, maybe Rivesaltes, recent walnut cake, turon, sesame cream, plum jam… With water: completely waxy. A savoury aspect too. one thing coastal as nicely. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily excellent (what?) with a tenser aspect – you’d consider you are additional north alongside the East coast – and a few greener fruits. Severely, aren’t we quite someplace between Inverness and John o’ Groats? With water: excuse me? Olives? Brine? What is the trick? Do they do butts in Jamaica? End: lengthy, unexpectedly briney. Feedback: hope I have not made any errors or misinterpretations right here, however in any case, as Miles mentioned, ‘do not play what’s there, play what’s not there’ (he most likely added ‘mom***er!) Undecided that is a good suggestion with tasting notes, have mentioned that. Nice, nice ‘Speysider’ nonetheless.
PS I’ve obtained a really humorous anecdote with Miles in Good however I am going to inform it one other time.
SGP:562 – 90 factors. |
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Simply to examine one factor…
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Distilled within the Highlands 9 yo 2013/2022 (55.6%, Thompson Bros., blended malt, refill hogshead, 327 bottles)
There’s some type of cat on the label (come on, it’s a cat) so we all know what’s in there. Color: pale white wine. Nostril: these are by no means straightforward once they’re this younger, whereas they had been within the late Nineteen Sixties (however that was nonetheless the neighbouring distillery). Now the wax and citrus are there in full pressure, it’s just a bit slender, a bit limoncello-y. With water: recent wool, paraffin, chalk, grist and dirt. Basic. Mouth (neat): eau-de-vie de barley saved in a waxed jar that had beforehand contained home made limoncello. Or one thing like that. Sizzling younger child. With water: will get excellent as soon as you bought the quantity of water proper, which ain’t too straightforward to do. What a spirit! End: maybe not that lengthy, and possibly extra eau-de-vie-ish than older expressions, however all that’s solely regular. Great – meow! Feedback: en route for some 90 factors at 12 years of age.
SGP:562 – 88 factors. |
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Glen Moray 14 yo 2007/2022 (54.6%, Greatest Dram, Kirsch Import, 1st fill bourbon barrel, casks #5697+5699, 433 bottles) 
I agree we should always have had this one inside a Glen Moray session, however first we had been curious, and second, there is no Glen Moray session deliberate earlier than December. Color: white wine. Nostril: very barley-y, which could be very Glen Moray. Crystal-clean doughiness, sourdough, baguette, plantain, then apples and cherries. We’re extraordinarily near the uncooked supplies (keep in mind, that might be barley, yeast and water). With water: some plasticine and shoe polish, even some cleaning soap. Nothing irregular on this context (it saponifies bigly whereas we’ve not obtained a number of time). Mouth (neat): candy barley, plum spirit, barley sugar, finger biscuits and cider. Precisely ‘Glen Moray’, with no make-up in any respect. With water: some williams pears and much more barleyness. End: fairly lengthy and quite extra citrusy. Virtually hoppy within the aftertaste. Feedback: malt whisky as Mom Nature meant, would they write in good brochures.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Glen Spey 2010/2021 (59.7%, Or Sileis, Mercury Choice, bourbon barrel, cask #80057OA, 239 bottles) 
Similar, no Glen Spey session deliberate earlier than lengthy, that is why we’re placing this one into this hotchpotch. Color: gold. Nostril: identical model, phrase for phrase. An immense barleyness, much less grass than in older expression of Glen Spey, extra desserts, toasted bread and nougat… Properly, fashionable wooden improved virtually all malts, nevertheless it additionally made them a bit alike. What we might begin to miss is… asperities, as they are saying. Good savoury aspect too, even when this child’s ex-bourbon. With water: lemon squash and sourdough. Mouth (neat): uncooked, tight and sharp eau-de-vie-y barleyness. Sums it up, I’d suppose. With water: nicely it loves water, even when it will stay fairly easy and possibly just like the opposite million casks they’d shelter throughout the central belt of Scotland. There are 4 casks per inhabitant within the nation, apparently, so 20 million casks altogether. Hope nobody will ever want to make use of them as vitality supply. End: medium, sweeter, easy, barley-y. Kirsch within the aftertaste. Feedback: certainly, this wee Glen Spey for Asia jogs my memory of some kirschwassers that some distillers have tried to mature in wooden. Few asperities right here, nevertheless it’ll disappoint nobody.
SGP:541 – 83 factors. |
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