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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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November 14, 2019 |
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The Time Warp Sessions,
today Glen Moray Cadenhead versus Glen Moray Cadenhead |
And why not?! Oh and excuse me, that would rather be Glen Moray-Glenlivet Cadenhead, you’re right… By the way, do you know what’s particular with Glen Moray? Unless I’m wrong, they age all their casks on location. |
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Glen Moray-Glenlivet 20 yo 1998/2019 (52.2%, Cadenhead, Single Cask, bourbon hogshead, 234 bottles) 
Colour: straw. Nose: rather typical. Pear juice, sweet bread, mirabelles, muesli… Not much else so far but it does what it’s meant to do, be a good all-rounder. With water: shortbread and butterscotch, the indefatigable duo. Mouth (neat): unquestionably very good, if a little simple and straightforward. Cakes, raisins, good world chardonnay, a little sweet oak indeed, some panettone, and a drop of any of those whisky-liqueurs-they-make-for-tourists-and-thirsty-old-ladies. With water: goes a little more towards good sweet beers, cakes, perhaps a little corn syrup or something, with a wee feeling of bourbon. High rye content? Just wondering… Finish: medium, very cake-y, with some honey and maple syrup. Comments: super good, tell your friends it’s small-batch bourbon, some might well fall into the trap and owe you a round. De nada.
SGP:551 - 86 points. |
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Glen Moray-Glenlivet 32 yo 1962/1995 (55.8%, Cadenhead, Authentic Collection, for Barrique Wine Chicago, sherrywood) 
A 1962/1989 Black Dumpy had been pretty perfect when I tried it in 2008 (WF 90), but all 1962s were superb. The golden years of Scotch. Glenmo’s MacDonald & Muir had already installed the new stills in 1962, as apparently, they did that in 1958. Colour: gold. Nose: amazing, with beeswax, raisins, cigarette tobacco, mead, heather honey, with this fatter richness that older distillates used to display, as well as an awesome wood smoke. Old Glen Grants spring to mind if you really need comparisons. Also whiffs of old books and some kind of smoky dough. With water: ooh, marrow and honey stewed in orange juice, with a little mutton fat and myriads of flowers and tiny herbs. We’re almost in the Middle-East, ready for a fantastic banquet. Mouth (neat): sublime! Resins, menthol, liquorice, chestnut and pine honeys, marmalade… Oh hell, please call the Anti-Maltoporn Brigade, and subito! With water: just make sure you don’t add too much water, but if you only add one or three drops, it’s The Birth of Venus in your glass. Kind of. Finish: long, on resinous honey and, again, tons of tinier flavours. Resins, waxes, fruits, flowers… Comments: Glen Moray was huge in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ever checked their old OBs? Very impressed.
SGP:661 - 93 points. |
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