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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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March 13, 2019 |
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The Time Warp Sessions,
today +/- 15yo Glenlivet |
Glenlivet’s a good suspect as far as these kinds of sessions go. Let’s find two that do bear the same ages, more or less. |
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Glenlivet 15 yo 2003/2018 (59.4%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice for The Whisky Exchange, refill bourbon barrel, cask #18/991, 176 bottles) 
It’s well-known that G&M have always been Glenlivet specialists, with their own fillings. Colour: straw. Nose: very interesting, rather all on fruit skins, including apples and walnuts, as well as a little paraffin and natural artisanal soap (Alep’s – poor Alep!) A little leather too. In short a rather austere and pretty introverted Glenlivet. After five minutes we’re also finding notes of beer and cider. With water: chalkier, with touches of patchouli and eucalyptus. Bidîs! A little Goa, perhaps… Mouth (neat): big sharp fruits this time, rather exclusively lemons and green apples. Some rhubarb too, well, anything green. Greengages, for example. Add a drop of honey and one of maple syrup, plus a droplet of tabasco sauce that makes it much spicier after three minutes. With water: isn’t this rather Longmorn? A wee touch of tomato. Finish: rather long, leafy, fruit-peely. Tense and sharp. Comments: very good, as expected, even if a little more austere than others.
SGP:561 - 86 points. |
So another +/-15 years, but a much older bottle… |
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Smith’s Glenlivet 1950/1966 (25° U.P., Christopher & Company London) 
A wonderful and very rare old bottle from wine merchants Christopher & Co. of Jermyn St., London. They had bottled various vintages of Glenlivet, some at cask strength, some at regular strength such as this 25° under proof, so 75° proof, so 42.86% ABV. Colour: white wine. Nose: amazingly medicinal! Camphor and clay crushed and mixed with lime juice, tincture of iodine, cough syrup, mercurochrome, and wet pebbles on a beach. It is to be wondered if the glass of these old bottles did not impart a few mineral notes over time. Some urban legend says that it did, which has not much to do with the taste/smell of light. Some menthol too, as often. Mouth: very firm, very old Highlands, dry and candied at the same time (touches of candied ginger), and much tenser than most old or very old Glenlivets. An obvious rooty/earthy side (our beloved gentian), some crystallised lemons, a touch of kumquat or bergamot, and assorted old oils and juices from old unlabelled bottles. Some manzanilla too, macadamia nuts... Finish: rather long, pine-y, sappy, medicinal, oily. Very salty aftertaste, it’s almost concentrated miso soup. Comments: is this really Glenlivet? Or was this the increased peatiness of the immediate post-war vintages?
SGP:462 - 91 points. |
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