Today Mannochmore 2008


July 6, 2021

	Summer Duets Today Mannochmore 2008
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Mannochmore 12 yo 2008/2021 (55.4%, Fable Whisky, The Ghost Piper of Clanyard Bay, Chapter One, hogshead, cask #7040, 283 bottles)

I find this label utterly stunning, given that I'm a huge fan of woodcuts and antique ex-libris. Stunning, extraordinary, greatest label this year and so far… Hope they'll sell the artwork as prints. Colour: white wine. Nose: and the whisky's not half bad! Perfect mentholy and lemony and gristy doughs and breads, wonderful whiffs of fresh sourdough, lovely ueber-fermentary profile… This is almost orange whisky, as in orange wine. Indeed, homemade yoghurt too. Weissen beer. With water: we're bordering gym socks at times, but that's no problem. Fermentary, he said. Mouth (neat): and there, some lemony sweetness, limoncello, lemongrass, more white beer, dough, proper porridge… With water: butterscotch! Some wizard of cask management was involved here, I'd bet the farm on that. Finish: and there, praline, shortbread, beer, panettone, limoncello, tiny touch of soy… Comments: riiiiight up my alley. But Mannochmore? As in Loch Dhu?
SGP:461 - 90 points.
PS: isn't that rather the hound of the Baskervilles?

Good, let's select some other wizards of wood technology for a proper fight…

Mannochmore 11 yo 2008/2019 (56.8%, James Eadie, PX hogshead finish, 311 bottles)

This is black from Black's, as they say at Black & Black's. Colour: mahogany. Nose: coffee, roasted nuts, cigars, chocolate, good gunpowder, marmalade, engine oil, jabugo (a wee bit), truffles, roasted sesame… It's less bright than the previous 2008, but I find it just as perfect. With water: gets a little simpler and tighter. Glenfarclas 105, Mac 10 CS, early A'bunadh and all that. No bad refences mind you. Mouth (neat): oh, old Demerara! El Dorado without sugar. No, absolutely, rum. With water: maltier and more on tobacco, perhaps a wee tad more disjointed shall we say, but it's still an excellent sherried drop. Finish: long, getting grassier and spicier. Ginger and turmeric. Comments: I think I preferred the other one's immaculateness, but this mighty sherried Mannochmore would still bust up the 'official party', if you see what I mean. Upon reflexion, however, it did not need any waters.
SGP:461 - 87 points.

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