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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 30, 2022 |
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Little duos, today 15 year old sherried Pulteney |
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Let's drive North, to Wick, and have our 100th Pulteney. Yes, only 100 Pulteneys within almost 20 years, what a shame, it's as if the whisky world ended at Brora/Clynelish. Not proud at all, I say I deserve blame and gibes. Meanwhile…
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Pulteney 15 yo 2006/2021 (52.6%, Hart Brothers, Cask Strength, first sherry butt filled) 
It is as if someone's given instructions to the printer by telephone. I mean, first sherry butt filled, isn't that rather first fill sherry butt? Or was it, indeed, the first sherry butt they ever filled? Anyway, good fun, love Hart Bros. Colour: amber. Nose: it was some sweet sherry, apparently. Many raisins, dried figs, dried dates, perhaps even moscatel, then ginger cookies and some salted fudge. A coastal side remains, it's not heady. With water: a dusty touch, otherwise old oloroso, meat sauce, Maggi and hoisin sauce. It went from very sweet to pretty savoury. Mouth (neat): a salty and rubbery touch at first, then some thickish sweet ale, rancio, chocolate sauce (mole), flavoured pipe tobacco (cherry), fruitcake (Alsatian beerawecka – and why not) and marmalade. The rubber's gone. With water: the rubber's gone for good. Lovely chocolate sauce indeed, salted marmalade, and the expected walnut wine. Finish: rather long, dry and chocolaty. Salty toffee in the aftertaste. Comments: very good 'sherry monster'. I would suppose ten more years of bottle aging would push it towards the 90-mark.
SGP:462 - 87 points. |
And now, our 100th Pulteney… |
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Pulteney 15 yo 2004/2020 (63.3%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice, refill sherry butt, cask #629, batch #20/092, 507 bottles)
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Not too sure about what that batch number on the label means in this context, unless they would work with the same printer as the Harts. Ha. Colour: deep gold. Nose: totally the glory of refill. Olives, teak oil, putty, wood smoke, fudge, some fino-y character, walnuts, tiger balm, sweet mustard and tiny bits of pencil shavings. With water: some mint, earth and liquorice. Mouth (neat): G&M have always been Pulteney specialists and that shows. Wonderful lemony, sour, nutty and salty arrival, then masala, bulldog sauce, tobacco and brine. A lot of power but it is curiously drinkable, even at 63.3 vol., or maybe is that because I rather adore this salty style? With water: some sweetness returns, around raisins and butterscotch, pepper mint liqueur, sweet teriyaki sauce, walnuts… Finish: long, meaty, salty, rich. Tobacco and oak in the aftertaste. Comments: I'm reminded of G&M's older CASK Pulteneys, splendid drop.
SGP:562 - 90 points. |
PS: sorry about those silly jokes about the printer, just trying to keep it all a little fun in these darker times, with our friends in Ukraine in mind. |
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