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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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June 6, 2022 |
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Little Trios, today Glenlivet
As you would imagine, there's plenty of Glenlivet at Château WF, as it is a major name. So let's pick a trio carefully. Right, randomly, like a savage…
(Magazine ad, 1974. We had thought it would be 'barley', or 'still', or 'yeast', or 'time', or even 'oak'...) |
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Glenlivet 14 yo (54.7%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults Exclusive, #2.123, 'Fragrant, fruity and frolicsome', 187 bottles, 2021) 
A little bird told me that they're now using a Fugaku supercomputer to find their names. Colour: straw. Nose: new-sawn plywood and sauna oils, then earl grey and not-too-ripe bananas, plus a bag of all-colour jelly babies. With water: simply a perfect sweet maltiness. Mouth (neat): superbly fruity arrival, we're at the fair, we're having marshmallows, candyfloss, toffee apple and boiled sweets while sipping a good glass of sweet cider. Very oily mouthfeel. With water: excellently malty and bready. Finish: medium, all on sweet barley, with more citrus in the aftertaste. Comments: this wee 'livet was maybe not utterly complex, but it was totally natural and right up my alley. We should have bought bottle; this will age well in a good cellar.
SGP:651 - 87 points. |
Perhaps an official private bottling… |
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Glenlivet 16 yo 2004/2020 (54.7%, OB for Or Sileis Taiwan, First fill sherry butt, cask #16611, 570 bottles)
I think we'll never support Taiwan enough. Colour: dark red amber. Nose: I'm not sure we've ever been this close to old Pu-her tea, I'm even finding whiffs of garden bonfire (grass, branches and leaves), various smokes (including marijuana indeed), old walnut wine, cognac, roasted pecans… With water: great trio, varnish, balsamic vinegar and calvados/applejack. Plus walnut wine, we were about to add 'of course'. Mouth (neat): huge and perhaps a tad unbalanced, with rather a lot of rubber and a little soap. Probably nothing that a few drops of proper water (not too soft and not too hard) won't fix immediately… With water: and voilà, roasted nuts aplenty, pecan pie, liquorice, meaty bouillons, gravy, burger, soy sauce, Bovril/VIandox… Those sorts of things, plus dark tobacco and a lot of raw, like 90% cocoa chocolate. A wee whisky that'll always want to have the last say. Finish: very long, rather on armagnac, plus chocolate, plus coffee, plus soy sauce, plus balsamic vinegar, plus walnut wine. A little tiring, perhaps? I'm joking. Comments: great but a little monstrous and undisciplined. Come on!
SGP:362 - 87 points. |
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Glenlivet 25 yo 1995/2020 (55.3%, OB for Jack Tar, Selected by LMDW fo China, 2nd fill American oak barrel, cask #9480, 150 bottles) 
Colour: light gold. Nose: barley, vanilla, hay, overripe apples and danishes, this is ultra-classic. I'm dead sure a few drops of water will unlock a few more aromas. With water: indeed, tiny herbs, chamomile and lemongrass, honeysuckle, acacia flowers, some fudge, nougat… Mouth (neat): fresh, on litres of cider and indeed some grapefruit liqueur. Wonderful rounded, almost fat tartness, if you see what I mean. Lemon tarte with whipped cream and liquid caramel, another sin. And lemon-flavoured turon. With water: tenser and tighter, with some pepper and bitters. I'm not sure I should mention Campari. Finish: very long, peppery, spicier, moving towards more bitters and dry herbal cordials. That's a nice, serious ending! The aftertaste is a little drying, tea-ish, tannic. Comments: almost to 90, only the aftertaste was a tad tougher. Great cask, nevertheless.
SGP:561 - 89 points. |
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