3/5/2023 0 Comments Macallan whiskey 1963![]() ![]() In truth, if I tasted the old No.7 again, that was because I needed a stepping-stone to this one… Some aspects remind me of Dad’s Southern Comfort. Have they ever tried Octomore? Seriously, this is no bad whiskey at all, it’s just very consensual. Comments: it’s always made me laugh that fine gentlemen such as Lemmy Kilmister or Keith Richards were so deep into Jack Daniels. More oak and vanilla again in the aftertaste. Grenadine, cranberry syrup, bananas, jelly babies and just a touch of toasted bread that comes with a few soft oak spices, such as cinnamon. So easy, so smooth… And frankly, this is a pleasant nose. Varnish and CH3COO4CH3 (that’s bananas and pears) plus butterscotch and vanilla and a touch of orange. Jack Daniel's ‘Old No.7’ (40%, OB, USA, Tennessee Whiskey, +/-2013) What happens? It’s the second time in two years that I’m tasting old Jack! It’s not bourbon, and yet it is – or something like that. We’ll choose them one after the other, but we’ll try to start with the simpler ones. This small bunch will include bourbons, naturally, and maybe other whiskeys from the good old US of A. Please visit her website and buy her music. Comments: so indeed, a fatter style, but it’s hard to compare it with the Wolfburn since that one came ‘with Laphroaig inside’, and was twenty months older. Finish: quite long, mostly on oranges, with a little linseed oil. With water (down to +/-46%): some wax comes out, together with tinned fruits and most certainly several kinds of oranges. ![]() Hurray! Mouth: a little more difficult to enjoy, but that’s the strength. I really enjoy this, it’s not unlike some gentler… mezcal (that would have been distilled at Clynelish, ha-ha). Having said that, it seems to be a fatter spirit, more ‘congeneric’, with more meaty/waxy notes, more earth and farmy notes, quite some mushrooms and humus… I also find a little tincture of iodine. Nose: it’s obviously rougher than the Wolfburn, but remember this is new make, and at a much higher strength (not natural though, it’s been reduced a bit). Oh and the spirit still is more or less twice as large as Wolfburn’s. This is unpeated newmake, but Ardnamurchan does (or should do) both unpeated and peated. It’s located on the shores of Loch Sunart. SGP:533Īrdnamurchan 2015 new make (63%, sample, 2015) This is Adelphi’s distillery, which started distilling last year. Comments: a sweet and easy profile that should be ready quite early in my opinion. There’s also more smoke and ashes, more lapsang souchong. Maybe something very faintly medicinal in the aftertaste, but that might be Laphroaig. Finish: rather short, a little more citrusy. Blood oranges, pears, pineapples (but not too much of that), barley water, and very few rubbery/feinty notes, which is quite an achievement at such young age. ![]() There’s something that reminds me of Glenmorangie, perhaps. Mouth: there’s rather more smoke now, while the body remains fairly delicate, certainly not fat. I especially enjoy the whiffs of damp earth and roots that arise after a few minutes, as well as the very tiny touches of rubbed mint leaves. Drops of lapsang souchong? There are also touches of rubber and butter, as usual in very young whiskies, and maybe a little pineapple. Nose: the pears are plentiful, and great news, Laphroaig has good manners here, so the smokiness is rather minimal. Just ask the blenders! Colour: pale white wine. and matured in ex-Laphroaig quarter cask, so I’m not totally sure we’ll manage to get a perfect grasp of Wolfburn’s style, as Laphroaig can be very, say ‘invading’, even when in very small proportions. (A bit) sadly this not-quite-whisky-yet was reduced to 46% vol. Wolfburn 20 mo 2013/2014 'Inaugural Release' (46%, OB, Swiss import, British plain spirit) Wolfburn Distillery, in Thurso, make unpeated malt whisky. But these will be new makes or BPS, so I’m afraid we just won’t score them. the westernmost distillery, that should be fun. The northernmost distillery on the Scottish mainland vs. ![]()
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