Gordon & MacPhail Glen Calder

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 44 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Sweet and fragrant. Demerara sugar. Melon. Grapefruit. A touch exotic fruit. Pineapple. Then develops on fresh oak and cedar. Palate Mellow. Velvety. Releases more wood notes than on the nose. Resin. Finish A little biting. Long. After Eight mint chocolate. Comment On the sweet side, although the finish brings out a more assertive note. A good winter warmer.

Dave Broom Nose Creamily sweet and lush. Bread and butter pudding, grass/straw, custard Tokaji, clootie dumpling. Good grain notes. Palate Slick and soft, well matured. Spices, peach and a touch of almost burnt treacle underneath. Soft, toffee-ed. Finish Nutty, chocolate. Comment A delicious rounded session blend.