Gordon & MacPhail Old Pulteney 1990 Cask Strength

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 54 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Sherry, sherry and sherry again. Bovrils, Marmite, burnt tyre. Date molasses. Musty cellar. Hint of earthy mushroom. Dry walnuts. Palate Heavily sherried. Currants marinated in a spicy syrup. Dates and figs, with a touch of dried apricot. Walnut peel. Bittersweet. Finish Rich and spicy. Sweet oak. Comment So sherry… Dark Oloroso wipes out all maltiness. Unbalanced but sherry fanatics will love it.

Dave Broom Nose Grunty but mellow. Ripe fruits, pot pourri, cold coffee, kicking up wet leaves in the winter. Lightly waxy with a hint of phenol and furniture polish. Palate Silky, moving into fruit compote, peaches in red wine, sultana. Fine tannins. Has depth. Finish Tingling. Bitter chocolate, honeycomb, light smoke. Comment A grumbly kind of cove.