Murray McDavid Mission II Glen Grant 1969

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 37 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose New leather. Pigskin. Palate Slightly oily. Roast pork. Red apples. Hazelnuts. Finish Char. Oak. Comment This delicate malt in unusually full flavour.

Dave Broom Nose Very perfumed. Turkish delight, wood oils, leather, pine forest. With water: amaretto, dried flowers, orange peel. Complex. Palate Good weight and firm structure with an interesting sooty note. Allspice, orange pekoe tea and dry nuts. Very good balance. Finish Strawberry and marzipan. Comment Evidence of this still's ability to age superbly well.