Old Malt Cask North Port 36 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 28 by Michael Jackson and Martine Nouet.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Cedary. Newly sawn wood. Resin. Oil of peppermint. Palate Oily. Black chocolate. Bitter. Finish Drying. Musty. Woody. Comment Of interest to collectors, historians and the likes of me, but this Brechin brew, staunched in 1983, never made a great whisky.

Martine Nouet Nose Big and Pungent. Fruit and wood. Cider apple, damson plums, honey. Dark chocolate. Palate Sour fruitiness. The spices and biting alcohol is hardly tolerable, even with water. Wood dominates maltiness. Reminiscent of a rye whiskey. Finish Robust, warm, biting. Comment It's my first taste of North Port so I can't decide if the distillery character has been blurred or not by sherry. Like a bulldozer after an earthquake.