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Private Collection Glenlivet 1943

Brand Private Collection
Expression Glenlivet 1943
Type Scotch Whisky / Single Malt
Vintage 1943
Abv 45.00%
Produced at Gordon & MacPhail
Region Speyside
Availability Limited worldwide
Guide Price £71 plus (US$114 plus) NB! This is our upper price guide, but the whisky may sell for considerably more than this.
Website http://www.gordonandmacphail.com

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 22 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson

Nose
Astonishingly fresh fruitiness and peatiness.
Palate
Yet more of that remarkable freshness, in the maltiness of flavour. Like malted milk, thickening into cream toffee. Then mint toffee. Apricot-ish fruitiness.
Finish
A hint of spice, sherry and cedary oakiness.
Comment
The Glenlivet is another whisky that I have encountered at great ages, often past their best. This shows its age only in its raffish, extrovert, confidence.

Dave Broom

Nose
Perfumed, initially dominated by intense menthol/peppermint aromas. There’s exotic spices, flowers: allspice, dried leather, beech nuts, oak/applewood. A smokiness dominates as it develops.
Palate
Spice and peat smoke. Woody yet somehow graceful.
Finish
Woody dry.
Comment
Incredible for a whisky this age to have retained such charm and elegance. A faded beauty.

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