Gordon & MacPhail Private Collection
8.4

Gordon & MacPhail Private Collection

Glenlivet Distillery

1943

ABV 45%

Incredible for a whisky this age to have retained such charm and elegance. A faded beauty.

Dave Broom

Specification

Private Collection

Gordon & MacPhail

Brand

Gordon & MacPhail

Bottler

1943

Expression

Single Malt

Type

No age statement

Age (Years)

45%

ABV

Speyside

Region/Country

Independent Bottling

Bottling Type

Tasting Notes

Dave Broom

Taster

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.

Score: 7.8

Michael Jackson

Taster

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.

Score: 9

8.4
Overall Score

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