Glenlivet Distillery
ABV 45%
Incredible for a whisky this age to have retained such charm and elegance. A faded beauty.
Dave Broom
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
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
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
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