Dalmore 1997 Wy Gooseberry Marmalade
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Dalmore |
| Bottler | Wemyss Malts (Wy) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Bottled Year | 2013 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
copper/red orange
air Nose
the wine stands out at first nosing, but it’s rather less on peonies/blackcurrants than the 12. More toasted oak, a bit of gunpowder, leather, maybe a little tar and a sudden burst of ginger and curcuma. Quite possibly first fill chateau casks (the 1ers crus usually fill their barrels only once for their wines and then resell them). Also rather obvious notes of patchouli and a little Grand-Marnier. It seems that the fairly unlikely combination works so far…
restaurant Palate
we’re close to the nice Bruichladdichs ‘First Growth’ here, with the wine doing most of the talking at first sips. It’s a rich whisky, with many fruity and spicy notes as well as quite some oak (very different from heavily toasted American oak, much less sweet and vanilla-ed). Notes of rose jelly, pomegranates, blackcurrant jelly, cherry liqueur, some capsicum, cardamom as well, a little green tea, liquorice, greengages, bitter oranges… A few tannins flying around but it’s no tannic whisky at all. Again, works well. Good body
timer Finish
rather long, on a combination of blackcurrant buds, green pepper and a little cinchona