Balblair 1990 BA Aberdeen Distillers

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Balblair
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Age	11년
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ABV	43.0%
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Country	Scotland
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Flavor Profile

Oaky

Sweet

Vanilla

Fruity

Honey

Creamy

Spicy

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Herbal

Chocolate

Citrus

Maritime

Smoky

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

as subtly austere as a malt can get I think. Starts all on wet stones, gunflints, cold smoke, ashes and develops more on smoked ham, grilled meat, tar and coal. I’m sure water will make it more talkative... Oh yes, now we’re really on Islay, with a huge ‘brutality’ (well), notes of cow stable, wet grain, wet hay, sheep, even horse dung... And our beloved wet dog, of course. Faint hints of soda water and ginger tonic

restaurant Palate

very obvious similarities with the G&M, but of course this is much bolder, with more of everything. A lot of lemon zests, peat and pepper, which reminds me of the wildest Taliskers. Gets peatier with time but we have also zesty notes of fresh fruits (kiwis?). With water: not much development except quite some gentian spirit and liquorice stick. It got earthier and ‘rootier’, in fact

timer Finish

long, slightly salty, with a lot of lemon now and a peaty back burn. We want more Ardmore! 88 points. MUSIC – Recommended listening: the great late Oscar Brown Jr. does Maxine.mp3 . You must buy his music and poetry. October 12, 2007 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan MARTIN CARTHY AND DAVE SWARBRICK Edward and his mother Jane Seymour The Half Moon, Putney, London, September 30th 2007 “Swarb and I don’t really do fun” said Martin Carthy , as he acknowledged the reception to the opening song of the night (as I recall) ‘Death and the lady’, a maudlin tale of a woman’s unfortunate meeting with Death on the road (whilst she walked out “one morn in May”). Needless to say despite all her entreaties and best efforts she was unable to escape his icy grasp. If you have the 1971 reprint of the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, edited by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A A Lloyd, you’ll find this tune on page 31. On page 32 is the equally harrowing ‘The death of Queen Jane’, based on the true history of Queen Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII, who died shortly after giving birth to her son Edward (who at the age of 9 became King, but himself died only six years later). The song recounts her agonising confinement, and her pleas for a Tudor caesarean section – “do open my right side and find my baby”.It’s the second song of the night, but the first on Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick 's 2006 album, Straws in the Wind, which features nine songs from the Penguin collection, along with a number of tunes old and new. It is very, very, good, and probably one of the reasons why they were voted ‘Best Folk Duo’ by the BBC earlier this year. The other reason for such an accolade is the sort of performance they turned in tonight, almost perfect, in a room as silent as a Meeting House on a solemn Sunday night. Actually it’s the back room of the Half Moon – which post smoking ban has had something of a face lift. You need sunglasses to go into the urinals these days. Not that there isn’t any fun – C

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