Imperial 1997 ElD The Single Malts of Scotland
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Imperial |
| Bottler | Elixir Distillers (ElD) |
| Bottling Series | The Single Malts of Scotland |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Bottled Year | 2018 |
| Age | 24년 |
| Cask Type | Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 42.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
옅은 금빛이 잔 안에 맑게 머문다. 문 닫은 스페이사이드 임페리얼이 배럴에서 스물네 해를 보낸 이 싱글 몰트는 잘 익은 사과와 꿀, 바닐라의 향을 차분하고 부드럽게 피운다. 42.9도의 점잖은 술은 입안에서 보리 단맛과 시트러스, 은은한 오크의 풍미를 매끄럽게 흘려보내며 오랜 숙성의 균형을 보여준다. 여운에는 꿀과 흰 꽃, 가벼운 향신료가 옅고 길게 남아 사라진 증류소의 단아함을 전한다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
sometimes the 43% are really a blessing (while 40% just never really work). Indeed, I really like this lightness, the freshness, and yet the complexity, and yet the easiness. Wonderful notes of marmalade, cigarette tobacco (I often quote Camels but that’s Camels as they used to smell thirty years ago, haven’t smelled any since back then!) then puréed chestnuts and a few smaller mushrooms in the woods. Say, wait… Blue clitocybes a.k.a. laccaria amethystina? They’re excellent and often come around boletus. Will have to start mushroomfun.com one day
restaurant Palate
interestingly old-school, you’d almost believe it’s a bottle from the 1970s, with quite a lot of OBE. So more mushrooms, roasted nuts, a touch of wax and oil (rapeseed), then rather roasted chestnuts and some kind of earthy, almost smoky nuttiness. Smoked almonds? Once again, the lower strength works perfectly well, I wouldn’t ask for one single extra-%
timer Finish
medium, complex, earthy, nutty, with some tobacco and drops of acidic coffee. And some OBE! (nah, nothing to do with the British Empire, even if this distillery was called Imperial, err, well…) Oranges in the aftertaste