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
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
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