Allt-a-Bhainne 2006 GM Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Allt-a-Bhainne |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength |
| Vintage | 2006 |
| Bottled Year | 2024 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | Refill American Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 60.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔 안쪽에 짙은 황금빛이 또렷이 깃든다. 리필 아메리칸 호그스헤드에서 자란 알트어바인 2006, 18년이라는 시간이 단정한 결로 향에 새겨진 모습이다. 잔을 가까이 하면 잘 익은 사과와 들꿀, 옅은 바닐라가 풀려 나오고, 한 모금 머금으면 시리얼의 단맛과 가벼운 후추, 시나몬이 미끄러지듯 흐른다. 60.1도의 도수가 단단한 윤곽을 또렷이 받치며, 끝맛은 마른 보리와 옅은 오크로 잔잔히 흐른다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
full gold
air Nose
whaah! Starts on long abandoned cow stable and quite some wine vinegar, then we have new plastic (supermarket pouches as we had a few years ago), aspirin tablets, the same chalkiness as in the 1993, some spearmint, some chocolate, rotting oranges, herbs, game, oyster sauce… Once again it isn’t really brutal despite the high strength but it’s really, well, unusual. With water: it became even more farmy and gamy. There’s also much more mint, lemon, leather and flints/gunpowder. Quite rebellious, so to speak…
restaurant Palate
rich, creamy and certainly less unusual than on the nose. A powerful tannicity, cardamom, grass, bitter oranges, truckloads of liquorice and touches of caramel. Quite a beast, this one! With water: it became rather beautiful albeit quite simple, all on pepper and orange zests. If you like the bitter kind of sherry…
timer Finish
long, very peppery