Glen Spey 1981 CA Authentic Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glen Spey |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | Authentic Collection |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 1995 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 60.5% |
| Volume | 50 ml 700 ml 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold – amber
air Nose
quite fragrant at first nosing, with some rather winey and rubbery notes… Lots of very ripe yellow fruits coming through after a few seconds, such as mirabelle plums, yellow peaches, apricot… We have also something quite mineral and smoky, notes of toasted bread, old white wine (old Rieslings) with little hints of Madeira, coffee, chicory ‘coffee’... There’s quite some menthol as well, a little camphor… Another ‘wine-malt’, and a nice one, at that, with a perfect balance. Very, very enjoyable – another great selection by Jack ‘The Pirate’, it seems…
restaurant Palate
extremely fruity and nervous attack, with tons of crystallized oranges and kumquats, eau-de-vie cherries and dried apricots and notes of fructose but quite strangely, the malts gets then suddenly dry and sort of short. Bizarre! It gets then quite coffeeish and smoky again, with notes of burnt cake, cough syrup and grilled tea but the mouth feel is maybe a little thin. What’s more, the finish is rather short as expected, minty and sort of dry, but not unpleasant. Well, the nose was wonderful, the attack superb but it didn’t quite deliver after that. Too bad, but on the other hand, that makes it very easy to drink. 86 points (but it would have probably reached the 90-mark with a little more body). Glen Spey 16 yo 1981/1997 (60.5%, Cadenhead, oak cask)
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