Glen Mhor 1979 GM Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glen Mhor |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | Cask Strength |
| Vintage | 1979 |
| Bottled Year | 1994 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 66.7% |
| Volume | 50 ml 350 ml 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
deep amber, brownish
air Nose
rather smooth and round at first nosing, starting mostly on coffee and bitter chocolate – it must be a sherry version. Not overly expressive for a while but then we have kind of a burst of flowery and fruity notes. Peonies, roses and lilies plus very ripe strawberries. It gets then meatier and meatier (rabbit with sauce forestière - mushrooms) and then it’s back to coffee and chocolate plus hints of mint leaves. A nice trip, that’s for sure quite expressive despite the high alcohol, with again lots of coffee, caramel and chocolate plus maybe these notes of peonies we already had in the Signatory. But let’s not burn our nose… With water (reduced to roughly 45%): gets much more austere, dry, almost farmy as if there was quite some peat. Lots of hay, smoked tea, old papers, chalk. Hints of vanilla flavoured milk, rice cake… Mouth (neat – aaargh): extremely fruity, sweet, almost sugary… and burning indeed. Let’s not be reckless and try it with water: yes, that works, with again an enjoyable smokiness plus lots of lapsang souchong tea, pepper, dried herbs (thyme) and dried pears. Great balance and very interesting smokiness. The best part is probably the very long and waxy, phenolic finish. Not unlike a strong tea liqueur (try to make some, it’s very easy and quite good, you just have to let some good tea infuse in plain alcohol and then ad a little sugar). Anyway, 88 points for this excellent Glen Mhor. And also Glen Mhor 1979/2004 (43%, Gordon & MacPhail) A slightly weak and off-beat version with these 'strange' notes that I often find in Glen Mhor. Yes, must be me... Now, I think it's much better than some earlier ones such as some of the 8yo's. 78 points. Glen Mhor 34 yo 1966/2000 (50%, Douglas Laing OMC, 396 bottles) This one is much better than most Glen Mhors I know, maybe even than the RM’s (not that the two great ones we just had, that is). Not really ‘different’ but nicely chocolaty, malty and raisiny, with a nice balance. 85 points . MUSIC – Recommended listen
restaurant Palate
a great presence and lots of oomph (not exactly a pleonasm). Maybe a tad too winey at the attack, with a certain sourness but then we have lots of caramel sauce, roasted raisins, gingerbread, rancio… Old Port, orange sauce, highly concentrated fruit liqueur, notes of cough syrup, camphor… Maybe hints of rubber but that’s okay. A long, fruity, quite vinous finish, maybe a little too hot but the whole is very enjoyable, although not exactly easily drinkable for it’s so ‘thick’ and winey. 87 points . Glen Mhor 1979/1994 (66.7%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘cask’) A whopping strength, let’s prepare the water jug…
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