Glen Albyn 1979 SMWS 69.5 Pressed flowers
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glen Albyn |
| Bottler | - |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 63.0% |
| Volume | - |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | - |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
deep gold
air Nose
this is probably not very fair to the current 17, this baby’s spent more than 70 years in a lovely bottle and has gained an immense complexity, and yet it’s very ‘obvious’ whisky, with a high fruity and phenolic impact. So it’s certainly much more phenolic than the current production, I guess peat was much more in use. At random, I find kumquats, orange blossom honey, charcoal smoke, peat smoke, tiger balm, old crème de menthe, mirabelles, praline straight from the oven and, yes, hashish. It’s becoming more and more resinous!
restaurant Palate
absolutely stunning. Absolutely no signs of tiredness and just a massive, immense resinous profile that’s anything but bitter or acrid. Again that specialty from Morocco or Afghanistan ;-), a lot of cough syrup (a cough? Anytime!), chlorophyll, pinesap, then marmalade, dark chocolate, some earth, some roots (gentian, yup), some tobacco, various peppers… All that is very impressive, you just have to enjoy resinous or sappy things as much as I do
timer Finish
very long, almost interminable. And always very resinous…
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