North Port 1981 WF
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | North Port |
| Bottler | The Whisky Fair (WF) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2006 |
| Age | 25년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Wood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | 120 |
| ABV | 56.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold – amber
air Nose
a very aromatic start, on lots of fruit jams (apricot, plums, melon), getting then very camphory and minty. Very nervous considering its age. Goes on with quite some wax polish, old wardrobe, old books, while remaining very fresh and lively. Hints of Virginia tobacco, leather, crystallized oranges, pistachio and olive oil… Gets rather maritime after that, mostly on seaweed. Hints of diesel oil, linseed oil, a little turpentine, smoked tea. I like it a lot – and there seems to be a little peat in there. Very elegant, at that
restaurant Palate
powerful and creamy, with a rather salty attack. Quite some tannins as expected but this one is far from having gone over the hill. It develops on apricot pie and jam, fudge, roasted peanuts, nougat and gets then very spicy with the usual ‘woody cavalry’: nutmeg, white pepper, cinnamon, ginger… It starts to get a little too drying after a while, though, and especially the finish is quite woody. But it’s a very good old whisky nevertheless. 86 points . North Port 25 yo 1981/2006 (56.1%, The Whisky Fair, sherry wood, 120 bottles)
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