Double Barrel Macallan / Laphroaig DL
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Douglas Laing (DL) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 9년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
옅은 황금빛이 잔 속에서 조용히 일렁인다. 맥캘란과 라프로익을 한 병에 담은 더글라스 랭의 더블 배럴은 향에서 꿀과 밀랍, 말린 노란 과실이 먼저 열리고 그 틈으로 아일라의 이탄 연기와 요오드가 스며든다. 두 성격이 부딪히지 않고 나란히 놓이는 점이 이 보틀링의 미덕이다. 46도의 입안은 무화과와 감초, 옅은 타르가 함께 굴러가며 두꺼운 질감으로 흐른다. 여운에는 파이프 담배와 짠 기운이 깊게 머문다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
what can I tell you? Perhaps that even a complete dictionary of whisky aromas wouldn’t quite suffice. Up front, everything that comes from a beehive – honey, wax, pollen, propolis, fir wood… Then heaps of dried yellow fruits – apples, raisins, figs, pears, bananas… Then forgotten varnishes, leathers, waxes and embrocations, aromas you’d find in the dusty stacks of an 18th-century library. And to top it all off, those familiar notes of ‘vintage car’ from similar eras. Let’s say an old Jag from the 50s or 60s – how does that sound? And what brilliance to bottle this at 80°proof, roughly 46% vol. Okay, 45.85
restaurant Palate
immense, one of the GOATs of malt whisky, now melted into a kind of coffee and liquorice cake, yet with many distinct components still shimmering through – the honeys, the figs, a whisper of tar, the malt of course, sultanas, walnuts and pecans, and of course the queens of old-school sherry: the figs. Not forgetting the cognac and the mosto/paxarette, whose roles have always been debated quietly when no one else was listening. Ssh… Let’s not overlook the pipe tobacco and bouillons either, two pillars of this now sadly fading style. Have you rung the Anti-Maltoporn Brigade yet?
timer Finish
sublime. Nothing more to say