Macallan 1938 GM A Pure Highland Malt
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | A Pure Highland Malt |
| Vintage | 1938 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 35년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | Italian Label |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Italian Label
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
1938년 증류해 35년을 보낸 이 보틀링은 노즈부터 시대를 가늠하기 어려운 깊이를 드러낸다. 오래된 가죽과 말린 무화과, 옅은 흙내가 천천히 발전하며 스페이사이드 맥캘란의 단정한 골격을 보여준다. 43도의 팰럿은 부드러운 토피와 묵은 오크, 은은한 향신료가 균형 있게 이어진다. 긴 세월이 깎아낸 만큼 자극은 거의 없고, 피니시는 마른 셰리 잔향과 차 우린 듯한 떫은맛으로 잔잔히 잠겨 있다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
it shares quite a lot with these bottlings of pre-war single malts (Glen Grant, Strathisla, Mortlach, Linkwood) that G&M were issuing like a discarded firehose in the 1980s. That is to say: coconut, dried exotic fruits, precious hardwood resins and long aged herbal liqueurs with a thready backbone of peat running between everything. However, here there feels like extra depth and fatness. You get waxes, putty, lime oils and highly glossy rancio thickness. Harmonious and, frankly, stunning!
restaurant Palate
fantastic power at 43%, that’s what so many of the bottlings by G&M from this era lack at their measly 40%. Here you get wood spices, mushroom soup, tarragon, heavy pipe tobaccos, leather, natural tar and herbal medicines. I would say though that the fruits seem to evolve away from the exotic and more towards crystallised citrus peel and dark stewed fruits such as dates, fig and sultana. Light notes of Dundee cake soaked in stout ale. There’s also vapour rubs, hessian, dried herbs and a rather fatter peatiness
timer Finish
long, leathery, waxy, many dried fruit notes, teas, herbs and medicines