Macallan 2003 GM Speymalt
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2003 |
| Bottled Year | 2022 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.7% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 흔들면 화약과 성냥을 그은 듯한 냄새가 먼저 튀어나온다. 코를 계속 대면 송로버섯 수프와 짙은 토피, 밤꿀과 초콜릿이 차례로 열리고 오래된 올로로소와 호두가 바닥을 채운다. 한 모금 삼키면 부싯돌 같은 셰리가 입을 가득 메우는데 레몬즙 같은 산미가 무게를 들어 올려 균형을 잡는다. 삼킨 뒤에는 고기 육수 같은 감칠맛과 소금기가 아주 길게 남는다. 퍼스트필 셰리 호그스헤드가 2003년 증류액을 옛 시절로 되돌려 놓았다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
brown amber
air Nose
I'll get killed one day but I think this is more Macallan than Macallan. I mean 'traditional' Macallan, starting with a little gunpowder and struck matches, moving towards truffle soup and dark toffee, going on towards chestnut honey and chocolate, then hectolitres of old oloroso, bags of walnuts, clove, liquorice, sludge, tar, flints, something basaltic… We're back in the years way before 2003. With water: truffle soup! There's one thing that's almost like this, it is Bocuse's 'Soupe VGE'. Some soup harbouring truffles, foie gras and Noilly, what could go wrong?
restaurant Palate
pure flinty oloroso, extremely rich, thick, bordering heaviness but some lemon is saving it all. This is extremely spectacular, you do almost have the feeling that someone's added lemon juice to lift this cask to new heights. Fantastic. With water: this is a time machine. Salty toffee, more truffle, very old oloroso, and always this lemon juice that's adding just the right amount of freshness. These little notes of chervil are helping too
timer Finish
very long and superbly meaty. This is the kind of whisky they should have at *** restaurants, instead of the usual 'supermarket' bottles. Some saltiness in the aftertaste