Macallan 2003 GM Speymalt
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2003 |
| Bottled Year | 2022 |
| Age | 19년 |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
갈색에 가까운 짙은 호박빛이 잔 안에 무겁게 고여 있다. 향은 성냥을 그은 듯한 유황 기운으로 시작해 트러플 수프와 검은 토피, 밤꿀과 초콜릿으로 이어지고 그 아래 오래된 올로로소와 호두, 정향과 타르가 겹겹이 깔린다. 57.3도의 입은 부싯돌 같은 셰리로 대단히 진하고 두꺼운데 레몬의 산미가 그 무거움을 들어 올린다. 여운은 매우 길고 고기의 감칠맛 뒤로 짠맛이 또렷이 깃들어 있다.
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