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 | 57.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 코끝에 가져가면 성냥 연기와 검은 토피가 먼저 인사하고 곧 초콜릿과 밤꿀, 정향이 뒤따른다. 잔을 더 돌리면 타르와 감초, 젖은 돌 같은 냄새가 깊게 깔린다. 한 모금 머금으면 57.1도의 술이 기름지게 혀를 감싸며 오래된 올로로소와 소금 캐러멜, 송로버섯의 감칠맛을 남긴다. 물을 더하면 레몬의 산미가 올라와 무게를 덜어 준다. 삼킨 뒤에는 고기 같은 감칠맛과 짠맛이 오래 이어지는 2003년 퍼스트필 셰리 캐스크다.
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