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 | 57.5% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
노즈에서는 화약과 성냥의 유황 뉘앙스가 가장 먼저 두드러지고 곧 트러플 수프와 다크 토피, 밤꿀로 이어진다. 그 아래에는 오래된 올로로소와 호두, 정향, 감초, 타르가 겹겹이 깔려 있다. 57.5도의 입은 부싯돌 같은 올로로소가 지배하며 질감이 두껍고 진하지만 레몬의 산미가 무게를 들어올린다. 소금기 도는 토피가 중심을 잡아 균형이 단단하다. 피니시는 매우 길고 고기 국물 같은 감칠맛과 짠맛이 마지막까지 남는다.
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