Macallan 1980 JM Old Master's - Cask Strength Selection Miniature
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | James MacArthur (JM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1980 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 55.0% |
| Volume | 50 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
깊은 호박색이 잔 속에서 무겁게 일렁인다. 향은 말린 과일과 신선한 과일이 한데 얽혀 패션프루트와 파파야의 열대 과실이 석탄 연기, 흑연 같은 기름진 기운과 함께 떠오른다. 자두잼과 파이프 담배가 그 뒤를 받친다. 55도의 입은 초콜릿과 마멀레이드로 시작해 마른 시가와 귤 껍질, 아몬드까지 끝없이 이어진다. 1980년 증류된 이 위스키의 여운은 아주 길지는 않지만 건포도의 단맛이 또렷이 깃들어 마지막까지 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
instant thrill. Amazingly focussed and yet complex, with dried and fresh fruits mingled with coal smoke and various oils. Sounds simple, it’s not. What’s absolutely striking is something that’s relatively rare in whisky in my experience, and that’s to be found more often in great well-aged wines, which is a profile that’s essentially tertiary, that is to say a gathering of myriads of tiny flavours rather than a few massive ones. Pure poetry, in fact. Just a few examples, soot, passion fruits, papayas, graphite oil (its quite graphity, in fact), plum jam, pipe tobacco, rhubarb… And dozens and dozens of other aromas. What’s particularly impressive as well is the freshness, we’re absolutely not ‘all on raisins’. My, we could go on and on…
restaurant Palate
very huge whisky! Starts dry, rather on chocolate and raisins (I mean, the black, rather dry raisins), but it just does the peacock’s tail after that, with figs, various raisins, marmalade, jams, chutneys, chocolates, a touch of bouillon, cigars, tangerines, a tiny metallic side, a drop of limoncello, some almonds, herbs (rosemary, sage)… The list is simply endless. Now the background is also a little gritty and slightly coarse, so to speak, say with more cocoa powder. That’s cool, these great whiskies are never schmaltzy!
timer Finish
maybe not the longest Macallan ever, and maybe the finish is a notch narrower, but these… raisins are beautiful