Macallan 1990 MM
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | Fresh Sherry |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
1990년 증류액을 프레시 셰리에 담은 결과가 노즈에서 뚜렷하게 읽힌다. 건포도와 몰트 비스킷이 먼저 두드러지고 젖은 분필 같은 미네랄이 배경에서 층을 만든다. 팰럿은 46%의 무게 위로 버터 토피와 레몬 껍질, 생강이 이어져 단맛과 산미의 대비가 분명하다. 피니시는 길게 이어지며 바닐라와 옅은 소금기가 남는다. 16년 숙성치고 표현이 복합적인 보틀링이다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
we’re more in the vein of the second CV here, but with extra-oomph and more cask influence. More plain vanilla and vanilla fudge at first nosing but then it gets wilder, farmier, more vegetal and more mineral, not unlike the 12 we just had. Notes of fern, moss, fresh mushrooms, plantain bananas, roots, dead leaves... Then very big notes of wet chalk, a little porridge, ginger tonic, faint hints of turpentine and varnish, shoe polish... It’s very complex for such a young whisky, and certainly the one I like most of all recent bottlings by Springbank – so far!
restaurant Palate
excellent attack, punchy but not overpowering, starting right on these very weird notes that I think are quite unpleasant in some recent Springbanks, Longrows or Hazelburns but that work quite well here. Something like Seven-Up or gin-tonic, or ginger wine. Also quite some butter, plain lemons, buttered toffee, malt, something like concentrated milk, melons... Let’s see what happens with water (and while the nose got smokier): more citrus (tangerines starting to rot – nothing wrong here), a little more salt and a very typical salty waxiness (?) plus quite some added spices, such as nutmeg and cinnamon and a sherry that got a little more obvious now but still rather discreet we think
timer Finish
long, more compact (vanilla, lemons and salt) and also a little cleaner, which is exactly what’s expected in a very good whisky at my end. I think this is excellent at barely 10 years of age and I almost feel like shouting ‘hurray for Springbank!’ An old love of mine may well be back