Macallan 1997 MM
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 9년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon / Château Latour |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 몇 번 돌리면 샤토 라투르 캐스크의 흔적이 짙은 호박빛으로 드러난다. 코를 가까이 하면 말린 자두와 무화과, 파이프 담배 향이 겹겹이 올라오고 흑연 같은 미네랄 기운이 뒤를 받친다. 한 모금을 머금으면 건포도와 초콜릿의 단맛이 묵직하게 입을 채우고 코코아 가루의 마른 쓴맛이 뒤따른다. 아홉 해만 보냈다고 믿기 어려운 이 위스키는 삼킨 뒤 마멀레이드 향을 오래 되살린다.
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