Macallan 1990 SV The Un-Chillfiltered Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | Refill Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 코끝으로 가져가면 리필 버트 특유의 절제된 향이 먼저 인사한다. 바닐라 퍼지와 보리죽 같은 곡물감이 열리고 이어 젖은 이끼와 고사리, 축축한 백묵의 미네랄이 따라 나온다. 한 모금을 머금으면 레몬 껍질과 버터 토피가 혀 위로 미끄러지고 46도의 도수가 각지지 않게 밀도를 잡아준다. 천천히 삼키면 시트러스와 소금기가 압축되어 길게 따라온다. 1990년 스피릿을 16년 담아둔 리필 캐스크가 맥캘란의 살집을 오히려 투명하게 드러낸다.
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