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
창백한 금빛이 잔 속에 맑게 퍼진다. 1990년 원액이 리필 버트에서 16년을 보낸 이 보틀링은 셰리보다 오크의 미묘한 결이 앞서는 편이다. 향은 바닐라 퍼지의 부드러움에서 출발해 이끼와 젖은 돌, 생버섯 같은 서늘한 기운으로 옮겨간다. 46도의 입안은 레몬과 버터, 토피가 순하게 이어지고 생강과 계피가 뒤늦게 온기를 더한다. 여운은 소금기 섞인 레몬 향으로 깔끔하게 마르며 사라진다.
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