Macallan 1988 Wk
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Whiskykanzler (Wk) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1988 |
| Bottled Year | 2014 |
| Age | 25년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | 9133 |
| Bottles Released | 192 |
| ABV | 45.2% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | Comic Label Series |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
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Tasting Notes
노즈에서는 피노 셰리를 닮은 호두와 가죽, 담뱃잎의 향이 먼저 두드러진다. 뒤이어 멘톨과 유칼립투스가 명확하게 드러나고 말린 햄과 아몬드의 뉘앙스가 복합적으로 발전한다. 팰럿은 45.2도에서 멘톨이 강하게 치고 올라오며 타르와 아니스, 설탕에 절인 오렌지가 이어진다. 피니시는 길고 소나무 수지와 박하가 또렷하게 남는다. 1988년 오크 캐스크에서 25년을 보낸 앰버빛 원액으로 약재 같은 개성이 뚜렷하다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber/bronze
air Nose
same style as the 1958, with again these fino-ish notes, walnuts, leather, tobacco, humidor… It’s rather less expressive than the 1958 but there’s also more menthol and eucalyptus, so maybe the casks were a little more active. Hard to say… Also touches of old ham, almonds, even ideas of yellow curry... So yeah, the complexity is pretty immense
restaurant Palate
oh yes, this one is incomparably more on menthol than the 1958 and it seems that there’s much more peat as well. It’s even quite medicinal and sort of Taliskerish. Some tar, cough lozenges, angelica, chartreuse, even a little aniseed, maybe wormwood, marzipan, crystallised oranges... This time we’re having a big whisky but it’s true that it was bottled at 45.5% vs. 43. Brilliant even if no whisky lover who would have never tried some old Macallan would tell you this can be, well, Macallan
timer Finish
long this time, with some pine sap, eucalyptus drops, After Eights, mint, fir honeydew… In fact, it’s quite resinous. A little old wood in the aftertaste