Linkwood 1991 HSC Valentino Zagatti's Personal Choice
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Linkwood |
| Bottler | High Spirits' Collection (HSC) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1991 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | PX Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
노즈에서는 PX 셰리 버트에서 오는 진한 건포도와 무화과, 흑설탕이 가장 먼저 두드러진다. 섬세하기로 알려진 스페이사이드 링크우드가 1991년 빈티지로 16년을 보낸 이 보틀링은 46도에서도 셰리의 단맛이 또렷하다. 팰럿은 대추야자와 다크초콜릿, 가벼운 향신료로 발전하며 질감이 두껍게 느껴진다. 피니시는 마른 과실과 오크의 단맛이 길게 이어진다. 링크우드의 우아함과 PX 셰리의 무게가 균형을 이루는 한 잔이다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
quite closed at first nosing, just a little spirity, but it’s soon to exhale some very perfumy and slightly soapy notes. Orange skin, lavender, cardboard… Develops on ginger tonic, paraffin, almond milk, but everything is sort of toned down. We’ll try it with a few drops of water after the first sips
restaurant Palate
very sweet and almost sugarish, starting on sugared cereals, rum, vanilla liqueur… Quite some oomph but some very simple flavours. Water needed, maybe… Let’s go: the nose gets a little farmier and more phenolic, with a little peat coming through, burning candle, and something meaty, like smoked ham and sausages… It certainly improves, good news. The palate got better as well, still a little sweetish but with quite some dried fruits and also herbal teas. Liquorice as well. The finish isn’t too long, alas, and again a little sweetish. Anyway, Glenglassaugh has never been a high-profile distillery, and this one isn’t bad at all. Perhaps just not as complex as what you’d expect from a malt that’s almost 30 years old. 80 points . MUSIC – Oldies but goldies: 1968, ex Marilyn Monroe boy friend Yves Montand sings A bicyclette - mp3 live. One of the old French songs I like best - excuse my frenchness. PETE McPEAT AND JACK WASHBACK December 4, 2005 VIDEO CLIP - Just found a fantastic old movie about the reopening of Scottish distilleries in 1933, after the prohibition. It's on the Scotsman's website, right there . TASTING - TWO LINKWOODS Linkwood 1991/2005 (46%, Wilson & Morgan, sherry wood)