Glenlivet 1959 CA Dumpy Brown Bottle - Black Label
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenlivet |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1959 |
| Bottled Year | 1985 |
| Age | 26년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Wood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
brown/mahogany
air Nose
haha, old sherry, soot and OBE with flying colours at first nosing! Could be any unpeated malt, such is the sherry’s ‘heaviness’ here. Loads of coffee and chocolate, walnut liqueur, a little spearmint, hints of very old cognac, ham and something pleasantly metallic. Extreme profile that I didn’t find in any recent bottling, this one was probably from a true sherry cask (no seasoned custom-built ‘sherry’ casks). Superb dryness but let’s check the palate, maybe it’s too dry…
restaurant Palate
it’s not. Granted, it is very dry and starts all on bitter chocolate, but the development is long and gripping. Liquorice, ashes, shoe polish (not that I eat that every morning), natural tar sweets or pine tar liqueur (tried once, never forgotten!), coffee beans, cardamom… Also something that I unknowingly tried one day, and I’m sure you’ll find this pretty ridiculous: dried ant abdomens like they have in Brazil. Please don’t quote me on this, thanks
timer Finish
medium long, just as dry and still extremely chocolaty