Clynelish 1989 GM Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Clynelish |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1989 |
| Bottled Year | 2002 |
| Age | 12년 |
| Cask Type | Refill Sherry |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
good, this is immense. It’s not immense because of the alcohol, that part is relatively low, it’s immense because of all the shoe polish, the waxes, the soot, the pitch, the almonds and then the various oils. That’s what’s striking, the notes of oils such as graphite, linseed, olive… It’s almost like putting your nose into the exhausts of an old Aston Martin (haha). There’s even a touch of vegetables. Maybe beans? Also hay in a warm summer day. Let’s move on if you please…
restaurant Palate
the most intense whisky at 40% vol. I could ever try. This baby was a little closed when we opened it with some good friends up there on location, but now it’s doing ‘the peacock’s tail’ and the flavours are totally stunning (if you like waxy dry whiskies, that is, if you’re rather into bananas or maple syrup you’ll probably hate this). Where was I? So yeah, oils again, coal, tar liqueur (we shall try the rare Clacquessin soon on WF!), oysters, cigar ashes, teas of all sorts, these touches of vegetables again (I’d say artichokes this time), old cough syrup (the eucalyptus side never stops growing, like in many very old whiskies in my experience). Oh well, better call the anti-maltoporn brigade!
timer Finish
all right, all right, it’s maybe not extremely long, but the cleanliness is amazing. It’s akin to the finish of the fifth waters of an ultra-old pre-Mao Pu-erh tea from the seventh sacred mountain. Right, I just made that up
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