Clynelish 1972 MM Mission - Selection Number One
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Clynelish |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1972 |
| Bottled Year | 2002 |
| Age | 30년 |
| Cask Type | Refill American Oak |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
air Nose
some nice sherry notes right at the start, that do not mask Clynelish’s character, though: wax, tropical fruits again, oranges… It's just slightly sulphury but nothing excessive
restaurant Palate
the attack is a bit tannic but not too much, with lots of icing sugar, fructose, and then, again, lots of various fruits (mango, guava, melon, pineapple, quince jelly etc.). An excellent one indeed, that offers much pleasure. 90 points . Clynelish 28 yo 1976/2004 (46%, Murray McDavid Mission IV) again, bunches of tropical fruits mixed with a nice sherry. Notes of Xmas cake, raisins… A very nice balance and quite some oomph in this one. A very nice one again, getting perhaps just a tad too dry, but the usual cleanliness, fruitiness and waxiness are well here. Much quaffable. 89 points . August 30, 2005 CONCERT REVIEW - JOSEPHINE FOSTER/ESPERS/DEVENDRA BANHART Concorde 2, Brighton UK, 9th August 2005 by Dave Broom Where’s that sound coming from? That high keening sound? The one that’s making me shiver. Her? Are her lips moving? God it’s hot. Not perhaps the best night to be at a sold-out gig inside a club whose idea of air conditioning is to open a side door to let more humid air in. But hey, it’s folk music, right? This’ll be back to the days of the floor-sitting, head-nodding, funny cigarette smoking days of the 70s. Not like we’ll be dancing ! As I said this is folk . I’ve even grown my beard a little longer to generate extra stroking potential ... and I’ve got sandals on. The Hawaiian shirt is, in retrospect a sartorial error. The top billing is Devendra Banhart, the new leader of this loosely- affiliated movement that’s seen folk raising its profile -- as it does every few years. The music is lo-fi, quiet, floorboard-creakingly intimate. He’s brought along two support acts and that’s the sound is coming from the first of them, Josephine Foster . It’s a wail, a melancholy cry .. and then the words come, in an mannered accent which seems like ancient English. You know these songs but have never heard them before. It is music so ancient that it seems part of you. If she was alive living in the 17th century she’d have been tied to a stake the moment she started to si