Clynelish 1997 MM Aficionado

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Clynelish
Bottler	Murray McDavid (MM)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1997
Bottled Year	-
Age	14년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	56.9%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Highlands

Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Honey

Creamy

Fruity

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Chocolate

Smoky

Spicy

Herbal

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

the fino-ish sherry isn’t big and we rather have a typical, very austere, waxy/grassy and pretty smoky Clynelish at first sniffs. Cut grass, lamp oil, graphite, candle wax, dry cider, hay, fern… It’s a profile I like but it’s no sexy whisky. Well, maybe I like it because it’s not very sexy, after all… With water: more raw barley, which is wonderful. Cigar box, maybe a little hazelnut oil…

restaurant Palate

oily, quite huge and powerful, with a rather strong bitter/orangey sherry that’s quite uncommon in Clynelish. Campari? Bitter liqueurs? It’s really powerful, so water would be welcome… With water: doesn’t change much, it just gets more sippable. Bitter oranges, Corinthian raisins, touches of maraschino, more Campari (while we’re in Italy, err…) Also a slight fizziness, not uncommon in Clynelish. Lemon squash

timer Finish

long, on the same notes. Maybe very faint cologny and kirschy touches – possibly from the sherry - but that’s no problem in this context

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