Clynelish 1991 vW The Ultimate

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Clynelish
Bottler	van Wees (vW)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1991
Bottled Year	2013
Age	-
Cask Type	Hogshead
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	43.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Highlands

Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Oaky

Sweet

Fruity

Honey

Creamy

Spicy

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Chocolate

Herbal

Smoky

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

full gold again, just a tad darker

air Nose

beautiful attack, with much more sherry (which means it’s much quicker to assault your nostrils – peacefully of course). Not too smoky, nor peaty, but superbly waxy, with lots of ‘natural’ turpentine (which I always cherish), tiger balm, wax polish. And now come the sea air, seaweed, almond milk. It’s a little bolder than the Provenance actually, which is incredible indeed. Hints of cider, bitter oranges, milk chocolate. This is perfection… After a few minutes, it even overwhelms the Provenance when putting both glasses under your nose. Plain crazy!

restaurant Palate

the attack is very similar to the nose in style, which is not so common. Lots of waxy notes, white pepper and nutmeg, and some superb oaky notes as well (it makes me think of a 100% new oak Montrachet just before bottling). Some caramel, liquorice stick, pepper sauce again. The peat is well here but it sort of hides behind all other flavours… Long, bold and balanced finish. In short, the nose is totally stunning (even more complex than the Provenance’s, no question), the mouth is extremely good but perhaps a tad less ‘satisfying’ than the Provenance’s. In a whole, I feel it’s worth exactly the same rating: 95 points . Tie! MUSIC – Blues - Recommended listening: new cat Shemekia Copeland (she's only 25) sings Getto Child.mp3 . Very classical but very beautiful. Please buy Shemekia Copeland's music! (photo: Larry Busacca) STARS - At least, we have the official picture, and en primeur at that! No, no, it's not that they are giving away a free bottle of whisky with each cupboard you buy, it's quite the contrary. This is the official picture of the new and delicious Glenfarclas 50 yo 1955 that I tasted recently - 93 points, no less. Thanks again, Malt Maniacs Belgium! (click the picture to have a closer look at it - don't worry it's free) I'm sorry , it's got nothing to do with whisky or music - rather disgust. The world has gone mad - especially some advertisers. Please click on 'Yahoo' at the right and you'll see... (does not lead to Yahoo, just a hardcopy). September 2, 2005 TASTING - FOUR YOUNG INDIE CLYNELISHES Clynelish 1991/2004 (43%, G&M Connoisseur’s Choice) One of the new CC’s, now bottled at 43% instead of 40%

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