Clynelish 1997 WD
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Clynelish |
| Bottler | Whisky-Doris (WD) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Bottled Year | 2007 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 59.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
dark amber
air Nose
this is another story. First, it’s not overpowering – would you believe that! Second, it starts very ‘funnily’, on a mix of strawberry jam and ‘good sulphur’ (gunpowder, matches and all that jazz), getting then more apricoty, and even jammier (truckloads of figs). And then... We’ll need water indeed. So, with water: immense, albeit very pleasant sulphur and rubber. Brand new tyres and a whole box of lit matches, the whole fading away after a few seconds, leaving room for rather beautiful apricoty and herbal notes (rosemary, sage). Also prune sauce again, soy sauce, smoked tea, bitter chocolate and the obligatory hints of mint. Unusual and extremely interesting, exactly the opposite of its sibling I’d say. Something very Chinese, whatever that means
restaurant Palate
powerful of course, but sort of drinkable I’d say. Praline, jam, chocolate... No, no, this is too hot. Water is obligatory unless you take just a pinhead at a time (do you say that in English?) With water: oh yes, that was needed. Gets amazingly compact yet rich, on a whole cortege of dried and crystallised fruits (notably oranges, figs, lemons and dates) plus an unexpected smokiness. Smoked dried fruits (somebody should invent that)
timer Finish
long, with the rubber returning now, as well as the notes of gunpowder. Not that I ever ate gunpowder, eh!