Glenrothes 1979
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenrothes |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1979 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
ho-ho, but this is just as beautiful – maybe even more beautiful – yet completely different. It starts much more resinous, waxy and orangey (marmalade), with whiffs of fresh putty, cough syrup and even a little tar and rubber (bicycle inner tube). Then it starts to smell just like an orange cake that you just sliced, then it’s back to Vicks Vaporub, then tobacco, then fresh tropical fruits (bananas, passion, mangos), then old pu-erh tea, then old roses and Muscat wine... All that isn’t violent, rather subtle but very assertive with, good news, no excessive woodiness whatsoever. Extraordinary nose, but like with all these old casks, the true truth will lie on the palate… Let’s see…
restaurant Palate
just like the Hart’s, the attack is a little shy but certainly cleaner and fruitier… And just like the Hart, it does get livelier after a few seconds, although never bold. Subtly fruity (plantain, very ripe apples and pears), delicately spicy (nutmeg and cinnamon, white pepper), vanilled… It’s all slightly fragile but certainly not ‘broken’. There’s a little pipe tobacco in the background, notes of quince jelly, earl grey tea… The finish isn’t too long, as expected, but very elegant, still fresh, with a delicate oaky signature. In a nutshell, an old Highland Park that’s maybe a little diaphanous on the palate but that has got one of the most stunning noses I’ve encountered in the recent months. In other words, a HP by Chanel. 92 points . PETE McPEAT AND JACK WASHBACK MUSIC – Recommended listening: Karen Mantler is the daughter of the great Carla Bley and trumpetist Mike Mantler. Today she's singing a much beautiful How to.mp3 with David Garland (whom we already heard not so long ago). Please buy Karen Mantler's music - and David Garland's too while you're at it. May 1, 2007 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan HARRY CONNICK JR. AND HIS BAND Radio City Music Hall, New York, April 21st 2007 Move over King Kong – stand aside Empire State Building, for I have seen the eighth wonder of the world and it’s a few blocks away on Sixth, the Radio City Music Hall . And for all the times I’ve walked past its neon-drenched exterior I’ve never been in, and never anticipated just what a breathtakingly glorious monument to modern music it is. This art deco masterpiece was opened in 1932, part of the Rockefeller Centre development, which I read (in a book!) “in its architecture stands as distinctly for New York as the Louvre stands for Paris”. But it’s the striking deco interior that would really blow you away. Designed by Donald Deskey (who was also responsible for, among other things, the Tide detergent logo and the original Crest toothpaste tube) it features a cavernous atrium and an au
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