Ben Nevis 1998 HiSp
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ben Nevis |
| Bottler | Hidden Spirits (HiSp) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | 2020 |
| Age | 21년 |
| Cask Type | Second Fill Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 55.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
세컨드필 셰리 버트가 21년 동안 벤 네비스의 두꺼운 스피릿에 과실과 왁스 같은 결을 천천히 입혔다. 향은 말린 무화과와 오렌지, 벤 네비스 특유의 기름진 왁스 향이 어우러진다. 55.4도의 입안에서는 건포도와 다크 토피, 가벼운 가죽이 두꺼운 질감으로 흐르며 셰리의 단맛이 곡물의 무게를 받친다. 도수가 풍미를 곧게 세운다. 짙은 호박빛 뒤로 여운은 마른 셰리와 견과가 길게 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
deep gold
air Nose
meats this time, soy sauce, jamon iberico, glutamate, bouillons, a little leather and some tobacco, then damp plaster and drops of Thai sauce. Look, I know there are probably thousands of different Thai sauces, but there, the red ones that you would pour over any stewed crab claw. What’s the name again? With water: perfect dry nose, or when the cask and the distillate did complement each other to perfection. Blue Mountain coffee, crude cocoa, old walnuts (no one in particular, lol), palo cortado, whiffs of exhaust fumes, umami sauce..; Could be that BN and dry oxidative sherry would just tango to perfection when the proportions are right
restaurant Palate
simply further fortified oloroso. Or distilled oloroso? I shall try to do that one day, as sherry’s become so cheap (which is totally unjust and would make you lose faith in the drinking mankind). With water: the rarest chocolates, the best coffees, and some just perfect salty, umami-y brown sauces
timer Finish
long and much saltier, with a bit of Ben Nevis’s trademark ‘soft’ dirtiness. So not just vanilla-ed ethanol. Monosodium glutamate