Scotland, Speyside: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Speyside:

Convalmore

Distillery description Tasting notes

The distillery

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The whisky

List of the bottles

	Convalmore
			Sample
O.B.	28 years	19
	Rare Malts 24 years	18
Scott's Selection	Scott's Selection 1975	18 1/2
Ian McLeod	Dun Bheagan 15 years		17

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Convalmore 1977 - 2005 Limited edition
Age	28 years
Alcohol percentage	57,9%
Bottlers	Official
Price/litre

The nose is unusually expressive, very floral with very nice hints of fruit (coconut, banana, mango, apple). A real invitation... Very far from the discretion of lots of whiskies, and very far from the aggressiveness of many others. In the palate, a wonderful complexity, starting on slightly acid notes (citrus fruit) which are soon replaced by a kind of alcohol feeling, fading rapidly to make room for some very nice smooth malty notes combined to fine woody hints. A nice finish, lingering and warm, with a pleasant mix of nutty hints and citrus fruit, and finally coconut despite quite a strong alcohol feeling.

An exceptional nose. Some mix of coconuts with sweet spices, with strong medicinal hints quickly disappearing after a few aeration minutes.
In the palate, when the first alcoholic impression is away, a very nice complexity, allying fine woody hints to malty smoothness. Relative smoothness however, due to the high percentage of alcohol, and a bit in contradiction with some discrete citrus hints. The finish is amazingly long and rich. Coconut mixes delicately with wood and citrus fruit. Really a very nice bottle.

Convalmore 1978 - 2003 Rare Malts 24 yo
Age	24 years
Alcohol percentage	59,4%
Bottlers	Official
Price/litre

A nice fruity and slighlty smoky nose. Some spices on the background and some smells somewhere between musty ones and mushrooms in a humid undergrowth. In the mouth, a nice but paradowal impression of citrus freshness and old wood. The taste developes constantly between those extremes. This makes it rather complex. The percentage of alcohol does not hinder. The finish is nice too, warm and woody, but however a bit short.

Convalmore 1975 Scott's selection
Age	29 years
Alcohol percentage	49,3%
Bottlers	Scotts Selection
Price/litre

A rather clear nose, mixing citrus and malt, slightly pungent. In the mouth, a mix of honey and acid citrus with a walnut taste on the background. A very nice balance between smoothness, bitterness and acidity gives this whisky a very pleasant complexity. A very nice finish, lingering and between cereal and chocolate.

A very nice nose, marked by a kind of freshness, somewhere between mint and citrus fruit. In the palate, a marvelous impression of complexity, with tastes simultaneously dominated by citus like acid notes and very smooth hints of honey, developing rather quickly on chocolate and malt with an amazing impressin of very fine wood. The whole is very subtle. A finish of great distinction, very complex and very long, but really very long, which brings pleasure to a rather unknown high level.

Convalmore 1983-1998 Dun Bheagan (Blind tasting 2006)
Age	15 years
Bottler	Ian McLeod

A vegetal fresh nose. I would say some cut nettle, which smell is more spiced as that of grass. It is less acid too. Some pepper and may be some fruity hints.
In the palate, smoothness and chocolate notes. Rather straight, this whisky develops on a rather limited however quite interesting taste palette. Malt and sweetness.
The finish is warm and quit long, but rather straight too, which is coherent with the nose and mouth.

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