Blair Athol (Ian McLeod) - Chieftain's Choice 25 years - 25 y.o. - 58,8%4
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- Bottler:
- Ian McLeod
- Age:
- 25 years
- Alcohol:
- 58,8%
- Collection:
- Chieftain's Choice
- Bottle details:
- distillation: 12-1976 bottling: 10-2002
- Hogshead
- cask nr:14326
- /186 bottles
- average
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- (82,54)
- price class:
4 notes disponibles en français
A very pleasant mix of sherry, malt and spices is delightful at the very first nosing. A slight touch of acidity mixed with some remote chocolate hints (probably the malt) is present too.
n the palate, the acidity dominates first, probably enhanced by the degree of alcohol, but this aggression feeling quickly makes place to a very nice complexity. The very first drop of water drives this aggression away, at the feeling in the mouth clearly develops to a very nice mixing of chocolate and sherry flavours. May be also some woody touches due to the age of the whisky, but this is not unpleasant.
The finish is lingering and the sherry hints of the first nosing are back. Here too the favourable influence of a drop of water is clear. The finish develops clearly on malt and even chocolate.
2005Is is clear that this is a good whisky who spent years and years in a sherry cast.
The nose detects immediately complex sherry notes, mixed with malted barley.
The palate is dominated by the alcohol feeling (it is a cask strength), but after having added a little water, this problem disappears rapidly, and a lot of new flavours appear.
A very long finish, sweet and sherryish crowns the very interesting bottling, interesting more from the taste point of view than from the economic point of view.It is rather expensive.
2004The nose is first slightly acid, with hints of prune and sherry. This acidity gives it a kind of freshness. Delicate floral touches are detected on the background. A rich nose, at least after the first impression of acidity has gone. In the palate, a very nice mix of fresh and acid notes.
A wonderful complexity, letting both marked sherry and pleasant woody notes express themselve. Just before some chocolate touches appear. Real fireworks of tastes in the mouth. The finish is warm, marked by the high percentage of alcohol, rather acid too. Light tinglings in the in the throat remain for a while.
2006During the second tasting, all the qualities describes above were present. However, the alcohol was less troublesome that time; A very great whisky.
2004
