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Adelphi Dalmore 1990 17yo Sherry
700ml 59.70% |
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A big, soft & cuddly, slightly oily (in a good sense) fully matured in refilled sherry butts. Plenty of dried fruit, sponge cake and even rice pudding flavours and textures to balance up the lively alcohol. Now owned by Whyte & Mackay.
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Adelphi Glen Elgin 1978 30yo
700ml 46.90% |
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Classically, Glen Elgin's are intense, spice rich with just a dusting of peat. This ancient offering from Adelphi does not disapoint. Even at this extreme age those hallmark characters still shine through.
Alex from Adelphi was only able to retrieve 159 bottles from the cask. It smells of balsamic, apricots, figs and of course old wood notes, it'e even been compared to the smell of an old library. On the palate, it's rich and sumptuous but still shows a degree of intensity not seen in a malt with this age. Plenty of pear, plum & tobacco notes & acurious hint of mint. Lingering.
Proved to be one of the highlights at the 2009 Rob Roy Hotel's Ancient Whisky Degustation.
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Adelphi Glen Elgin 1991 16yo
700ml 55.10% |
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Another big sherry monster from the independent house of Adelphi. Big chewy & sweet. And again, its another Diageo distillery.
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Adelphi Glen Grant 1985 23yo
700ml 55.90% |
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Some of the finest single malts I have ever tried are old Glen Grants, so it is always with interest when I spy one in the market place. This offering from Alex Bruce at Adelphi comes amazingly from a first fill ex bourbon cask. This malt is lush, mouthfilling and chocked up with toffee, butterscotch, raspberry jam, milk chocolate & coconut. But don't be fooled, the malt still shines through, the alcohol definitely adds zest & lift and the length is long and lush, with a slight coconut finish.
Alex only managed to squeeze 191 bottles from this cask.
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Adelphi Glen Scotia Bourbon 1991 14yo
700ml 61.60% |
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Once a rival to the other Campbeltown distiller Springbank, but now sits quitly in the background. This is a very strident malt, massive attack & alcoholic intensity. Not quite the after dinner dram I was looking for when I was last in Hobart. More pre-dinner on raging, stormy beach.
Certainly not for the feint hearted!
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Adelphi Glenrothes Sherry 2000 6yo
700ml 56.50% |
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I should have bought heaps of this truly marvellous single malt. It was only a 6yo, the sherry oak, malt and alcohol were seamlessly married to palate that was lush, flavoursome and highly complex. Very complete, very magnificent.
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Adelphi Linkwood 1989 18yo Sherry
700ml 55.60% |
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Another big Diageo distillery little seen as either an official or independent bottling. First fill European oak puncheon, plenty of ginger bread & ginger snap, brown sugar, baked fruit cake and tobacco flavours. Quite sweet with even a hint of drying tannin.
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Adelphi Macallan Sherry 1990 16yo
700ml 57.40% |
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I can never go pass an old fashioned Macallan sherry malt, and this one from the chaps at Adelphi does not disappoint. More zesty Fino than sweet Oloroso but still with Macca's hallmark spicy orange and bitter marmalade flavours. Dustily dry finish.
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Adelphi Mortlach 1990 17yo Sherry
700ml 57.50% |
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Mortlach! Big, old fashioned, lots of leather armchairs, pipe smoke, with a spaniel at your heels. As one scribe described it, "a big, treacly, alcoholic Christmas cake". First fill sherry cask maturation as well.
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Adelphi Strathmill 1976 31yo Bourbon
700ml 44.80% |
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As Alex from Adelphi told me on the phone, "Apart from two butts of 25yo that were released in 1992 and the old Flora & Fauna bottling in 2001, Strathmill has never been bottled by its proprietor, let alone the independents." And I have to say, this bottling is a treat: The colour of old Sauternes, smelling of Madeira cake and glace cherries and tasting for all the world like coffee beans dipped in chocolate. Soft, mellow & sweet.
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Alchemist Bowmore 9yo
700ml 46.00% |
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$112.00 |
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Young, bright, medium peat with that famous Bowmore silky, oily texture. For a youngster this dram has plenty of charachter and loads of charm: sweet floral notes, soft smoke, rounded and clean with a fruity finish.
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Alchemist Bruichladdich 12yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Drawing on his previous association with the new owners of Bruichladdich, Gordon Wright (and yes, he is a Wright of Springbank) has picked up a stunner: a malt that is zesty, crisp and citrusy & lots of coastal sea air flavours all wrapped up in creamy American oak. Very clean, very fresh, very dinkable.
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Alchemist Caol Ila 10yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Another smokey Caol Ila that does not disappoint. briny, hints of the seaside, a bit of kelp here, a whiff of ozone there, coastal vegetation, a quite rich & oily palate texture that works amazingly well with bourbon's vanilla oak. The finish is citrusly zesty and lingering. NIce one!
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Alchemist Highland Park 15yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Not often you see an Indie version of Highland Park. This 15yo is bright, fresh with plenty of spicy peat and tang of the sea. Initially intensive, but the middle palate if filled up with soft, creamy vanilla toffee flavours & textures. The finish is long and briny. Great stuff.
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Alchemist Highland Park Calvados 16yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Son of "Apple Mac" returns as Alchemist Gordon Wright further matures a very honey rich & smokey 14yo Highland Park on Droin's exquisite Calvados barrels for an additional 2 years!
Once again, the apple flavours are those associtaed with baked apples & tarte tartin. Rich, unctuous & mouthfilling. And just to add an even further degree of complexity, the Calvados barrels originally contained port & sherry!
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Alchemist Macallan 10yo
700ml 46.00% |
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$112.00 |
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This Macallan is bourbon oak matured, it's big on the malt, very fruity in an orange sort of way (typical Macallan) and the palate can best be described as pure silk. Good choice of barrel Gordon!
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Alchemist Macallan 15yo
700ml 46.00% |
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This 15yo Macallan from the Alchemist is fully sherry matured, so there is plenty of dried fruits, the palate is plump and richly textured, the finish is long and smooth.
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Alchemist Macallan 18yo
700ml 46.00% |
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This has to be the best value malt in the entire catalogue! Look at it...its a Macca 18yo that's been fully matured in sherry oak! Now be warned, it's not a big old dark Oloroso style, as this one has been matured in fresh sherry casks. And I suspect those casks are European oak that either contained the salty Amontildado or finer and drier Fino style of sherry.
There's plenty of spicy dried fruit and sherbet confectionary characters on the nose. On the palate there is also Macallan's famed spirit plumpness & sweetness, but then the big spice attack starts. It's quite extraordinary, very intense and drying. A combination of white pepper, cinnamon and other kitchen spices with a hint pear and melon.
This driving spice just pushes the flavours right down the palate, the length and precesion of this malt is extraordinary. The finish is vaguely sweet yet dry.
Fabbo!
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Alchemist Macallan Apple Mac 16yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Could this be the first top dressed/double matured Macallan we have ever seen? here Gordon Wright marries the famed Macallan spirit in some pretty special Dom Christian Droin Calvados (ex sherry) casks. The result is very pleasing as it surprising. And it sold out very quickly.
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Blackadder Raw Cask Glen Elgin 1991 17yo
700ml 57.30% |
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Say hello to Robin Tucek: whisky nut, whisky author, whisky bottler and one helluva excellent fellow! Raw Cask is as the name suggests, his cask strength range. And first up, is his single cask offering of the famously maritime malt Glen Elgin. This is a big sweety of a 17yo and comes from a refill sherry cask. This malt shows plenty of fruitiness and creamy malt, it's edium to light bodied, but the alcohol gives the palate a degree of firmness.
And watch out! There's plenty of sediment in the bottom of the bottle. (Pic indicative only)
Robin's Notes:
Nose: Very sweet, orange marmalade, melon and touches of peat smoke.
Taste: Rich and sweet with lots of fruit; oranges, plums and well balanced with oaky vanillas.
Finish: Long with an almost butterscotch sweetness before drying out to leave satisfying vanilla tannins.
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