1979 Glenlivet, Single Cask, 31 Year Old. Bottled for Mackillop’s Choice wines

1979 Glenlivet, Single Cask, 31 Year Old. Bottled for Mackillop’s Choice winesColour: Gold. Nose: Honeydew, mead, sweet malt, overripe apples. Mouth (neat): indeed, liquid honey plus high end cider and just a touch of sour wood. Perfect, fresh, fruity, herbal, zesty, and yet Glenlivet luscious. With water: perfect malty goodness! More grass, leaves, peelings, tobacco,menthol And some liquorice! Finish: Long, even maltier. Comments: Great stuff, aged to perfection.

We have mostly bananas

Lots of herbal tea

Captain Morgan The Original Rum is blended according to an age-old recipe of rums from Jamaica

without being jammy

Hints of burnt toasts

Some bitter chocolate too

and leathery finish sets it apart from more conventional expressions

Traditional grape varieties are sourced from the Quinta do Retiro estate and neighbouring growers in the Rio Torto Valley

Pride of Strathspey' is an old series of bottlings of Macallan by the hugely-respected independent bottlers Gordon & MacPhail

Nose: Aromas of ripe peach marmalade

a little olive oil

considerable length