Duncan Taylor Glen Scotia 1991 (19 year old) 57.6%
Bourbon Cask 71375/ Dist: May 1991 Btl: Apr 2010/ Tasted: Apr 2010
The nose opens with a waft of soft brine and soft botanical marc-like notes. As it gets into its stride the wonderful complexity of this dram becomes apparent, each time you put your nose into the glass a new aroma pop’s up – smoked meat, light peat smoke, bog myrtle, oat cakes, juicy orange fruit, honey, hints of parma violets and perfumed lavender water(?). The oak adds old toffee and hickory.
The palate begins like the nose with a soft briny quality followed by waxy, honeyed fruit and light peat smoke. It moves intoparmaviolet and soft botanical marc-like territory before an intense but brief hit of coal smoke clears the middle before the botanicals and herbal notes return. All the time the oak sits behind giving the malt a wonderful structure. Good length which leaves a salty, oat cake finish and the old wood notes on the after taste.
A drop of water emphasises the waxy fruit on the nose and the old polished wood. On the palate it becomes lighter, less complex and a lot sweeter, with the violets and lavender water becoming more noticeable and the old wood notes gripping the finish. A lovely old Campbeltown malt, that is best drunk neat.
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