Adelphi Glenturret 1988

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Glenturret has perhaps the best claim to being Scotland's oldest operating distillery. The bulk of the whisky goes into blends like Famous Grouse. This 1988 single cask was filled into an Ex-Bourbon Hogshead and has been bottled after 25 years at 51.8%. 

Andrew's Tasting Note

Nose: an assortment of all Jelly Belly flavours, Wine Gums and rich sherry notes; some classic Christmas cake, cinnamon hearts and candied finger and black licorice Nibbs; wet leather and Fruit Source bars.

Palate: big but balanced sherry notes; more Wine Gums, a fist full of assorted Jelly Bellys all at once, more Fruit Source and building spices: more cinnamon hearts, candied ginger and licorice; leathery with tobacco and antique sherry notes.

Finish: long, fruity, spicy and leathery with cigar tobacco.

Producer's Description: "Vivid butterscotch to start, fading through mild cheese, possibly cheese cloth or an old dairy, then eucalyptus and sandalwood.  Very old fashioned.  Dampness in a traditional dunnage maturation warehouse (full of old sherry butts).  Hessian coal sacks. Very sweet to start, drying with more hessian and a mouth cooling eucalyptus.  Water emphasises cream cheese and old warehouses - an increasingly old fashioned style of whisky.  The hessian is now soaked in old whisky, more like bung cloth. Sweet to start, then distinctly savoury - the elusive Umami? A remarkable rare old whisky."

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