The Whisky Fair 37y,50.2%(1970-2008)

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Single Speyside Malt 37 yo 1970/2008 (50.2%, The Whisky Fair)

Colour: amber. Nose: this is powerful and displays notes of a rather typical ‘smoked’ dry sherry. Goes on with Corinth raisins, bitter chocolate, blackcurrant leaves tea, hints of kirsch, then a slight meatiness (beef stock, barbecue) as well as some strong honey. Gets smokier and smokier (wood smoke), with also hints of flor (walnuts), and then meatier. Slight sulphur as well but more towards gunpowder. Mouth: it’s more the fruits than the sherry that play first parts here, as the attack happens on various fruit liqueurs and jams. Strawberries, blood oranges, crystallised tangerines… There’s as little rubber behind all that as well as notes of barbecue mix (Provence herbs, oregano and such) and quite some wood. Gets really cleaner after a good while, the rubber vanishing and more herbs coming through (a little verbena, liquorice, aniseed…) Finish: long, on oranges and tea with quite still some liquorice. Comments: very good but you have to give this one time, so that the rubber dissolves – not that there’s a lot of rubber. Big but not heavy. SGP:752 - 88 points.