tome
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If you were presented with a bottle of 50 yr old Linkwood, how would you choose to drink it and with whom?
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ParaHandy
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Re: Tasting notes ...
... for the '73 40%
"An oak explosion envelopes the olfactory senses. Sweet, mature and potent notes of baked custard, bourbon, marinated apricots, soft ripe melons dusted with light ginger and chocolate powder. Fresh oak, sawdust, crisp dry barleycorns, with underlying hazelnut and white chocolate. It finishes with deep pink, shower-moistened roses, suggesting meringue or Turkish Delight. A sublime sensory experience."
... that pretentious cobblers should put you off? pass it on to moi ... I promise to carefully look after a '54 40% ....
as far who to drink it with ... well ... first you offer those volunteering for this pleasure a 'grounder" in Famous Grouse with chaser of irn-bru (discard those who drink such); secondly something like .. oh, morangie; and so on, but keeping to Speys, such that you gradually build up to the denouement when the '54 is opened ... however: on no account open a Macallan during, after or before this test of discrimination. that would be a dreadful sin for, there can not be two glorious routes to nirvanna ...
(huv youse seen the price a '46 40% linkwood fetches? piffle & nonsense ...)
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... for the '73 40%
"An oak explosion envelopes the olfactory senses. Sweet, mature and potent notes of baked custard, bourbon, marinated apricots, soft ripe melons dusted with light ginger and chocolate powder. Fresh oak, sawdust, crisp dry barleycorns, with underlying hazelnut and white chocolate. It finishes with deep pink, shower-moistened roses, suggesting meringue or Turkish Delight. A sublime sensory experience."
... that pretentious cobblers should put you off? pass it on to moi ... I promise to carefully look after a '54 40% ....
as far who to drink it with ... well ... first you offer those volunteering for this pleasure a 'grounder" in Famous Grouse with chaser of irn-bru (discard those who drink such); secondly something like .. oh, morangie; and so on, but keeping to Speys, such that you gradually build up to the denouement when the '54 is opened ... however: on no account open a Macallan during, after or before this test of discrimination. that would be a dreadful sin for, there can not be two glorious routes to nirvanna ...
(huv youse seen the price a '46 40% linkwood fetches? piffle & nonsense ...)
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tome
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Re: Tasting notes ...
Douglas
Thankyou for the tasting notes, and for the inspired suggestions on volunteer selection. I'm away for a bottle of Famous Grouse and a couple of litres of Irn Bru.
Do I take it you're more of a Macallan man?
Tom
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Douglas
Thankyou for the tasting notes, and for the inspired suggestions on volunteer selection. I'm away for a bottle of Famous Grouse and a couple of litres of Irn Bru.
Do I take it you're more of a Macallan man?
Tom
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sailorman
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Re: Tasting notes ...
just finished my Macallan :- (
roll-on edna may Oostende again :- )
<hr width=100% size=1>Mines a Crocodile sandwich & make it Snappy
just finished my Macallan :- (
roll-on edna may Oostende again :- )
<hr width=100% size=1>Mines a Crocodile sandwich & make it Snappy
Shakey
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Re: Tasting notes ...
"An oak explosion envelopes the olfactory senses. Sweet, mature and potent notes of baked custard, bourbon, marinated apricots, soft ripe melons dusted with light ginger and chocolate powder. Fresh oak, sawdust, crisp dry barleycorns....etc."
What the hell do they put in the stuff? Industrial strength LSD?
<hr width=100% size=1>It could have been worse - it could have been me.
"An oak explosion envelopes the olfactory senses. Sweet, mature and potent notes of baked custard, bourbon, marinated apricots, soft ripe melons dusted with light ginger and chocolate powder. Fresh oak, sawdust, crisp dry barleycorns....etc."
What the hell do they put in the stuff? Industrial strength LSD?
<hr width=100% size=1>It could have been worse - it could have been me.
sailorman
Well-known member
Re: Tasting notes ...
Possibly
<hr width=100% size=1>Mines a Crocodile sandwich & make it Snappy
Possibly
<hr width=100% size=1>Mines a Crocodile sandwich & make it Snappy