Glen Albyn - First Cask 1979 - Highland - 27 year old 46% vol Ardbeg

Glen Albyn - First Cask 1979 - Highland - 27 year old 46% vol ArdbegThis is bottle 18, from cask 3952. Distilled 21st December 1979. From old tasting notes: on the nose tinned fruits in syrup mandarins or mixed fruit salad. On the palate there is poached pears a full bodied dram. The finish is long and vanilla influenced with honeysuckle. Colour: full gold. Nose: Lemon, musk and rosewater and chalk,switching to oranges and wax as well as newly cut grass and something like damp peat smoke plus mint. Gets surprisingly

its smooth bouquet and its fully developed aroma makes the German brandy an unmistakable experience

Christmas 2002

with a little smoke (or burnt cake) and notes of earl grey tea getting then more butterscotchy and honeyed

or with creamy pasta dishes

most of them illegal and carefully hidden from the eyes of the taxmen

Drink over ice

Even more liquorice

Original carton box

before the 'Three Star' classification became somewhat outdated

Mouth: Excellent attack

Catto's Rare Old 5 Year Old Blend – Tasting Notes

made to express a fruit-driven personality