Colour: Shiny trumpet
Flavour: Spicy & sweet
All of us stepped back in time into a good old fashioned hardware store with well looked after worn oak floorboards. We purchased a handful of nails out of a bucket and noticed in the corner a heavy metal letter press dating back to the Industrial Revolution. We were then offered a ’pint of eighty’ out of an antique pewter tankard, ate Dundee cake and marshmallows whilst admiring a Meccano model steam locomotive. For a glass of water we moved into the manager’s office, new carpets, a freshly polished oak table and rosemary roasted mixed nuts in a hammered copper bowl.
Drinking tip: Whilst rummaging through the attic
Vintage 22.09.2003
Bottled 2014
Age 10 years old
Cask type 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel
Number of bottles 211
One of the joys of having Paula pick out my drams while visiting the SMWS is that she has started to tune into some of the distillery codes. Number 7 is her favourite, Longmorn distillery up in Speyside. We have sampled several #7’s in our time, here is another that was recently available at SMWS The Vaults in Leith.
Yellow old gold
Sweet floral, rose, Turkish delight, jelly babies (fruit jellies covered in icing sugar), some herbal rosemary
Sweet sugary and effervescent citric sherbet fizz, strong coppery metallic, nutty, almond and hazelnut, planed oak wood and sawdust with light toffee and caramel notes
Medium length, tempered sweetness with lemon pith and grapefruit zest
A young Longmorn with rather a lot of copper/metal influence and plenty of oak wood. There are some floral, fruit and sweet elements we classically associate and love from Longmorn in here too. Not bad for only 10 years old.
64.51 'Tuck-time in a stately home' (SMWS) 55.8%, £87.20 for 70cl available from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society Score: 85/100 What they say: The nose, with polished wood, oiled cricket bats and flowers, was like entering a stately home – once inside we were offered Moffat toffees, Turkish Delight, Crunchie…
In "85 points"
1.186 A stroll in the Luxemburg Gardens Single malt scotch whisky 57% ABV, £46.10 for 70cl Score: 84/100 What they say: Cask No. 1.186 A mellow nose with apple pie and artificial fruity sweets called ‘Midget Gems’; a warm day in May, with mimosa, grass clippings and nectarines, pine sap,…
In "84 points"
Longmorn 13 Years Old 1996 - The Carn Mor Vintage Collection (Carn Mor) 46% ABV, £14 for 20cl Score: 77/100 What they say: Distilled in 1996 at the Speyside distillery of Longmorn and matured in a bourbon hogshead Cask number 156794 for 13 years before bottling in 2009. This bottle was…
In "77 points"
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