I W Harper Gold Medal Bot.1960s
I W Harper Gold Medal
75cl / 43%
This one is a multi-vintage version (from 5 to 8 years old, which means 5 years old I guess) and it’s been unfinished. I’d bet unfinished will soon be the new unchilfilttered or uncaramelised in Scotland. The Scots are always extremely good at selling something they do not do, aren’t they, and we punter are ready to pay more for that. Enough ramblings. Colour: straw. Nose: Port Charlotte in its naked truth, and believe me it’s an entrancing truth. We’re far from many attempts at making peated malt at distilleries that usually don’t do peat (not specifically accusing anybody here of course, and of course not Arran), or maybe is it because Bruichladdich used to be peated in the old days?
This is beautifully clean and superbly mineral, with some paraffin (nice paraffin. Not the paraffin that can suggest a flaw), graphite, coal, linseed oil, even motor oil, wet rocks, a little raw wool, earth, then a little fresh mint. And dill… gets then sootier, in a perfect manner. A very mineral Riesling-malt, which I just cannot not love.
Water: pass. Mouth: probably a little less zingy than in the nose. And certainly fruitier, with even unexpected notes of rum (rather white). Other than that it’s rather more medicinal than expected, slightly camphory, briny, liquoricy, getting ashier and sootier again after a while. I W Harper Gold Medal Bot.1960s
Some liquorice wood as well. Maybe wee tad less distinctive than on the nose but it’s still rather perfect. Finish: it’s long, clean, warming, rather more herbal and minty. An earthy rootiness in the aftertaste. Comments: not just peat, Port Charlotte. I’m sure you see what I mean. This with two or three more years will make it above 90 in my book, sure bet (as I’m sure any 9 or 10yo 2001 would)
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