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Product Description
A joint bottling of 1964 vintage whisky from Girvan from The Whisky Agency and our lovely selves. Not only is this from the first year of Girvan's operation (they started on Christmas Day 1963) but it's also a 48yo sherried grain whisky, something you rarely see. It's been getting great reviews and we're rather pleased with it.
Product Facts
Product Facts
Bottler
The Whisky Agency
Series
Fights
Age
48 Year Old
Vintage
1964
Bottling Date
2012
No of Bottles
487
Country
Scotland
Region
Lowland
Cask Type
Sherry
Chill Filtered
No
Colouring
No
Girvan 1964 48 Year Old Whisky Agency & Whisky Exchange
70cl / 49.5%
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Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes
Tasting notes by Tim F
Nose
The purest old oak: antiquarian bookstores, old church pews, leather armchairs in a gentleman's club - very sweet, rich sherry, raisins, some balsamic vinegar, then grainy woodglue notes, dried slices of coconut, rich sweet bananas baked with brown sugar... basically a very venerable aged spirit still showing plenty of life.
Palate
Big spicy oak attack, then dry tannins and heavy treacle notes, moving into highly-concentrated Christmas cake, raisins soaked in rum, autumn leaves, warm spices including cinnamon, dried ginger, clove and a hint of dried chilli. A small dribble of water tames the spices and lifts fig rolls, raisin syrup and ginger snap biscuits.
Finish
Big and rich. Quite spicy and drying as one expects, with the oak dominant without being totally overpowering.
Comment
A long-aged spirit from the very best type of old sherry oak. Hugely characterful and hugely enjoyable.
Tastings Notes by WhiskyFun (Serge Valentin)
Colour
Amber.
Nose
Well, no whisky, rum. It’s true that very old spirits (whisky, cognac, rum…) tend to converge but indeed, this really smells like some old rum of very fine quality. Touches of pencil shavings, raisins, bananas flambéed, vanilla, coconut, café latte, oak smoke, Demerara sugar… well, Demerara indeed! Really curious about the palate, it should be less ‘rummy’….
Mouth
Ho-ho, it’s less rummy for sure but rummy it remains. High mentholated extraction, sugar cane (rather rum agricole), liquorice, bags of raisins, angelica, Cointreau and very sweet coffee. The whole is warming and pretty creamy, it’s even got something ‘Bailey’ (please do not shoot!) After ten minutes: more ‘arranged rum – rather toward pineapple in rum. As always, it’s also got something slightly bourbony.
Finish
Long and spicier, as expected. White pepper, ginger and cloves, with an aftertaste that makes me think of Compass Box’ Orangerie. That’s funny!.
Comments
A lovely concoction, greatly both rummy and liqueury, eminently drinkable. No ideas as for the price but if it’s fair and if you haven’t got any old grain in the house, well, I know what I would do.
SGP
642 - 90 points.
Comment
A Germanobritt joint bottling.
