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Speyside Blended Malt 1973 / 45 Year Old / Whisky Show 2019
Product Description

Released at Whisky Show 2019 as part of our Magic of the Cask series, this 1973 Speyside blended malt has been matured in a single sherry butt for 45 years, before being bottled in 2019. Aromas of brown sugar and fruitcake open on the nose, followed by brown bread with butter, maraschino cherries, raisins, cinnamon-baked apples, dried mango and rich, earthy aromas. The palate offers notes of toasted oak, baked apples, sultanas, bitter char, soft spice and light fruitcake.

Style

Style

  • 4
    Body
  • 3
    Richness
  • 0
    Smoke
  • 4
    Sweetness
Character

Character

  • Character - Cinnamon Cinnamon
  • Character - Nutmeg Nutmeg
  • Character - Fruit Cake Fruit Cake
  • Character - Sultana Sultana
  • Character - Cherry Cherry
  • Character - Apple Apple
Product Facts

Product Facts

  • Bottler Icon

    Bottler

    Distillery Bottling

  • Series Icon

    Series

    Whisky Show 2019

  • Age Icon

    Age

    45 Year Old

  • Vintage Icon

    Vintage

    1973

  • Bottling Date Icon

    Bottling Date

    2019

  • No of Bottles Icon

    No of Bottles

    549

  • Country Icon

    Country

    Scotland

  • Region Icon

    Region

    Speyside

  • Cask Type Icon

    Cask Type

    Sherry Butt

  • Cask Number Icon

    Cask Number

    6

Speyside Blended Malt 1973 45 Year Old Whisky Show 2019

  • Speyside Blended Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Distillery Bottling

70cl / 45.1%

5 (2 Reviews)

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£625

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes

  • Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

    • Nose

      Brown sugar and light fruitcake lead: Mr Kipling's Country Slices with a side-order of brown bread and butter. Darker, savoury notes slowly build, with char and singed raisins balanced by rich earthiness and old-Cognac rancio. Fruit sits at the core: maraschino cherries, plump raisins, baked apples, wine-poached pears and a hint of dried mango.

    • Palate

      Venerable but fresh – old oak is poised against sweet baked apples; sultanans balance bitter char. Soft spice builds across the palate: brown sugar and nutmeg lead to the fruit from the nose. The fruitcake is back and remains light, sprinkled with crunchy crystals of sugar. Thick damp oak and fragrant riverbank earthiness provide a backbone.

    • Finish

      Brown sugar lingers, accopanied by char and a parade of fruit: apples, sultanas and, finally, sticky raisins.

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Customer Reviews

5 (2 Reviews)

  • 5

    Guy Ransom

    My (whisky loving) friends and I first encountered this gem at the 2019 whisky show. We all agreed that it demonstrated its 45 year aging in every sip - velvet smooth, rich and utterly delicious. You get moderate oak, sufficient but not cloying sweetness... the sense of a well baked apple subtly caressed with spice and a few sultanas thrown in for good measure. I bought a bottle then and have kept it to share (sparingly) with my most loyal (and whisky appreciating) friends since. Every return sip has reminded us just how good the first was... and puts the remainder of my (very decent) whisky cupboard to shame. At the Whisky Show this year I tried something that pretty much equalled it... a 40 year old Fettercairn... also delicious. The difference however, the Fettercairn is £3500 a bottle. I can only say that for £425 this is ridiculous. I have just bought 2 more bottles as I have no intention of running out of this any time soon.

  • 5

    Anonymous

    Extraordinary for the price. Fabulous.