57,6°
Distillery : Imperial - Speyside
1st Fill Sherry Puncheon Cask
Independent Bottling
By Gordon & MacPhail
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2022
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Totally Unpeated
As time goes by, Imperial casks become rarer but also older. Here, Gordon & MacPhail has saved this one for a rainy day, 28 years old and bursting with Puncheon Sherry. It was released around a year ago in 544 bottles.
Let's Taste It :
Dried fruits and a gentle coastal breeze, a touch of iodine, apple and grape chutney, dry bark. Sweet spices, cinnamon and cardamom, beeswax, thick honey. Blood oranges. On the palate, a few tiny flaws, but it's still very pleasant, beaten butter, cooked apple juice, very ripe apricots. A pinch of pepper and cloves. Fruit cake with a dollop of pastry cream. A hint of tobacco on the tongue. Well-crafted finish, long and persistent, but not explosive, with sultanas, morello cherries, but also some cereals. A touch of vanilla.
In Short,
We're very close to an exceptional Imperial, but it lacks a little something on the palate. Some of the people I tasted it with found faults with the nose, but I did not. Others found no fault with it. In any case, it's a fine product, the Sherry is fairly discreet and gives way to the distillate, bringing out the fruits, the cinnamon and the sweetness. Very nice. It's still available, but the price hurts anyway.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
The Hoax - Swallow my Pride
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