Connoisseurs Choice / 1978 - Whisky Magazine

Connoisseurs Choice

Aberfeldy

1978

ABV 40%
REVIEWED Issue 11

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Specifications

Brand: Aberfeldy, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice
Expression: 1978
Type: Scotland Whisky / Single Malt
Age: No Age Statement
Year of bottling: 1998
ABV: 40%
Country/Region: Scotland / Highland
Bottling type: Independent Bottling

Tasting notes

Taster Jim Murray

Nose: Stupendous aroma: a posy of lilacs and blue bells which is heady and rich.
Palate: Drier than the nose suggests with an early arrival of firm oak. Sweetens as the malt arrives.
Finish: Decent bitter-sweet balance which perhaps levels out on the former but always with a barley-sugar undercurrent.
Comment: Held its age well and another gem for the sweet-toothed. Excellent.

8.5

Taster Michael Jackson

Nose: Still very fresh, but drier, with a touch more smokiness, and no obvious sherry.
Palate: Oilier. Very tangerine-like. Sweeter. Scenty. More complex.
Finish: Attractively appetising late echo of peat smoke.
Comment: Delicate but not bland. Real subtlety. Very mature, but not a hint of wood. A Highlander, but blindfold I would have placed it as a Speysider.

7.8

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