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Uit: WF 1 maart 2012:
"Coleburn 28 yo 1971/1999 (50%, Douglas Laing, Old Malt Cask, 198 bottles)
Colour: straw. Nose: we aren’t far from the 1968 but this is less expressive and more on milk and porridge at first nosing. Tapioca, oatcakes, then more soot and grass, green tea, fresh mushrooms... Also whiffs of chives and rosemary, wet gravel, fresh cement and then more and more cut grass. Austere, very austere… With water: more grass and a little custard. Clay. Mouth (neat): certainly creamier and fruitier than the 1968, with more lemon and orange zests on top of the very grassy and spicy profile. Capsicum again, juniper berries, grapefruits, earth, fresh mushrooms, peat… In truth, it’s quite a beast. With water: it got wonderful! Perfect earthy style, with just the right amount of pepper and smoke and many candied lemons and kumquats in the background. Finish: very long, on lemon zests, pepper and even a little wasabi.
Comments: not quite a nosing whisky but the palate, the palate! SGP:473 - 88 points."
Uit: Whisky-on line febr. 2012
Coleburn 1971-1999. 28yo. Douglas Laing OMC. 198 Bottles. 50%. 70cl.
Colour: Dull gold
Nose: Beautiful, a stunning and nervous bubble of wax, minerals, honey, garden fruits and ground white pepper. Classically old highland in style, the kind of aroma that can only be found in these old style distillates that have a healthy amount of age in refill wood behind them. Further notes of pollen, wild flowers, an extractive saltiness, linseed oil, wet rags, more flinty mineral qualities and white stone fruit aspects. Very reminiscent of Clynelish, or possibly Banff, from the same era. If only there were more Coleburns around to see how consistent this character was. It goes on with putty, boiled cereals, pencil shavings and little touches of wood smoke. Resinous, complex and pretty spectacular in all.
Palate: Hmmm, that’s a shame, the palate is immediately quite over-extracted, lots of notes of black tea, mushrooms, cardboard and earth. Hits of wax, mould and olive oil as well. Very big notes of tea here, milky tea and soft spices with some quite aggressive tannins in there as well. Not particularly enjoyable it’s sad to say. Butter, rotten orange peel, muesli, sultanas, sour dough, marmite and wood. It’s very bitter and quite astringent really, I think a dodgy cask has been at play here or something.
Finish: Long but still very extractive., cardboardy, teaish and bitter.
Comments: What a shame. The nose was enthralling and beautiful, it’s so bizarre how utterly different the palate was. Everything about the nose said this was going to be 92/93 points material but the palate really dragged it down. It’s a great shame because I have a big soft spot for Coleburn, I have tried several others that are pretty fantastic, if there was an award for greatest indifference felt towards a closed distillery then that would surely go to Coleburn.
Score: 75/100 (but the nose is 92 easily)
Trouwens, leuk dat er 'n quote van mij stond in Whiskypassion 2012