Tag: Vintage 1998

Rating 6/ 10
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L’encantada Pouy 1998/2024 Cask Sample #83

Nose: A cinnamon diesel explosion. Nutmeg. Cedar planks in the oven. Turned pineapple and mango gone the way of fermentation. Pencil shavings.

Palate: Rubber. Yellow peaches and canned lychee juice. I remember the first time they made me a retainer. A bubblegum flavored goop was put into a mold and pushed into my mouth. Don’t move or we will have to do this again, she said after the second failed attempt. I can still taste it 31 years later. The diesel note really pops in the finish.

Rating: 6 / 10 – Definitely going to appeal to the rum crowd.

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Glenlivet 1998 25 Year : Elderly Elvis Tilting 2 55.4%

Nose: Yellow peaches, cantaloupe, kumquat.

Palate: Orange blossom honey, anise seed, flinstone’s vitamin chews, elderflower

Rating: 7 / 10 – this is just beautiful

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Domaine Seailles 1998 Cask #29 54%

Nose: Wintergreen lifesavers, wood, peach rings, dates, clove hard candy, rhubarb, even after resting the nose is intense and hurts with an underlying acetone note. Bougainvillea.

Palate: Oak two by four covered in herbal to the face. Hot hot wood. Lip curling. Tape. Black tea and tobacco pushing into kombucha like experiences, cloves and black pepper. The mouthfeel of sichuan chili oil.

Rating: 5 / 10 – big brash and intense. Fun to go to a bar with once, but would be old quite quickly.

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Glenlivet “Elderly Elvis Tilting” 1998 25 Year 55.4%

Nose: Strawberry licorice ropes, dried turkish apricots, dark chocolate covered freeze-dried cherries, figs, mike & ikes, fresh cut grass

Palate: Luxardo cherries, christmas pudding, light rye toast, cloves and vanilla, wood bite.

Rating: 8 / 10 – can’t believe this is not a sherry cask. It’s so luscious.

Rating 7/ 10
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Longrow 1998/2010 12 year Rum Cask 55.7% for Cadenheads

Nose: Grapefruit, rum cake.

Palate: Black tea, cardamom, grapefruit peel, puer tea.

Rating: 7 / 10 – much much better. Longrow really works with a lick of sweetness.

Rating 8/ 10
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Springbank 2019 21 Year 57.4% for IAAS FB Group

Nose: Lemon poppyseed muffins, bandaids and iodine, can of freshly opened tennis balls, fudge, light whiffs of pine/juniper, pencils, orange blossom water, good ‘n plenty

Palate: Fatty, creamy, vanilla, orange blossom water, white peach tea, loveliest note of peat that adds complexity and body

Rating: 8 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – this is a beautiful Springbank, well done IAAS!

Rating 5/ 10
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Velier Rhum Saint-James 1998 20 year Martinique 47%

Nose: Spoiled banana peel, older calvados, violets, orange blossom water, cedar, rose infused candy drops, caramel, biscotti, dill

Palate: Wet perfumed wood. Intensely floral. Rotten banana. Dried ground cinnamon and cloves, marsala

Rating: 5 / 10 – powerful, perfumy and challenging. But not delicious.

Rating 6/ 10
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Domaine Pouy 1998 #80 (Ténarèze; Grappe variety Colombard and Ugni Blanc) 58%

Nose: Tangerine tangerine tangerine, pineapple, some fun rum notes, anise reduction

Palate: Tangerine, salty, celeriac, slightly meaty note on the back palate – biltong, the wetter side of it, pipe tobacco, leather, black tea

Rating: 6 / 10 – the most approachable Pouy I’ve ever had. Experimenting with toasted cask finishes to add sweetness and balance it.

Rating 6/ 10
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Cuxtan 1998 44.5% Baco

Nose: Butterscotch (initial impression, fell off with time), sweeter side, nutella, white sugar, fresh grape flesh, cotton candy, browned butter, braggs worchestire sauce?.

Palate: Rootbeer.

Rating: 6 / 10 – well I’ll be. A cuxtan I didn’t dislike.