Glenfiddich Glenfiddich 21 years old Wedgewood decanter (Rare) Botteld 1987 43% NV

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Serge Valentin (84)

This famous decanter was issued in 1987 to celebrate the distillery’s centenary. It’s still relatively easy to find since collectors do not quite trust stone or china decanters because of possible evaporation (and perhaps because grandmas don’t drink much whisky). If you ever buy one of those, always ask for its weight! Colour: pale gold. Nose: a rather leathery and tobacco-like profile, fatter and drier than the Vintage’s, then some fruitier notes, between Jell-O, sweets, and sweet cider. Also tinned peaches, perhaps. Mouth: some ODE for sure (Old Decanter Effect ;-)) and some smoke for sure, with a much fatter mouth feel than that of the Vintage, loads of green tea, and some earthy bitterness. It’s firm and almost big malt whisky, tenser than any current Glenfiddich, but it’s true that this is mid-1960s distillation, partly using, perhaps, some barley malted at Balvenie. Finish: rather long, a little creamier and certainly very ‘sweet-malty’. Hints of lemon and fresh rhubarb in the aftertaste. Comments: a decanter that kept well!

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