Royal Lochnagar Selected Reserve 60er Jahre 25y Originalabfüllung 43% 75cl

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Royal Lochnagar ‘Selected Reserve’ (43%, OB, 75cl, +/-1988)  A rather famous bottling and one of the very early ‘premium NAS’. According to some, Queen Victoria used to quaff some of this one’s ancestors, except that she was mixing it with claret. Which leads me to think that they should have done a Bordeaux finishing on the DE, the story would have been nice and funny. Colour: dark pink gold. Nose: but this is superb! Dried figs kept in an old tin box, some kind of smoked honey – but could you smoke honey – and some kinds of sweet cigars, plus some high-end leather polish and then more and more tangerines, as marmalade, as syrup, as fresh juice… Wonderful old-school nose. Mouth: totally superb, meaty, sooty, ashy, camphory, sappy… It’s really very complex, the tangerines are there again, and there’s many ‘old’ dried fruits, manuka honey, mead… While the whole tends to become saltier and saltier, which reminds me of the current 12. It’s really deep and complex. Finish: rather long, with some Spanish ham, more mead, those figs… It’s really superb! The aftertaste is grassier and drier, so never tiring, you’re ready for another glass. Comments: it’s not that I’m very fond of the expression ‘a blast from the past’, but it’s pretty appropriate. Superb sweet and dry style. SGP:452 - 90 points.