Tasting the Intrepid with Charles MacLean M.B.E, Master of the Quaich

Charles MacLean has been described by The Times as Scotland’s leading whisky expert. He has been researching and writing about whisky for nearly forty years, and has published 15 books on the subject, including Malt Whisky, which won a Glenfiddich Award, and Whisky: A Liquid History, which won ‘Wine & Spirits Book of the Year’ in the James Beard Awards 2005 and ‘Best Drinks Book’ in the International Food Media Awards 2005. He was founding editor of Whisky Magazine (1997), contributes regularly to many publications and has written historical and promotional materials for all the leading Scotch whisky companies.
He is a member of the Judging Panel (Spirits) of the International Wines & Spirits Competition, was runner-up as ‘Communicator of the Year’ in the 2003 IWSC Awards and won ‘Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Scotch Whisky’ in the 2012 Awards. He was elected a Keeper of the Quaich in 1992, elevated to Master of the Quaich in 2009.
Join Charles as he shares his tasting notes on 'The Intrepid'...
THE INTREPID World Record Whisky
25 May 2022 at 12noon
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Love the way at 2:03 he says in the tasting "Pears" and then immediately qualifies that with "Tinned Pears" which, as far as this whisky is concerned wonderfully upgrades cheap tinned syrupy fruit above fresh fruit. Clearly, it's a huge "Hooray" for tinned pears. Which reminds me ~ I have a quantity of tinned peaches well past their sell-by-date bought at the start of Covid by way of stocking up during a run on supermarket shortages. I wonder if in the tasting of my old peaches whether there'll be poetry to be spoken as Charles has beautifully eulogised, sadly bespeckled it has to be said rather than eccentrically monocled, in his UA-cam ad for Lyon & Turnbull ~ even so, so eloquently performed upon his tasting of this new very intriguing ‘The Intrepid World Record Whisky’ soon up for auction at Lyon & Turnbull. Thirty-two years in the barrel you say? That's amazing. My peaches have only been in the tin for about two or so years ~ nevertheless, deserving reverence, perhaps, of opening and a tasting for their 'ageing in the tin' don't they? After all, Charles may qualify his whisky tasting in future of the vintage and taste of 'tinned pears' or any tinned fruit be it past the tinned fruit's sell-by-date which of tinned fruit sell-by-dates might have a bearing on the enduring subtlety for descriptive tasting of whisky ~ will it not? And, again what "tinned pears" did the intrepid world renowned whisky tasting taster Charles MacLean have in mind ~ tinned fruit of Fortnum's, M&S, or the Germanic Aldi and Lidl's where I'm inclined to find my preferred shopping tastes? 🙂

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Bravo Sir, BRAVO!