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| Hello, that is one in every of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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November 2, 2024
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Rosebank 1991/2009 ‘Handfill’ (55.1%, The Whisky Change) 
We kick off with a ineffective tasting be aware for a Rosebank bottling offered as a handfill, again within the ridiculously harmless days of 2009 when you might go to The Whisky Change store at Vinopolis and purchase Rosebank direct from the cask, most likely for round £65 a bottle. Neither potential, and even authorized now (presumably additionally unlawful then too). Color: pale gold. Nostril: usually contemporary and chiselled, all on chalk, limestone, pin-sharp citrus notes and hints of olive oil. As we found in a tasting at Whisky Stay Paris the opposite week, Rosebank and Chichibu appear to share lots of similarities, and nosing that is solely re-affirming that impression to me. Very grassy, crisp notes of gooseberry and nettle coming by way of. With water: actually on limestone, clay, vase water, white flowers and essentially the most delicate be aware of wax. Mouth: hay, white flowers, extra gooseberries and tart inexperienced apple. I’d additionally add that slight funk of cider apple, some lemon barley water and mirabelle eau de vie. Crisp, pin-sharp and really vibrant. With water: wonderful combo of crisp, clear cereal notes, sunflower oil, hand cream and lemon rind. End: medium, flinty, relatively mineral, chalky and persevering with with white flowers and lemon peel. Feedback: the shoppers of TWE Vinopolis by no means had it so good! Glorious, sharp and tense Rosebank.
SGP: 551 – 88 factors.
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Rosebank 21 yo ‘The Roses, Version 5, Fascination’ (49.5%, Specialty Drinks, Madeira cask, 633 bottles, bottled 2021)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: very proximate to the handfill, with these very crisp, pure notes of inexperienced apple, hay, white flower, pollen and issues like vase water, clay, olive oil and even a barely petrolic edge. Nice freshness and sense of sharpness as soon as once more. Mouth: I discover it a bit of rounder and fuller than the nostril steered, extra oily, barely sweeter and extra on barley extracts, beers, heather honey and even a bit of camphor, maybe this richer aspect comes from the Madeira affect. There’s even a bit of treacle, dried mint and one thing barely salty and leathery. Good energy as soon as once more. End: medium, with a continuation of those extra wealthy, rounded and savoury/candy balanced qualities that dominated the palate. Feedback: superb, how lengthy was it in madeira casks? It’s a little bit of cask trickery that appears to have been very cleverly dealt with right here.
SGP: 561 – 89 factors.
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Live performance Evaluation
by Nick Morgan
Invoice Frisell 4
Cadogan Corridor, London, Friday twenty fifth October 2024
I’ve been fortunate sufficient to journey the world with Invoice Frisell for twenty-five years or so, ever since he launched Good Canine, Comfortable Man in 1999. On a sequence of more and more refined units and headphones, in more and more refined plane, the opening bars of ‘Rain rain’ have, like a magic carpet, whisked me away from the tedious mundaneness of long-haul flights to the peaceable haven of Frisell’s ‘colourful, commanding tone poems’ The album stays my most performed – much more than Revolver!
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The studious Frisell has all the time had one thing of a scholarly bearing – you wouldn’t be fully stunned if he put down his guitar, gig half performed, and began studying a realized paper on essentially the most esoteric of topics. Since I first noticed him, additionally about twenty-five years in the past, he’s climbed the greasy educational pole from senior lecturer, by way of a readership, a chair, and shortly (now in his seventies) maybe an emeritus professor. Within the Cadogan Corridor this night he’s actually taking a again seat and giving lots of area for his junior colleagues, Greg Tardy on saxophones, Gerald Clayton on piano, and Jonathan Blake on drums to carry out. That is the band who recorded the ‘irresistible’ 4 on Blue Be aware data in 2022, the realisation of musical themes sketched out by Frisell through the pandemic.
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For many who don’t know the Cadogan Corridor, simply off Chelsea’s Sloane Sq., was initially constructed for the Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Scientists) in 1907. The constructing was designed by architect Robert Chisholm (who practised largely in India) in an imposing Byzantine model and has exceptional stained glass home windows designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz. Within the Nineties, now not in use and a church, it was briefly owned by the now disgraced Mohamed Fayed (who tried, and failed, to transform the constructing to residential use) earlier than being acquired by the Cadogan Estates and remodeled into one of the vital spacious ethereal live performance halls in London, with wonderful acoustics. For all that there’s something of a Senate Home and Rationalist vibe concerning the inside: you wouldn’t be fully stunned if a black-shirted Oswald Mosely strode onto the stage mouthing antisemitic tropes. However he doesn’t.
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Frisell’s tunes are all the time riff heavy and wealthy in melody, typically by no means too far-off from a twelve-bar blues, and usually illuminated by an array of results pedals and loops. However the emphasis on this efficiency is extra on the opposite gamers relatively than Invoice’s digital wizardry. In a set that includes largely materials from the 4 album (which in flip comprises reworkings of a handful of tunes from Good Canine Comfortable Man) there’s loads of room for improvisation, and the fluid taking part in of Clayton, Tandy and Frisell comes and goes like waves gently breaking on a seaside. With no bass the glue all comes from drummer Jonathan Blake, who, with a deceptively lazy model, delivers his chops with pinpoint accuracy (and performs a memorable solo). The music is immersive, nearly transportational, on stage every musician is looking for the opposite, clearly having fun with the efficiency as a lot because the viewers.
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Frisell’s music has drawn closely on American tradition, folks music, and the good American songbook in its broadest definition, from ‘While you want upon a star’ to ‘I heard it by way of the grapevine’. Your by no means fairly certain when a well-recognized melody or phrase goes to creep up on you, and so it was on the finish of the live performance. Having acquired a rousing ovation, a usually meandering groove within the encore leads into the very acquainted chorus of Hal David and Burt Bacharach’s ‘What the world want’s now’, recorded by Frisell on his 2020 Blue Be aware album Valentine. Which with wars, local weather change, elections, budgets and the like, I’m certain the entire Cadogan Corridor viewers agreed with as they stepped out into a chilly, darkish autumn evening. – Nick Morgan
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