White Horse, 1970s?, EW0789603.

After looking at numerous White Horse bottlings and googling White Horse bottle dates over the past 6 months, I think this bottling is from the 1970's because the centered White Horse logo was used after 1970 and found that White Horse sequentially numbers their bottles which allows me to compare against a mid 70's bottling with a GR 9xxxxx bottle code. Also, the "Royal Warrant: By Appointment To Her Majesty The Queen" was suppossedly printed on the label after 1970. The history of White Horse is also quite interesting, but the most interesting parts say the Mackie family used Lagavulin, Craigellachie, and Malt Mill (Mackie's attempt to duplicate Laphroaig) in their White Horse blends. The "modern" blend doesn't use Lagavulin, or Malt Mill for that matter, any more, but the ingredients are a little mysterious.

Nose: Fruity and woody, really nice.

Palate: very short and smooth, slightly spicey and overall tasty.

Finish: moderate, wood.

I thought it was amazing, but I also think I was pretty inebriated at this point. Again I'll rewrite my logic here. One, which is the popular one, is that I was totally inebriated at this point having had several shots of sake, a ~59% abv Jura, and an "amazing" Cutty Sark prior. This suggests every whisky from here on is going to have positively exaggerated experiences. Two is, this old White Horse is actually good. Three is, I just had some pretty diverse and intense liquors that basically overwhelmed my senses. Everything should taste like water, but this White Horse didn't! Had this at Bar Paradee, Yokohama, Japan.

Grade: A-, or C if I was inebriated.

Image courtesy of Eric Yee.

Eric Yee

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