Perfect evening

[smokelaw1]

Ah, it's about 70 degrees, a slight breeze.
I'm sitting on my back deck with two old friends. One is wet, and the other is hot.
The 1988 Signatory Mortlach Distillery Bottling, and a PSD4 that has been waiting for me since April. The pairing is about as perfect as I can imagine. Now, I am going to turn off this infernal machine, open my book, and relax for an hour or so. I bid you all a fine night, and hope you are enjoying yours as well as I am mine.
I imagine I will have more to say as I finish my next few drams and decide you all REALLY need to hear more about this.

 

[Shiba]

Hey... Wake up!!!

 

[smokelaw1]

Oh, I am quite awake. That cigar and scotch combination made for a wonderful early evening. Finished up by skipping the book and reading a fantastic screenplay written by my soon to be brother-in-law. The PSD4 is one of my favorites, and this one has a few years on it, i think, plus been waiting in my ownership since April for the right moment. Tonight was it.
If anyone has he chance to sample the Mortlach 1988, bottled in 01, really, it is fantastic.
Was interupted at 7:10 or so by my fiance and her frind talkng wedding stuff, but it was a temporary setback in an otherwise perfect evening.

 

[AVB]

I gotta agree tonight was probably the last perfect outside smoking night of the year here in south eastern PA. I was out on the deck with the wife, a Hansotia Gran Envoy and a glass of my recently bombed Old Pogue. Great way to spend 90 minutes. :thumbs:

 

[AVB]

I'll be looking forward to a review of that Mortlach when you recover.

The 1988 Signatory Mortlach Distillery Bottling.....
I imagine I will have more to say as I finish my next few drams and decide you all REALLY need to hear more about this.

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[Shiba]

LOL.... When you said 2 old friends and one is wet and the other is hot, I thought you were referring to a couple of women!!!! LOLOLOL

 

[smokelaw1]

First off, shiba....that is what my oh-so clever writing was hinting at.

And AVB, as for a review...it was as full-bodied as I have ever tasted Mortlach. Nose is kind of nutty, with a smoke (NOT peat smoke, almost like a really mild candela burning by itself) flavor that was intriguing.
In the mouth it is all bundled up flavors, almost puzzle-like in complexity. Then, a few drops of filtered water opens it up liek a book. A wonderful sweetness comes out, with that same smokiness and I thought I descerned some grapes...more accurately, you knwo the smell of a whole bag of mixed up dried fruits, or the aisle in the whole foods store that carries them, and perhaps some nuts and things....it was that aisle.
The finish was a decrescendo of the smae wonderful notes, that lasted forever. It lasts through the next puff of the cigar, mixing two of my greatest pleasures, and only finally disappaiting when I expelled the smoke, smiled, let it take its time retreating. I'd read another paragraph, then start the whole wonderful process over.