Distillerie | Glen Garioch |
Embouteilleur | Usquebaugh Society |
Serie | 25th Anniversary |
Mise en bouteille pour | Usquebaugh Society |
Date de distillation | 24.03.1990 |
Date de mise en bouteille | 12.05.2015 |
Pays | Écosse |
Région | Eastern Highlands |
Age | 25 |
Cask Type | |
Numéro de fût | 7937 |
Alcohol percentage | 56.7 |
Volume | |
État | Pas de boîte d'origine incluse |
Étiquette | Parfait |
Stock | 0 |
Our Dutch friends don’t only produce gouda, tulips, weed, and tax shelters, they’re also quite good at selecting casks…
Colour: full gold.
Nose: there’s more oak in this one, more butterscotch, more fudge, more toasted brioche… The ‘problem’ is that it combines extremely well with the earthy/smoky style of the spirit. You’re drinking lapsang souchong while sucking fudge and smoking a Partagas. I said a Partagas. Some lemon may be involved somewhere. With water: mud, in a great way. Perhaps a little pipe juice.
Mouth (neat): clearly the Signatory with more oak influence. All a matter of taste, and while I tend to prefer the sharper and cleaner styles, I’m finding this just as superb (hey, do you think that makes much sense, S.?). Loud applause. With water: softer notes, vanilla, raisins, dried apricots… And fudge!
Finish: rather long, a little buttery. Buttered fudge. I tried an excellent one recently, I’ll give you the name, wait… Right, found the empty box, it is (was) called Mr Stanley.
Comments: another exceptional 1990 Glen Garioch. Despite the fudge. And it’s a little moving to be reminded of Slim Cowell’s fantabulous bottlings of earlier Glen Gariochs.