Glen Elgin 19 Year Old Centenary

Glen Elgin 12 Year Old 2006 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

I recently hosted a tasting and instead of just handing out whisky, I was also handed a bag full of samples by one of the participant. Well, he’s invited to the next tasting for sure. One of those samples was this young Glen Elgin, recently bottled by The Nectar from Belgium. I was told this this was a refill sherry cask, but you would not be able...

Score 84/100

Glen Elgin 18 Year Old 1995 A.D. Rattray

This bottle of Glen elgin was hiding between other beauties on the table of Jurgen’s Whiskyhuis at the recent Global Spirits Expo in Antwerp. I immediately took a sample to try it in this little line-up of mine. It matured for 18 years on a bourbon cask and was bottled at cask strength in 2014 by A.D. Rattray. The nose is very herbal and...

Score 82/100

Glen Elgin 18 Year Old 1995 Blackadder Raw Cask

This Blackadder bottling contains a Glen Elgin from 1995. It is only the 10th Glen Elgin I am trying, but then there are not that many official bottlings. So I had to look for an indie. This was bottled after 18 years at a whopping cask strength of 58,2%. The nose is creamy and burst with citrus fruit, lime in the lead. A bit of beeswax makes it...

Score 85/100

Glen Elgin 35 Year Old 1975 The Whisky Agency

The Whisky Agency has bottled no less than four casks for 1975 Glen Elgin (or at least parts of it, judging from the number of bottles). Three in the Perfect Dram series and this one from the so-called Landscape series. The bourbon hoggie yielded 186 bottles, of which some can still be found today. The nose starts off dusty, as if I am nosing this...

Score 86/100