Glen Garioch 12 Year Old 1995 Provenance Douglas Laing

Glen Garioch 18 Year Old 1998 Adelphi

Wonderfully dark color… that’s the first thing I notice about this independently bottled Glen Garioch. Adelphi allowed it to mature for 18 years on a seemingly very active sherry hogshead. The nose is somewhat dry, if you know what I mean. Dried apricots, almond shavings, milk chocolate with pieces of dried fruit like Cadbury and furniture polish....

Score 87/100

Glen Garioch 1995

Glen Garioch is a distillery whose wares I'd been wanting to try for a while, so on a recent trip to Inverness, I picked up a bottle of their 1995 Vintage (bottled in 2012) at The Whisky Shop. Sadly, immediately afterwards I caught a cold (the two incidents are not, so far as I know, related: correlation does not imply causation), so had to wait...

Score 96/100

Glen Garioch 1797 Founders Reserve

The Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's Reserve is the entry level malt, without age statement, of this Highland Distillery. It was, as the name suggests, founded in 1797 in Old Meldrum. Since 1984 the distillery is in the hands of Suntory, who owns Morrison-Bowmore (which, besides this distillery, also run Bowmore and Auchentoshan). The powerful nose is...

Score 81/100

Glen Garioch 1986 25 Year Old

One of the problems I have with trading samples with my fellow whisky society members is - I tend to forget about them. I mean, they're small bottles hiding in the cabinet! Then I usually find them at some point while I'm going through the inventory. But even worse is when I don't label them properly - and months later I come across it and have no...

Score 60/100