Glen Garioch 19 Year Old 1991 Rare Auld Duncan Taylor

Glen Garioch 12 Year Old

This Glen Garioch is fresh, crisp, creamy and sugary. A warming desert. The nose offers aromas of a refreshing mint julep and milky caramel drizzled over a red and delicious apple. The cold woodsy scent of a frozen tree branch breezes in at the end. On the palate, sugar and cinnamon jump out immediately chased by a sharp dryness. The dryness...

Score 82/100

Glen Garioch 1998 wine cask 15yo

Normally old wine cask's are used to "finish" a whisky and normally anything from a few months to 3-5 years but this is 15 long years in ex Bordeaux red wine casks, a first for me or have i missed another distillery that have used 100% wine cask for a release? Black forest gateaux screams on the nose (chocolate & black cherries) rum...

Score 90/100

Glen Garioch 20yo (1990/2010) AD Rattray, Bourbon cask #5878

Another dram from my year of birth! Description: matured for 20 years in a ex-bourbon cask #5878, bottled at 56% ABV. Nose: a classic honeyed nose with elements of heather, sharp alcoholic, with muffled underlying notes of white grape juice, vanilla and a touch of peat smoke, Mouth: smooth bodied, warm on the palate. main influence from bold oak...

Score 84/100

Glen Garioch 1971 Samaroli Collection

I’m going to try to write up a note for every whisky I tried at the recent festival in Belgium (if I can decipher my scribbles…) but wanted to start with this bottle that completely blew me away. I tasted many a good malt, but this is, without a doubt, the absolute number one – numero uno! Never tasted anything like it before and probably never...

Score 97/100