Glen Garioch 1965 21 Year Old Full Strength

Glen Garioch 17 Year Old 1998 Celebration of the Cask Black Gold

Celebration of the Cask is a series from Carn Mor (Morrison & Mackay) in which they bottle single casks at cask strength. A few years ago they added a sub range call Black Gold, reserved for sherried matured malts. They have about 16 already. This is a good example: a Glen Garioch from 1998 matured on a sherry hogshead and bottled in 2016....

Score 87/100

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

Glen Garioch Archives 1990

Nose: sweet , ginger, cloves honey. Plenty of wood spice. Old wood benches. Apple and pear. Palate: enters smoke. Much more than felt in the nose, with hint of peat. Big palate, with the fruit and bitter wood. An alcohol bite, and some cereal and honey liquor. Finish : Malt. Bitter coffee and a bit rough. Earthy. A bit harsh and bitter, sort of a...

Score 80/100

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