Glen Garioch 1971 40 Year Old Single Cask for TWE

Glen Garioch 22 Year Old 1990 Kintra

While Erik Molenaar steadily continues to distill his own spirits at his Wagging Finger distillery, his company Kintra still bottles whisky and rum. This is a Glen Garioch that he released a couple of years ago, but of which I only just now was able to secure a sample. Ooh, this is a very aromatic nose full of banana, papaya, melon, demerara...

Score 86/100

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 23 Year Old 1990 Samaroli

Another sample from that festival in Belgium, this time around a 23 Year Old Glen Garioch that was bottled by the famous Italian label Samaroli, released only very recently. The nose is very clean. Grain and grass. Citrus and pineapple cubes. A tiny bit of smoke. Quite some vanilla after a few minutes. Then suddenly it turns creamier on toffee....

Score 83/100

Glen Garioch Dumpy Bottle

I will finish up my series of Glen Garioch with a special one. This is an old Glen Garioch, from the 70s of the previous century, bottled for the Italian importer Lemar from Bologna. It is bottled in what we call a brown dumpy bottle. Only 8 years old and something of a cult whisky. The nose is not completely devoid of OBE. Not uncommon after more...

Score 82/100