Glen Garioch 1991 21 Year Old Liquid Library The Whisky Agency

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 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 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 15 Year Old

On the nose there is some vanilla but this whisky is dominated by floral aromas. Standing head and shoulders above them all is the smell of heather though, and its very enjoyable. in the background to these floral notes is the slightest hint of smoke like a distant camp fire. To the palate I find that much of the early floral flavours dissipate to...

Score 68/100