Glenlivet 18 Year Old

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

Last night I decided after a very long day of watching movies, playing video games, prepping for my wife's and I upcoming holiday to Scotland and talking whisky to crack open a sample bottle of whisky that had been sent to me. Glenlivet 18 year old sent to me by my whisky friend, Systemdown of Queensland. Up to him introducing me to a sample of...

Score 88/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

I’ve started using a “tastings journal” to put my tasting notes in that I got free with Whisky Magazine, so from now on my reviews will be mainly me putting together the stuff I’ve scribbled in there, including this one, so they’ll make even less sense than normal! I’ve sampled Glenlivet drams before, but this one caught my eye as I had some spare...

Score 88/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

Not quite as refined as I would like, but the amazing nose and fruity/spicy palate stand up rather well. There is a lovely flavor starting to develop in this that I really liked in my bottle of Tomatin 25 year; sort of a spicy dried fruit. Maybe I need to try the 21 and 25 year Glenlivet bottlings...

Score 86/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

I’ve tried this on a number of occasions. Recently, I gave a tasting to a couple that are friends of my wife. The husband likes Glenlivet and he responded with popping open a bottle of this. I had already had a few drams by that point . . . and all I got from that bottle was, “Well, this is pleasant enough.” So a short time later I cracked open my...

Score 78/100