Glenlivet 1968 32 Year Old Hart Brothers

Glenlivet 15 Year Old French Oak Finish

Neat Nose: cherry Twizzlers, deep mellow oak Taste: moderately oily mouthfeel, bit of spice and wood Did not try with water, I suspect it would kill what little nose/taste we have neat. I really like the mouthfeel and the cherry/licorice of the nose, but there's not much complexity to this malt. Spicier than the 12 and 18, but missing the grassy,...

Score 81/100

Glenlivet The Glenlivet Nadurra First Fill Selection

Nose: sweet, creamy vanilla cake. I am melting a single ice cube in the glass, because otherwise this whisky is just too hot and tart to fully enjoy. As the ice melts it releases more enticing vanilla with just the slightest hint of lemon zest. Taste: full, malty, with vanilla and grassy flavours which hit right away and spread across the...

Score 86/100

Glenlivet Nadurra Oloroso Batch OLO614

A few years ago Glenlivet released their 16 year old "Nadurra" (Gaelic for "natural"), a non-chill filtered cask strength whisky. This newer edition of the Nadurra range is NAS and matured exclusively in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks. This is batch OL0614, bottled in June 2014. Note that the water I use is the Uisge Source...

Score 75/100

Glenlivet 12 Year Old 2007 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

We know that Belgian bottler The Nectar selects excellent casks. This is a first fill sherry hogshead that entertained the Glenlivet spirit for 12 years, judging by the color. But at what ABV did this baby go into the cask, when after more than a decade this is bottled at a whopping 66.2%. Many a great sister cask – all of them great – have been...

Score 88/100