Not A Nice Person
Pink.
I don't know how Ray missed this one. :laugh:
Glendronach 15 Revival is my favorite Scotch in the world . . . one of those perfect confluences of the distiller's artistry and my own personal taste. It's a highly structured, beautifully sherried dram that simply happens to hit all the "Ooooh! Scotchy Scotchy Scotch!" buttons I look for in a single malt.
So when THIS considerably rarer bottling showed up on the shelf next to the Revival . . . well, I just had to, even though at $94 it was about $15 higher. This Glendronach went into a Pedro Jimenez sherry puncheon on March 31, 1995 and stayed there until July of 2010. I have bottle 418 of 642 from Cask 2045.
It's a beautiful color, both in the bottle and in the glass---the picture's accurate but doesn't do justice to how the light hits this dark amber, coppery red whisky.
The nose is primarily honey and figs, with a trace of citrus peel and some faintly floral notes. Mouthfeel is thick, oily, and bit tingly . . . it's non chill filtered and at 58% alcohol by volume, either cask strength or close to it. :love:
And the taste! Dense, heavy, with toasty almond and dark chocolate notes, dried fruits . . . but mostly, it just grabs you by the palate with an intensely sherried blast. The Revival is what I refer to as 'structured' by which I mean balanced and layered, with a clear separation of flavor notes. This is almost musclebound---like the Aberlour a'bunadh, but with more depth and complexity.
With a bit of spring water added, the florals open up in its nose, and the flavors uncoil a bit, with more fruit showing, and some honey tones. Finish is long, slightly oaky, sherried and fiery.
This is going to be a treasured bottle on my Scotch shelf, for sure. Lovely stuff.
~Boar
Glendronach 15 Revival is my favorite Scotch in the world . . . one of those perfect confluences of the distiller's artistry and my own personal taste. It's a highly structured, beautifully sherried dram that simply happens to hit all the "Ooooh! Scotchy Scotchy Scotch!" buttons I look for in a single malt.
So when THIS considerably rarer bottling showed up on the shelf next to the Revival . . . well, I just had to, even though at $94 it was about $15 higher. This Glendronach went into a Pedro Jimenez sherry puncheon on March 31, 1995 and stayed there until July of 2010. I have bottle 418 of 642 from Cask 2045.
It's a beautiful color, both in the bottle and in the glass---the picture's accurate but doesn't do justice to how the light hits this dark amber, coppery red whisky.
The nose is primarily honey and figs, with a trace of citrus peel and some faintly floral notes. Mouthfeel is thick, oily, and bit tingly . . . it's non chill filtered and at 58% alcohol by volume, either cask strength or close to it. :love:
And the taste! Dense, heavy, with toasty almond and dark chocolate notes, dried fruits . . . but mostly, it just grabs you by the palate with an intensely sherried blast. The Revival is what I refer to as 'structured' by which I mean balanced and layered, with a clear separation of flavor notes. This is almost musclebound---like the Aberlour a'bunadh, but with more depth and complexity.
With a bit of spring water added, the florals open up in its nose, and the flavors uncoil a bit, with more fruit showing, and some honey tones. Finish is long, slightly oaky, sherried and fiery.
This is going to be a treasured bottle on my Scotch shelf, for sure. Lovely stuff.
~Boar
