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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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November 17, 2021
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Seven Glen Elgin
(Or extra)
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In our weaker minds, Glen Elgin results in White Horse, which in flip would result in Lagavulin. Rhymes and alliterations all the time please poor writers too, to not point out tasters… Let’s attempt to do that vertically and kick this off with a wee apéritif…
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Glen Elgin 9 yo 2010/2020 (46%, James Eadie, Small Batch, bourbon) 
These wee bottlings simply by no means fail, do they? Color: white wine. Nostril: saccharose, cranberry juice, thyme tea, honeydew, panettone, sage, borage, tarragon… Certainly, how uncommon is that this? Very pretty nostril, fairly totally different, recent, fragrant, intriguing, mysterious… Mouth: candy barley, malt, ale, Seville oranges, marmalade, extra thyme, then as soon as once more a sense of saccharose, wee easter eggs, icing sugar… What a humorous drop! End: fairly lengthy, with these herbs being again, tarragon, sage… A sweeter – and stronger – sauce béarnaise in your glass. Honey and ale within the aftertaste, or there, mead. Feedback: excellent, fairly characterful, totally different, and but not off-track in any respect.
SGP:461 – 85 factors. |
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Glen Elgin 10 yo 2010/2020 (61.3%, Single Cask Nation, 2nd fill hogshead, cask #801386)
Color: white wine. Nostril: LOL, and I imply LOL. Maggi, glutamate, Tabasco, chives and 61.3% vol. What might go flawed? Let’s have a look at… With water: very good in case you do carry your pipette below management. Barley and honey, borage, sage, that panettone (why do not individuals like panettone, usually talking?)… Mouth (neat): fats and completely comparable. Identical icing sugar and herbs as within the James Eadie, solely at a, cough, a murderous power. And just a little riesling. With water: stylish drop. Splendid wee herbs and flowers, all crystallised. Stuff for 3*** eating places. End: lengthy, tense, with an exquisite texture. Feedback: ueber-class distillate, it is simply not that straightforward to not miss the purpose utterly.
SGP:561 – 87 factors. |
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We might attempt one other 2010 coz I like them…
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Glen Elgin 11 yo 2010/2021 (57%, Cooper’s Alternative, Sizzling Malt Taiwan, Marsala cask end, 276 bottles) 
Maintain on, a Marsala end… However there are lots of sorts of Marsalas, so, let’s have a look at… Color: straw. Nostril: candy and straightforward, actually all on candy barley, marshmallows, sultanas and a complete field of various Turkish delights. And dried figs. Somewhat impeccable until this level. With water: a wee feeling of gueuze and Rivesaltes. Any loopy mixologists round? Mouth (neat): a superb drop, with a distillate that, apparently, might take simply something. Candy pastries, rolls, some honeysuckle and elderflower syrup, mullein… With water: a curious no to cognac, then drier fruits, peelings, teas… Tends to change into just a little leafy and bitter, not a transfer that remained unseen. End: medium, on natural teas. Hawthorn tea. Some muscovado. Raisins within the aftertaste. Feedback: it survived the Marsala. High quality’s fairly excessive and it didn’t get winey.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Time to go down the vintages and possibly be just a little faster…
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Glen Elgin 11 yo 2009/2020 (59.7%, The Single Malts of Scotland, for USA, hogshead, cask #807780)
Keith, Imperial, ‘Lish, ‘Wooden, Elgin, Ila… That is a few of their favorite drops, apparently. Color: white wine. Nostril: extra austere, clearly, since we’re 100% on the distillate right here. A mentholy earthiness plus these wee herbs that we already discovered as we speak, borage, sage… Plus certainly a big recent panettone and a correct Alsatian kougelhopf that is just one hour outdated. With water: plain and pure barleyness. Mouth (neat): fats mouth really feel and pure barleyness certainly. No woods in the best way, no wine, only a fattish distillate. We should always retailer these bottles for 50 years for our kids and grandchildren. Who is aware of, with local weather change, will distilling stay authorized in our superior nations? With water: very good. Notes of pumpernickel. End: medium, whereas these herbs are again, going in direction of… A sort of fatter and drier Jägermeister. With our apologies, please obtain our honest greetings of peace and wellbeing. Feedback: did not we are saying we might be faster? Nice mature eau-de-vie de barley anyway.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Glen Elgin 13 yo 2008/2021 (52.2%, The Whisky Alternate, hogshead)
Boy are we gradual… Color: straw. Nostril: tenser and tighter but, on cider and oils, plus grapefruits and leaves. With water: chalk, apple juice, Sancerre, duck fats. Yep, duck fats. Mouth (neat): completely glorious, even good younger savoury fats malt. Certainly we have pushed the overdrive button. With water: loves water. Tight grapefruit jelly and Szechuan pepper. End: lengthy. Grassy construction. Inexperienced pepper within the aftertaste. Feedback: fairly a blade, what we name a sword. You do perceive that these effective of us in London do like this distillate; we do too.
SGP:461 – 87 factors. |
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Glen Elgin 2007/2020 (54.8%, Signatory Classic for Or Sileis, Taiwan, hogshead, cask #800250, 299 bottles)
With a beautiful wee animal on the label. With all of the salmons they have in SCO, they need to reintroduce bears! Have they? I imply not speaking about human animals? Color: straw. Nostril: sameish. I hate it that we’d now push the fast-forward button, as we used to do with our Akai cassette recorders, however certainly that is just about the identical whisky. Excellent news. Mouth: certainly we might have stated Pioneer, Nagra, or Revox, however certainly that is comparable, besides that there could be extra oranges, which might make this one much more gorgeous. Extraordinary orangeness, which might create a sort of fatter and larger Dalmore. Yep. End: good. Will get very grassy and peppery in direction of the aftertaste, not the primary time that occurs both. Feedback: prime notch large malt. Now, I hate to say this however please don’t pour this to newbies. There, I stated it.
SGP:461 – 87 factors. |
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Glen Elgin 15 yo 2004/2020 (56.7%, Woman of the Glen, Tawny Port end, 300 bottles) 
Gotcha. A 4 month end in Tawny, and why not? Color: gentle gold. Nostril: no strawberries, no raspberries and no cassis, we’re effective! Properly, there are some however it’s all below management, fairly with truffles and tarts and stuff. Undecided I might have recognised the distillate, having stated that. With water: doughs. Mouth (neat): all effective and good, with just a few leafy tones past the strawberries. Positive it does wrestle after the stunning bare 2010-2007s nevertheless it’s getting away with that. With water: effective. Truffles and yoghurts plus malt. End: medium, on candy and bitter pink fruits plus some truffles made thereof. Feedback: certain this isn’t fairly the identical league, however we have had some ex-Tawny malts that had been a lot, a lot worse.
SGP:551 – 81 factors. |
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Glen Elgin 16 yo 2004/2020 (51.3%, Woman of the Glen, Rivesaltes end, cask 801300, 180 bottles) 
A Rivesaltes end? Oh, no….. …. …. That could possibly be Mr Bean staining Whistler’s Mom in case you ask me, however let’s hold an open thoughts and humour… Color: deep gold. Nostril: raisins, sultanas, Corinthians, Smyrnaeans, Sicilians… And younger cognac. They virtually recreated brandy de Jerez, kudos! With water: cherry leaves and stems, walnuts skins, struck matches. Mouth (neat): a drier, extra oloroso-ed brandy de Jerez, with just a little mud and sulphur past the large dry outdated walnuts. With water: some bitter wines, strawberry liqueurs… End: fairly lengthy. Pepper, strawberries, candy wine. Feedback: not a fan of this very one, however we have gathered fairly just a few top-notch LOTG bottlings recently. That might be Woman Of The Glen certainly. Quickly on WF.
SGP:651 – 75 factors. |
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Good, our plan was to return to the Sixties however this has change into just a little onerous. Let’s do a 1995 after which name this a session, in case you agree…
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Glen Elgin 24 yo 1995/2020 (49.1%, Asta Morris, bourbon, cask #AM137, 170 bottles)
Phew, no extra wine – wine will kill whisky someday, learn my lips! Now certainly, between raisins and nothing… properly… Color: white wine. Nostril: oh there, outdated Glen Elgin, waxier, extra on high-class whites (there’s an enormous distinction between being paying homage to some nice wines and being flavoured with some low cost ones), then pollen and pistachios. Elegant. Mullein and elderflower syrups. Mouth: beeswax, honeys, bitterer nuts, propolis, a sense of chlorophyl, then pu-her tea. End: lengthy, maybe a tad too oaky now, with bitter oils. Schade, I used to be able to go larger, I imply, you see what I imply, figuratively… Feedback: very high-class Glen Elgin that will have gone a wee tad too far.
SGP:461 – 86 factors. |
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Yeah, I agree, a final one…
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Glen Elgin-Glenlivet 23 yo 1995/2019 (50.6%, Cadenhead, Small Batch, bourbon hogsheads, 486 bottles)
Have you ever heard of W.M. Cadenhead’s recently? Color: gentle gold. Nostril: identical type as that of the Asta Morris, pollen, beeswax, mead… Mouth: glorious mix of two casks, regardless of a weird meaty aspect (suet?) Beeswax, mead, preserved peaches, vinsanto (amen), pepper, ginger… End: fairly lengthy, with just a little (an excessive amount of) pepper. Feedback: fairly excellent, if not stellar. Some elements jogged my memory of some loopy French ginger liqueur, the identify escaping me. And of peppers. Nah, we might dwell with out it.
SGP:462 – 82 factors. |
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Look, since we’re at Cadenhead’s, this is what we’ll do, we’ll leap over the vintages by at least thirty years and swear that this might be our final Glen Elgin this 12 months. Whole lot, no?
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Glen Elgin-Glenlivet 15 yo 1965/1980 (46%, Cadenhead, black dumpy) 
We have had a 1965/1978 fairly some years in the past (like, 20 years in the past) that is been very good (WF 90). Color: amber. Nostril: all hail outdated cash, silverware, steel polish, outdated engine, foie gras, spent motor oil, and simply outdated well-taken-care-of motorcycle. Select your model and your mannequin however I might absolutely say Norton Commando. Mouth: elegant pine-y arrival, happening with menthol, outdated embrocations, cigars, camphor, and numerous oils that, possibly, you we’re meant to place into your mouth. Locals’ retsina wine. End: lengthy however actually very dry and resinous. Crunching pine needles. Feedback: malt whisky by Jean-Luc Godard, you simply adore it however you can’t not marvel why you do. Existential drop.
SGP:372 – 89 factors. |
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Okay, that is sufficient, bye.
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