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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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December 10, 2021
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I’ve the impression that the indies are having increasingly Glenlossie as of late. Let’s handpick of few of them, beginning with three little apéritifs…
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Glenlossie 12 yo 2009/2021 (43%, LMDW Artist Collective 5.0, first fill bourbon, 1317 bottles) 
This child from 4 barrels, the entire bottled at what has now change into an uncommon energy from an indie bottler. Color: white wine. Nostril: it is just about on contemporary barley, brioche, kougelhopf, porridge and custard, with a wee floral aspect that will convey extra complexity. Dandelions. Touches of banana skins and somewhat minimize grass. Typical contemporary younger Speysider al pure. Like! as they are saying on Fb. Mouth: good, contemporary, a tad bitterer and extra liquoricy than anticipated, with touches of inexperienced oranges and somewhat peppermint. The energy works nicely. End: unexpectedly lengthy and much more on liquorice, or relatively liquorice wooden. Even a drop of absinth within the aftertaste. Feedback: actual good, simple however strong and severe unsherried Speysider. This session is beginning nicely…
SGP:351 – 85 factors. |
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Glenlossie 9 yo 2011/2020 (46%, The Whisky Lodge, Orcines, recharred hogshead, cask #1082)
Color: white wine. Nostril: similar ballpark, this one being only a tad rounder, ‘sweeter’ on the nostril, and somewhat extra on praline and muscovado sugar. Very good. Mouth: certainly very related, if not quasi-identical. Beautiful liquorice, cake, triple-sec, then a grassier aspect of wonderful high quality. Fantastic steadiness. End: lengthy, on liquorice cake, ought to that exist. I am certain it does. Feedback: an ideal malt whisky that will present all of your higher buddies what’s precisely malt whisky, past all types of aromatisation and flavouring which might be used as of late. Certainly, superb.
SGP:451 – 85 factors. |
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Glenlossie 10 yo 2010/2021 (46%, James Eadie, Small Batch, UK unique, 923 bottles)
Does the wild boar on the label recommend this child might be somewhat rougher? Color: white wine. Nostril: similar, actually, and virtually undistinguishable on the nostril. Mouth: similar. Wonderful barleyness and, maybe, somewhat extra oranges this time. End: relatively lengthy, cakey, with some brioche, orange blossom water, then a bitterer aspect within the aftertaste, which pleases me. Feedback: nicely, the nostril was near that of the Orcines while the palate was nearer to that of the Artist. Very related ex-bourbon Glenlossies, all superb.
SGP:451 – 85 factors. |
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These had been some glorious apéritifs, time from some older Glenlossie! Vertically, in fact…
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Glenlossie 33 yo 1984/2018 (56.7%, Signatory Classic thirtieth Anniversary, cask #2533, refill sherry butt, 530 bottles) 
Angus tried this one already right here, however please let’s not test his tasting be aware… Color: amber. Nostril: a tad hottish at first however that is simply the impact of distinction… Typical notes of previous amontillado, I’d say, walnut cake plus somewhat kirschwasser, almonds, pecan pie, then nosing some contemporary raisin rolls straight from the bakery, definitely some cigars, mushrooms, candy bulldog sauce, tiny touches of Marmitte… With water: nonetheless severe, not precisely a type of luscious previous sherry casks, though these touches of camphor and cough medication would certainly recommend older age, must you do that one blind. Mouth: cherry cake and Seville oranges, marmalade, fairly some pepper, bitter tonic, liquid caramel, then a candy pinot gris, maybe… I’d imagine the upper energy tends to dam it a wee bit. With water: in the direction of chocolate and low, with much more walnuts and bitter almonds, previous pu-her tea… There’s additionally a small salty aspect that will recommend fino or manzanilla, though I doubt this might be any of these. End: lengthy, agency, each somewhat meady and tannic/oaky now. A sense of getting simply had some mocha ristretto within the relatively drying aftertaste. Feedback: an enormous, dry and tense boy.
SGP:361 – 89 factors. |
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Glenlossie 44 yo 1975/2019 (43.3%, Hunter Laing, Outdated & Uncommon, 278 bottles) 
Ah that Platinum Choice. I will all the time bear in mind the primary time we noticed a bottle (at DL occasions) in a store window. 99€ a bottle! We had been shocked, first time an indie bottling was bought at virtually 100€. Stunning and we had been shoking certainly… Brora, Glendullan, Ardbeg… Color: gold. Nostril: there, mead, honey, roasted raisins, pollen, dandelions, figs and dates, very previous cognac, peach syrup, a drop of coconut water… All superior, a relatively excellent beehive-y nostril. Mouth: in all probability somewhat controversial, because it’s began to leap to the opposite aspect, with a number of mint tea, walnut pores and skin, inexperienced tannins, somewhat an excessive amount of cinnamon… However the honeyed notes are nonetheless there, preventing to the final minute. Ought to we name it Glen Alamo? (pff, S.) End: medium and actually drying now. Liquorice wooden and robust black tea. Feedback: to be revered, like an previous actress. No, in fact no names. The nostril was superior, possibly we must always preserve this one in a crystal decanter and simply nostril it occasionally. In spite of everything, that is what trendy collectors do, besides that they do not even nostril their stuff. They usually preserve their decanters mendacity of their containers, tsk-tsk, that is not the way you safe an funding.
SGP:351 – 83 factors. |
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Did not we are saying three previous Glenlossies?…
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Glenlossie-Glenlivet 18 yo 1966/1984 (46%, Cadenhead, black dumpy)
Distilled in April, so that is Spring distillation (wow, you are in full type, S.!) Bottled when Cadenhead was nonetheless on the East Coast, in Aberdeen. We had tried a 1966/1979 again in 2005 and our conclusion had been that it was ‘one to drink relatively than gather!’ Color: gentle gold. Nostril: unimaginable the way it saved, you’ll imagine this was bottled proper this morning. Beautiful barley-y and citrusy rigidity, with somewhat lemongrass, agave, maybe avocado and somewhat horseradish, then the anticipated whiffs of steel polish and hen broth which might be to be discovered in lots of a ‘black dumpy’ and that all of us love a lot. Let’s simply by no means ask any chemists to analyse them, deal? Mouth: it is slowly going off the street now, with in all probability somewhat an excessive amount of metallic meatiness plus these chemical touches that remind us somewhat an excessive amount of of the final time we have had a few of Marks & Spencer’s strawberry yoghurt. Now the relatively intense miso-y aspect stays a belter. End: lengthy, dry, natural, bitter, metallic. Underberg within the aftertaste. Feedback: in fact, that is tough whisky, for the previous guard solely, maybe. One other Glen Alamo.
SGP:372 – 84 factors. |
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