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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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Might 26, 2022
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Little Trios, right now Glen Garioch
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First the official 12 that we maintain following, then two (a lot) older indies which will, or might not, showcase pink bananas…
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Glen Garioch 12 yo (48%, OB, +/-2021) 
Aren’t all of us anticipating to return throughout the utter glory of the 1971-1975 Glen Gariochs once more? Who’s misplaced the recipe? Anyway, we maintain following this 12 and check out it nearly as soon as each three or 4 years. Make that 5. Color: gold. Nostril: hey? Good roasted honey cake and notes of engine oil, exhausts, strawberry jam, blood orange jam and prickly pears. I keep in mind I actually appreciated a ‘2016’ however that is nicer but, fats, assertive, simply not as phenolic and vast as Nineteen Seventies batches, regardless of an apparent sooty aspect. Maybe did they lastly discover the previous settings in a drawer? (yeah proper). However did not Louis XIV say that nothing grand was ever made inside someday? Mouth: I might swear we’re shifting in direction of Nineteen Seventies grandeur. Fab mangos, smoky peppers, tangerine paste, oils, pomegranate jam, Szechuan pepper, citric hops (IPA), and simply lemons… Fairly sensible, this. End: lengthy, tropical and barely peaty. Very good citrusy aftertaste. Feedback: I may very well be dreaming (chasing myths, you understand) however I’ve the impression that GG’s wonderful days are about to be again. Improbable tropical fruits and firmness.
SGP:652 – 87 factors. |
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Glen Garioch 31 yo 1990/2021 (53.9%, WhiskySponge, refill hogshead, 201 bottles) 
I’ve heard this should not be too unhealthy (one other euphemism on WF). I appear to recollect these early Nineties batches have been stuffed with western backyard fruits, particularly every kind of apples and plums. Color: full gold. Nostril: hey it is robust! A barely waxy appleness certainly, moderately some greener fruits, inexperienced bananas, greengages, gooseberries, plus some limestone and recent rainwater. With water: new sweater, washing powder, limestone, uncooked wool, camphor, rubbed mint leaves, all issues which can be simply good. What we have not present in a Sponge bottling but is a word of… sponge. Mouth (neat): completely glorious, paraffiny and citrusy. A contact of icing sugar. I say no extra, let’s strive it with water… With water: at its finest, jammier, wider, with liquorice allsorts, mango syrup, pink bananas, peppermint, contact of hops, banana foam… End: moderately lengthy, splendidly fruity, jammy, with a honeyed signature. A humorous drop of Jamaican rum within the aftertaste, in addition to, maybe, a drop of previous Bushmills. And why not? Feedback: good, I used to be mistaken as soon as extra, this has each western orchard fruits and tropical ones. Maybe the work of time on a superb hogshead. Sensible and extremely recent, these casks might simply go to 50 or far more.
SGP:651 – 90 factors. |
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Glen Garioch 32 yo 1988/2021 (47.9%, The Whisky Company, Personal Inventory, hogshead, 138 bottles) 
We have to keep in mind to thank all these nice enterprise varieties which can be keen to half with their very own ‘non-public’ shares and reserves, however it’s true that the trade’s at all times been very altruistic. Controversies solely on postcards please. Color: full gold. Nostril: narrower, tighter, sort of extra pungent than the Sponge, with extra chalk and bread dough, past comparable bananas and apples. Apart from that, you are feeling it is slowly getting candied, in a approach, and extra piney. Whiffs of myrtle and fresh-sawn eucalyptus wooden, even new teak wooden. New sauna. Mouth: some piney woods creeping in, but in addition some beautiful sultanas and dried goji berries. Guavas, pepper, apple peel, uncooked artisan cider, borage and sorrel… This one’s something however ‘apparent’, and actually wants your consideration. Nothing is granted right here, it’s nearly avantgarde whisky. Sort of. End: lengthy, just a little prickly, however splendidly fruity and leafy. Small berries. Feedback: this one leads you by the nostril, each actually and figuratively. It wants time.
SGP:651 – 89 factors. |
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