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| Hello, that is one among our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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August 10, 2021
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Summer time Duets
Right now indie Glen Garioch, younger and previous |
| I at all times get pleasure from doing these quick ‘younger and previous’ classes, so long as each are good. As for Glen Garioch, it is good enjoyable to attempt to navigate between the distillery’s numerous kinds, which might have gone from the peatiest makes (early-to-mid Seventies) to some a lot fruitier, simpler profiles (Nineteen Nineties…) through these wackier soapy batches that have been additionally to be met at Bowmore at the moment. Proper, the Nineteen Eighties… |
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Glen Garioch 12 yo 2008/2021 (59.4%, Cask 88, Unfiltered Sequence, refill bourbon barrel, cask #640, 230 bottles) 
Color: straw. Nostril: a firmer fashion once more after fairly a couple of very fruity years, with extra oils and waxes, one thing clearly Clynelishy, an apparent minerality round limestone and damp chalk, a couple of drops of fruity beer, then quite numerous plums on the fruit part. Preserved greengages, successful once I was a child. Some porridge and a few dough within the background, that is clearly malty. With water: it will simply get slightly gentler, however the profile, simply because the music, would stay the identical (with a nod to LedZep followers). Contemporary dough at a baker’s, yeast, plums, chalk, sunflower oil… Mouth (neat): tart, pungent and intensely lemony, you’d virtually worry it will assault your gums. Spectacular tartness, actually, however then once more, virtually 60% vol. So… With water: very spectacular, very tart, with extra granny smith and lemons, inexperienced tea, chalk… It’s each oily and waxy and really tart and virtually acidic, which in reality works very properly. End: very lengthy, with extra ‘inexperienced’ fruits, starfruits, goji, physalis, jujubes… Numerous vitamin C on this wee Glen Garioch! Feedback: a fighter.
SGP:571 – 88 factors. |
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And the older brother… (or twenty years earlier…)
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Glen Garioch 31 yo 1988/2019 (49.1%, Hunter Laing, Platinum Previous & Uncommon, 223 bottles)
Let’s have a look at whether or not violets and lavender are nonetheless lurking within the shadow or in the event that they have been already gone, gone, gone. Color: full gold. Nostril: no soapy tones in anyway, we’re secure this far. We’re quite wandering all through some tropical forest, with eucalyptus smells, mushrooms (magic ones, if attainable), cedar wooden, thuja, inexperienced tea, patchouli, slightly vetiver, whiffs of fresh-roasted pistachios, then pine needles, most likely slightly humus, previous stump, menthol… That is all very beautiful, refined and most elegant, however in my expertise, these piney noses might result in palates which have gone bone-dry and too resinous. Let’s have a look at… Mouth: one thing like that certainly, however we’re extraordinarily removed from any ueber-resinousness. Robust tea, menthol tobacco, thyme tea, liquorice wooden, grapefruit, nori, a wee feeling of turpentine, concentrated lemon juice, crunching pine needles (once we have been children), macha… Certainly it’s all fairly inexperienced. End: quite lengthy, superb, with none extreme dryness, I’d say it will even are inclined to turn into lighter and fruitier. Citrus. Feedback: slightly horrifying at occasions, however it overcame all obstacles. Fairly uncommon and quite fascinating previous Glen Garioch.
SGP:571 – 88 factors. |
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