Glen Grant 31 Year Old 1969 Specialty Drinks

Specialty Drinks is the company from Sikhinder Singh, who is better known as the wealthy owner of the The Whisky Exchange, a beautiful whisky shop in London. This 31 Year Old Glen Grant from 1969 on sherrycask was bottled in 2000. It is the darkest Glen Grant I ever tasted. Actually, that I ever even saw! It has the colour of cough syrup.

Oh, what a mighty sherry nose! The fresh Glen Grant (apples, pears) is completely wrapped in rum raisins, fresh figs, some rhubarb and coffee. Even a slice of brown bread. Becomes sweeter as you leave it. Violets (the purple candy, not the flower!), eucalyptus. Tangerines and raspberry marmalade. This is wonderful.

The attack is powerful with loads of cinnamon and nutmeg. Wonderful balance between the sherry notes on the one hand, which now also boasts dark chocolate, and the fresh white fruit that will not be subdued on the other. Perfectly quaffable, despite the high ABV.

On the finish, the tannins emerge that make it somewhat drying, but it is by no means a party pooper.

A grand Glen Grant, by any standard. Thanks, Foamy.

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