Glen Garioch reviews

One of the problems I have with trading samples with my fellow whisky society members is - I tend to forget about them. I mean, they're small bottles hiding in the cabinet! Then I usually find them at…

N: light fruit, green apple, vanilla, restrained, W/ H2O opens up slightly, no development. P: spicy, sharp arrival, some summer fruits,medium sweet, burns/hot F: burn continues, medium finish Overall…

Nose : Quite spicy, some coconut, lovely wood. fresh sort of. with some candy on the nose, banana and vanilla add crème Brule. rather creamy.Very Nice banana cream becomes more evident as time goes by…

This Glen Garioch is fresh, crisp, creamy and sugary. A warming desert. The nose offers aromas of a refreshing mint julep and milky caramel drizzled over a red and delicious apple. The cold woodsy scent…

This is a review of the new bottling, not the one with the stag, at 48%. Nose: The nose without water is a bit congested to me: powerful sweetness and woman's perfume. After adding two teasponns of water…

I will finish up my series of Glen Garioch with a special one. This is an old Glen Garioch, from the 70s of the previous century, bottled for the Italian importer Lemar from Bologna. It is bottled in…

Cadenhead is one Scotland’s oldest independent bottlers. Their Authentic Collection contains, among others, this Glen Garioch from 1990, bottled at cask strength in 2003.The nose is very feisty, almost…

This vintage 1986, a respectable quarter of a century old, was scored at the Spirits in the Sky festival. It matured on American Oak, whatever that means. Bourbon, sure, but 1st fill?The nose is sweet…

This is a recent German bottling of a 20 Year Old Glen Garioch, labelled The Whiskyman’s Dram, for the company of Dominiek Bouckaert. It is very pale, due to maturation on a refill hogshead.The nose…

This new (sorta) Glen Garioch 12 Year Old is bottled at a strength of 48% and has a nice full golden colour.The nose reveals a lot of malt, orchard fruit (apples and pears) and gooseberries, but als…