Glen Grant reviews

Glen Grants is a distillery I came to late in my drinking career, but have an increasing respect and admiration for through the purity of their spirit and lack of complication in maturation. This was…

Nose (neat): sherry, Christmas cake, peppermint, candied apple, vanilla, cherries, licorice, banana. Very pleasant.Taste (neat): wonderful rich, oily mouth feel, very closed off taste-wise. Mostly oak…

Young, refreshing and life affirming. Well maybe not the last of those three, but for a very cheap single malt this provides a pleasant drinking experience. The label just says single malt... Not very…

Lonach is a label by Duncan Taylor and consists of single malts at high age at a very attractive price. The mixing of underproof and overproof casks to get the minimum required is something from the past…

Another Glen Grant from 1969 – a year of which we know by now that it was absolutely superb fort his distillery. This is a 2009 bottling from Signatory, drawn from a fresh oloroso sherry cask. That…

Glen Grant from 1974, already 14 years in the bottle. This is no official release, but from the famous bottler Scott’s Selection. It was bottled at cask strength. I got the sample at the most recent…

So, I'm still wandering around the lower range priced single malts, and the Glen Grant 10 year old fulfilled the next step of my whisky journey. Nose: Brisk caramel, pear, honey, cereals, slightly floral…

Glen Grant - best known as a cheap and commercial single malt usually drowned in orange or cola. But the lesser known side are bottlings such as this one. Now this is actually the first bottle on Glen…

Glen Grant 16Nose: Pears, apples , white pepper.Taste: Grape nuts , pear syrup, vanilla creme ,light pepper.Finish: light pepper throughout , cream puff , sugar cone,Balance : Very nice and zesty dram…

I was advised that this is a good everday malt (a gentleman's term for when after tasting four of your best ones and your taste buds and judgement are gone, you need to switch to something cheaper to…