Glen Grant reviews

The last of my forgotten notes from last October, this was another purchased sample.I should note: I don't keep great track of the color of drams, so, for something this long ago, I have no idea what it…

Nose: Malty and lightly vanilla. Sweet grass, and a drop of sunflower oil. There's some fruti in there, but it's faint at first, and more tropical than red/purple. It bears the characteristics of a light…

Last week I met up with a good friend for dinner in town. We were going to one of his favorite restaurants, the Print Hall. He loves the food and the staff there love him.I knew they had a whisky that…

A great all rounder. If you want to know what a great malt whiskey should be like, this is it. You can use this to judge others by. I would recomend to anyone, and would be suprised if you did not like…

Gruppo Campari, who own the Glen Grant distillery (they bought it from Chivas Brothers in 2005), launched the Glen Grant 16 Year Old in 2009. It has been praised by many as the best in their current…

To celebrate the 170th birthday of the distillery in August 2010 no less than 17.000 bottles of this special edition were released. It is non-chill filtered, non-coloured and a marriage of some exclusive…

The Glen Grant 10 Year Old is not much more expensive than the Major’s Reserve, but is still an entry level malt. It matured on bourboncasks as well, but was then recasked for a final period of a year…

The German bottler The Whisky Agency makes his labels little works of art. This Glen Grant from 1972 in the series Grotesque Crocs was released in 2011, making it a 38 Year Old. Let us see if the cont…

This is a very old Glen Grant, bottled in 2009. The stuff is no less than 59 years old, because it came down the lyne arms when my dad was only three. Imagine that! The is the oldest Glen Grant I have…

When Irishman Raymond Armstrong took over the Bladnoch distillery, he could not bottle immediately. To get the cash flowing he bought casks from other distilleries, launched a forum for whiskylovers and…