Glen Grant reviews

The Angel’s Choice-series from Malts of Scotland consists of half bottles (35cl that is), filled with exceptional whiskies that would otherwise be too expensive. Well, this baby is already 130 EUR, but…

This older bottling of the Glen Grant 10 Year Old, in a small rectangular bottle, was released in the 80s of last century (that has a weird ring to it, no?) for the Italian market, where this brand…

Thanks to a unique Facebook contest, my friends and I won a Glen Grant tasting early 2011. I took a sample of each whisky that was poured and will try them properly now. Let us start with the Major’s…

This 25 Year Old Glen Grant (poured from a screwcapped 750ml bottle) was put to market a few decades ago by the oldest bottler in Scotland, Gordon & Macphail. I wonder if it can stand the test of comp…

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…

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…

OK, the official bottlings have been tasted, time for some Indies. Let us start with a 17 Year Old single cask Glen Grent from A.D. Rattray.The nose is alive and kicking and very aromatic on pears,…

I picked up this bottle mainly because I saw it advertised for around $45ish AUS dollars. This is quite cheap for a single malt in the land down under, especially for a malt that is not widely known…

Tonight's theme is 100% one cask maturation (but it's bound not to work out perfectly)Nose is light and very fruity, even floral with a touch of rose. Some alcohol aromas. First sip is honeyed and soft…