Glen Grant reviews

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…

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,…

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…

Whisky Import Nederland has been bottling single casks at cask strength for a couple of years under their First Cask label. In that range, this Glen Grant 1985 was released, a 23 Year Old matured on…

This 1992 Cellar Reserve is something of an odd one out. Originally only available at the distillery, but the release of 13.542 bottles soon found its way to the market. It is 16 years old, but was not…

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 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 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…

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…