Glenfiddich reviews

Glenfiddich is still the world’s best selling single malt and in recent years they have done their utmost to expand the range. Successfully, I might add. But thanks to a friend who offered me this sample…

This is a 21 Year Old single malt that was finished in French Oak icewine casks, rumoured to be from Peller Estates. Malt Master Brian Kinsman believed that an older whisky was needed to stand up to the…

It's fashionable for "advanced" whisky aficionados to criticize big distilleries and turn up their collective noses at all their offerings while lauding smaller craft distillers for being small and…

Nose: lots of bright, heady aromas here. Juicy tangerine, candied lemon peel, dried mango. Underneath the vibrant fruit there is brown sugar and butterscotch. Sparkling, clean, and malty.Taste: soft…

Oh, I've tasted this so many times, and even beyond: it's the scotch I remember my parents used to sip around the house when I was a kid (the adult world, forbidden for children: smoking, drinking,…

I realized I never posted a review of this whisky despite the fact that next to JW Black it's probably the whisky I've had the most of as it was my brother's house whisky for many years. This is aged for…

Glenfiddich Fire & Cane is the fourth release in the "Experimental Series". It's matured in ex-bourbon casks for an undisclosed period of time and then finished for 3 months in "South American" rum casks…

As far as I am concerned, this Glenfiddich Grand Cru could have been launched as the 5 release in the so-called Experimental Series, for after the regular bourbon and sherry maturation, this whisky was…

This 15-year old Glenfiddich expression consists of 3 different elements: 1) whiskies aged in ex-sherry casks, 2) whiskies aged in ex-bourbon casks, and 3) whiskies aged in ex-bourbon casks that are then…

Nose: Good grief, this is like sticking your head into a whisky-soaked barrel. The signature fruitiness of Glenfiddich is fairly buried under damp and fresh wood aromas, but it does emerge in time alo…