Glenlivet reviews

I picked this up after reading a few good reviews. A 12yo at 48%, NCF and natural color? We're already off to a good start. Neat in a Glencairn. Nose: A fresh, fruity nose that gives pleasant notes of…

I hadn't tasted this bottling in years and was happy to receive one as a Christmas gift. Nose: mellow and sweet with candied fruit, especially citrus. Also enticing hints of field berries, which I find…

This bottle was my first ever taste of any Glenlivet which seems surprising to me. Just how did that slip me by? The general blab about this release is that it is pretty much the standard 12 but wit…

This is my second bottle of the 16yo Nadurra from THE Glenlivet. My first bottle that was very good was batch 0814D. I found this 0613X last September and grabbed it while I could, as finding these in…

Wow, this is mightily old stuff, right? A Glenlivet from the 1970s: how often do you get the chance to try this? It’s a vatting of several casks, actually (although no indication is given about the…

Weirdly enough I could hardly find any information on the Glenlivet… it’s not even on the famous Whiskybase. One of the source that did mention it was… my own blog! Apparently I had already tasted this…

We know that Belgian bottler The Nectar selects excellent casks. This is a first fill sherry hogshead that entertained the Glenlivet spirit for 12 years, judging by the color. But at what ABV did this…

Classic stuff as we taste one of the best-known, best-selling single malts in the world.Glenlivet 12 displays a clean, pale golden color and a rather low-intensity aroma (even after adding a drop of…

I had good reason to be wary of another NAS "reserve" bottling from Glenlivet, after trying Founder's Reserve. But this one is partially finished in cognac casks, so curiosity got the better of me. Sweet…

Well, then, here is the sixth and final sister cask from this series that I will be trying. Again one of those first fill sherry casks at extremely high ABV, filled in March 2007 and bottled in November…