Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
For Better AND For Worse
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Review by @Victor
- Nose23
- Taste23
- Finish22
- Balance17
- Overall85
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- Brand: Glenmorangie
- Type: Scotch
- Region: Highland
- ABV: 46%
Glenmorangie Port Wood finished Quinta Ruban reviews have been all over the map, good, middling, and bad. The reviewed bottle has been open for 19 months. The review is of the current bottle, with comments made as to how it got to the present state
Nose: fragrant port wine flavours, sweet, with a decent dry balance. Wine, malt, and very light peat are apparent. At this point this is great, and has gotten more intensely fragrant with some oxidation
Taste: Whoa! Jekyll and Hyde! This bottle of whisky was for almost a full year just a mishmash of flavours which did NOT jell together into anything coherent or good-tasting. Somewhere around 11-12 months after the bottle was opened this became coherent and delicious. It has stayed that way since. Delicious port wine flavours, good malt,light peat, mellow, and adequate wood support
Finish: nowadays, this is a very good finish, albeit with just a slight touch of sour over-oxidation added. Long finish, with the wine and malt combo going a long pleasant distance
Balance: this is a nice whisky since it has come together. Prior to that coming together this bottle of Quinta Ruban just didn't work at all for me. I would have rated this whisky 68 pts for 11 months. Scores for this review are for now, with 4 pts deducted from the balance score for having to wait a year for it. Whiskies like this pose a big question: would I really like to buy another bottle of something that I might not enjoy for a year's time? Probably not
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Victor, I decided to try the experiment. Despite a poor first experience with samples of this, I respect Glenmorangie enough (and your feedback) to give a second chance, to a bottle of this now.
How full should the bottle be for the 11 months? I've taken just 2 drams out... (And forced it down, for the sake of science.) So, to be continued.... in 1 year!