All Whisky reviews

This one is the older brother of the 10 year old Curiositas I’ve reviewed in the past. Every year only 4800 bottles of this fine nectar are released.at 46% ABV, it’s non chill filtered, and natural…

I already tasted a ‘Virgin Oak’ finished GlenDronach, the 14 Year Old at a drinking strength of 46%. This one is bottled at cask strength as it’s a young single cask. GlenDronach drove around Belgium in…

For their third edition of ‘Cask in a Van’ (from 20th to 25th June 2011), GlenDronach used a sherry butt that yielded 660 bottles. The whisky was matured in a Pedro Ximinez cask and bottled after 8 Years…

The Whisky Festival Ghent has, like every festival that respects itself, a festival bottling. In 2011 it was an 8 Year Old GlenDronach on Virgin Oak. In fact, it was a sistercask to the ‘Cask in a Van’…

We’re climbing the age ramp , and after having 16,17 year olds, we’ve reached the more mature 20 and 21 year old (next post). For a 20 year old whisky , this one is well priced at around £51, yet the 43%…

The former 21 was finished in Cuban Rum casks, which were then switched to Caribbean Rum casks , as not to upset the American market … The Casks are also filled with rum again in the GF distillery prior…

This whisky is quite interesting as it’s matured in 3 types of casks (American bourbon, Portuguese sherry and virgin oak), After which the whisky is married in a Solera vat .Nose: Dried fruit, Kirsch,…

This one is a fairly new release from GF. In essence it was aged for 14 years in used oak casks, then finished in new wood casks (which had see no bourbon before) ,in a mix of new are American and Eur…

Nose: Classic Speyside Apple and pears, Text book nose really. Malty, with a bit of citrusy edge.Palate: Light, the fruits from the nose are here to stay, floral even, some sugar and spice in the back…

This 15 Year Old GlenDronach 'Revival' (batch 2010) is a classic in the GlenDronach range, so no wood finish. It was matured on oloroso sherry casks. ‘Revival’ refers to the… err… revival of the disti…