Whisky Reviews

[arawa]

Currently have a bottle of this on the go. Bought for me as a birthday treat. I'd agree with the tasting notes that it's a grown up fruit cake in a glass. One for the sherry cask whisky fans.

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/9731/glendronach-15-year-old-revival-sherry-cask

Excellent bottle from an excellent distillery. I am a fan of Glendronach but you need to be careful if buying their Parliament as the new version is no longer bottled at 48% and is chill filtered. There are still bottles of the previous version around but they are pushing or exceeding £200 now.

[Jon]

Excellent bottle from an excellent distillery. I am a fan of Glendronach but you need to be careful if buying their Parliament as the new version is no longer bottled at 48% and is chill filtered. There are still bottles of the previous version around but they are pushing or exceeding £200 now.

I'm a fan of the distillery myself too. I've also watched recent events and witnessed some steep price rises across multiple distilleries.

I also have an unopened bottle of the Allardice. But I'm waiting until I've killed this bottle and another before opening that.

I'm also a fan of GlenAllachie. Their 10 year old cask strength releases are pretty good. Billy Walker has been doing a sterling job since he took over there. 

[burnie]

I'm waiting for Port Ellen to open again, supposed to have happened in 2020, I wonder if Dod still works in the Maltings?

[Jon]

Port Ellen, Brora and Rosebank. All legendary names all in the process of reopening.

I bought an Islay collectors set years ago. Two Caol Ila, two Lagavulin and one Port Ellen 20cl bottle. I was going to open it but then googled how much these things sell for these days. So it's collecting dust somewhere.

[superscot]

I have a couple of bottles of Rosebank bought one drunken sat night from an auction site many years ago and never opened them as i have tasted and nothing to write hame about. Worth a lot of money now ....

[SoldierPmr]

The select is very young whisky, not my taste at all, to make up for short supplies due to mis planning most distilleries' are chucking out no age statement bottles for the most part un drinkable for me, I don't them too old, but there's no character of the distillery in these young 'uns, 8 to 15 years old are right for my taste. There are some fine whisky with no age statement Laphroaig Quarter Cask a case in point, but that is mostly over 5 years old. Select is mostly under 5.

I do enjoy quarter cask. I had select a couple of years ago and like you said I did find it lacking. It had that Laphroaig taste but also felt like it was lacking at the same time.

[burnie]

I got a bonus about 15 years ago and bought a bottle of Port Ellen at around £150, can't see any anywhere for less than a £grand these days, perhaps I shouldn't have drunk it...................I still have the box and the empty bottle.

[Jon]

Last night I enjoyed a GlenAllachie tasting at a local specialist shop. They'd sent a rep down to host along with the store owner.

In addition to the 8 YO, 12 YO and batch 9 cask strength 10 YO they had chosen to focus on the different woods they use which was a nice change.

We also tried a 7 year old Hungarian oak side by side with an 8 year old Scottish oak. It's quite amazing just how different these two were. The 2012 cuvee wine cask was good too. But overall the 12 YO won it for me. And I'm now in possession of a bottle sitting next to the cask strength.

[arawa]

Just been supping this present from my son. Very very nice.

[superscot]

Very nice indeed