Glen Garioch 1971 59.6% 75cl 2280 Bottles Samaroli
AVAILABILITY: OUT OF STOCK Distillery: Glen Garioch - Status: Active - Region: Highlands Vintage: 1971 Alcohol Vol: 59.6% CL/ML: 75 cl Bottler: Samaroli N. of Bottles produced: 2280 Details: Sherry
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Taken from Whiskyfun.com
96 Points
Colour: almost mahogany.
Nose: again a sherry monster, but this time with a big, bold peat, somehow a la Ardbeg. Haha! Incredibly rich and complex. But what a nose! Lots of meaty aromas (grandma’s meatloaf). Top notch Italian coffee, garden bonfire, Worcester sauce, tabasco, humus, burnt tyre a la Port Ellen, brand new tyre… The list could be endless… And this beautiful sherry! Triple wow, but will the mouth stand up to this extraordinary nose?
Mouth: oh yeah! A cathedral, even better than the nose. I don’t know where to start… Ok, first you have all these coffeeish notes: coffee itself, burnt cake, coffee liquor, dark toffee… Then you have the peat – but one of the most subtle and magnificent peat I ever came accross. Different woods’ smokes, seaweed smoke… And finally lots of cooked fruits. No need to tell you which, they’re all in there. As for the finish, it’s long of course, but also very complex and subtle, on ‘smoked’ fruitcake.