I had to dig real deep to find some tasting notes that I hadn’t published yet. For some reason I keep not getting around to really sitting down and trying some new drams, unfortunately. I have some tasting notes here and there, but they’re far from interesting. A Glengoyne from 1973 might just be a wee bit more fancy, right?

I think (!) I got this sample from Teun when I visited his place a long time ago, but that might not be true. I simply can’t remember. I think I wrote these notes around Christmas, so they’ve been gathering dust for a bit too.

Nose:
Vanilla, sweet coconut and banana. The sweet notes of the white oak are present too. An entirely different sweetness than European oak. It smells like a dessert in a glass, this whisky. Light, and maybe a tad on the cloyingly sweet side. After a few minutes it gets a bit dryer with more straw and farm smells.

Taste:
Sweet with a hint of chili pepper and spices. Again, a little bit dry but in a very nice way. It’s a lot less fruity than this one, and there is quite some wood to compensate for that.

Finish:
And the fruit is back! A complete fruit salad, mostly the tinned kind with syrup. More bourbonny flavours too. Dry leaves, a sweet waxiness. The flavour softens a bit and the peppers are more in check.

A very nice Glengoyne, but different than what I expected. That might have to do with the fact that you don’t come accross many Glengoynes from bourbon barrels. I do miss the fruit a little bit, though.

Glengoyne 1973, 05-02-1973 – 03-2010, 37 years old, Malts of Scotland for Belgium, bourbon barrel, 50.4%, used to cost around € 180.