Yet another undisclosed distillery. It is almost like that is a thing nowadays. This time it’s a Speyside one, just like yesterday. However, according to retailers, Whiskybase and most likely other sources of information, this is a bottling from Glenlivet.
Quite and old one at that, being bottled before the year 2000. Of course, I still don’t really think of that as old, since it was a single digit age statement when I started drinking whisky, and I can’t really come to grips with how old I have gotten since.
Anyway, old Speyside whisky from Glenlivet. I don’t taste all that much Glenlivet, so I went in without many expectations.
Sniff:
Sponge cake with a whiff of lemon and quite some honey and vanilla. After a little while it becomes more fruity, with more lemon, apples and pears. It’s a very fruity dram indeed!
Sip:
The palate is warming with a nice tingling sensation. It’s not as dry as the nose was, but there still is a note of honey and fruit. Candied lemon, baked apple and pear. A minor note of iron, which isn’t too strange with the apple. Heather, oak, vanilla, some pastry notes too.
Swallow:
The finish is not overly long and focuses slightly more on the dry notes of heather, wood and apples. The sweetness is rather diminished.
While I like that the sweetness goes down a bit towards the end, it does take some of the fruity notes with it as well. It’s a very middle of the road whisky, as you’d expect from Glenlivet, but one that is well executed.
88/100
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