Another one of those whiskies that’s a mouth full to write down as a title. One that is nearing it’s end of life on my shelf, with only a couple more glasses to go.

This one is a bourbon cask matured one, bottled a couple of years ago under their ‘Vintage Release’ label. I don’t think there’s one after 2020, so they only did 3 of those. Raise your hand if you think distilleries/brands think of new series too often and should stick with what they have for longer!

Sniff:
This is quite different from what you expect Glen Scotia to be. It’s a rather clean, barley driven whisky with some coastal salinity and oak. Not a lot of the typical funkiness that makes people either love or hate the distillery. There’s straw and mineral-y slate as well.

Sip:
The palate has all the same flavors as before, but shuffles them around a little bit. Where the nose brought mostly clean barley, here it’s the minerals, slate and salinity that play first fiddle. Oak, straw and later on there’s some sweet apple and vanilla showing up.

Swallow:
The finish continues down the same lines. It’s holding the middle ground between the nose and palate, with an equal split between coastal notes and barley notes.

It’s rather tasty but rather nondescript. The worst thing this is doing is that it’s being a tad boring. It’s a pretty decent and enjoyable whisky, of course, but it is just not what you expect when buying a bottle of Glen Scotia. And that is a bit of a disappointment.

84/100

Still available in The Netherlands for € 90