Glengoyne 17-year-old Black Decanter
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glengoyne |
| Bottler | - |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | - |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | - |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
wow! It really smells like an excellent Caol Ila, with something Ardbegish. Quite amazingly, it is not too spirity at first nosing, but rather very smoky and rubbery, somehow a la Port Ellen. Lots of brand new tyre aromas, new car, box of rubber bands. Some fresh and lively fruity notes arise after that smoky-rubbery blast: pear, apple, gooseberries, ripe kiwi, litchis… Some sea air too, plus some hints of wet hay and (clean) cow stable. Amazingly mature for such a young malt, it could as well have been a 10 yo . Simply flawless
restaurant Palate
incredible, it is drinkable at more than 67%. Very sweet, and much less rubbery than on the nose. Hints of fruit spirit coming from the young age, I guess. Lots of apple juice, pear juice, gentian. Quite grassy too, with some perfume… Okay, after three small sips, this is finally getting too strong, and my mouth gets anaesthetised. Let’s add some water now… Great, the malt reacts beautifully after the usual one or two minutes of saponification. Lots of fruity notes developing, mostly peach. There’s just kind of a strange metallic taste coming through after a few minutes, something like copper, which makes me think of some foreshots. The finish is long and very bold, again slightly metallic – but hey, it’s only three years old (and three months). This is extremely encouraging, to say the least – and I swear I’m not partial. 90 points , mainly for the great nose. By the way, Bruichladdich will start distilling its Islay grown barley on Monday, and will compare the result with some barley coming from three other places. They hope to stress the fact that 'Terroir' counts in whisky as it counts in wine. Hmm... Imagine it's true... What's sure, is that the barley itself counts, as we could find out when comparing some 'organic' newmake with some regular one... It was so good! TASTING - THREE NEW BATCHES OF GLENGOYNE Glengoyne 17 yo (43%, OB, 2004) Here’s the latest batch
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