Glen Elgin 1996 vW The Ultimate
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glen Elgin |
| Bottler | van Wees (vW) |
| Bottling Series | The Ultimate |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | Virgin Oak Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
this is more exuberant, one would say more ‘talkative’. More medicinal as well, with lots of iodine, bandages… Great notes of pure cocoa, roasted nuts (without sugar or caramel, mainly peanuts) and toasted bread. It gets smokier and smokier, rather on cold ashes and coal oven just like the Whisky Fair. Gets then more classically Ardbeg, with lots of peat smoke and hints of kelp as well as a little tar. The heavy cocoa is quite unusual – and it’s no sherry cask. With water: it got even more on milk chocolate and peanut butter. Even Nutella (don’t tell the kids!) Very interesting – a breakfast Ardbeg?
restaurant Palate
yes, it’s great. Extremely dry, peaty and peppery, sharp like a blade but maybe just a tad too spirity, that is. Too bad because the profile is perfect, but better add a little water: okay, it got much more classical, balanced but full bodied, not oo spirity anymore. I’d say it fell back into line, with a typical ‘Ardbegian’ profile – you know what I mean. Maybe not a complete revelation but this one is certainly more entertaining than the average recent indie 15 yo Ardbeg. 90 points . MUSIC – Recommended listening (jazz): at the bridge of free jazz and rap, we have the fabulous Steve Coleman and his M-base collective playing- and shouting - Oyá Natureza.mp3 . Really free, Mr Coleman. Please buy his music. April 13 , 2007 PETE McPEAT AND JACK WASHBACK TASTING – YOUNG AND OLDER GLEN ELGINS Glen Elgin 10 yo 1996/2007 (46%, Signatory UCF, virgin oak barrels, cask #2328+29, 633 bottles)
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