Glenlivet 2003 The Distillery Reserve Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenlivet |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2003 |
| Bottled Year | 2019 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 62.1% |
| Volume | 500 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
please see my comments about capsules above! This bottle had a perfect filling level when opened, probably in never lost a single millilitre in 60+ years in glass. And yet, this whisky has gathered an undeniably funk that feels like a profile we've encountered before with old screw caps and spring caps in particular. Loads of forest mushrooms, baked vegetables, hints of carboard, metal polish, medicinal roots, old copper coins leather bags but also behind that some very similar characteristics to the 15yo, with big impressions of cask aged mead, huge waxiness, herbal medicinal and liqueur-ish properties. With water: cider apple funk that suggest young calvados, alongside more wild mushrooms, more aged game meats, pinot noir, truffle, mead, more metal polish and old sooty iron coal hearths
restaurant Palate
it's really two whiskies at the same time, on the negative side this funkiness and funny vegetal side extends to the palate and delivers some grubbiness and muddy notes. On the positive side, it's very close in texture and fatness to the 15yo, with similar magnificent saltiness, tar, waxes and herbal flavours. With water: at its cleanest with water, but still a challenging beast of opposing personalities. Some stunningly salty and peaty flavours coming through with more assertion and precision now, also touches of mint, big camphor and more chunky earthy notes
timer Finish
very long, immensely long in fact, glowing warm with peaty, sooty, earthy and medicinal rooty notes. Liquorice, caraway and hessian jumbled up in the aftertaste
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