Glenlivet 30-year-old Cellar Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenlivet |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2001 |
| Age | 30년 |
| Cask Type | American White Oak Finish |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
probably the most expressive of all three, but that’s no wonder as Glen Ord can be quite characterful. Chocolate-coated dried oranges, hints of cured ham, ale, chocolate and a little parsley that I already found in earlier batches. A tad ‘less light’ than both the Glendullan and the Dufftown superb nose, with a very obvious but very elegant oakiness. Quite some vanilla, honey, a little eucalyptus and whiffs of camphor. Gets then more and more resinous, together with some big notes of mirabelles and apricot. Very, very nice, keeps developing on honeyed notes we’re much more on Demerara sugar, dried fruits (apricots), honey, stewed fruits again and a little mint from the oak. It’s rather fresh but it’s also mildly expressive. Some marzipan and, just like in the 30, quite some pine resin. A drier version this one is much more expressive and lively, starting on bananas flambéed and a lot of vanilla, mirabelles again, nougat… Very fresh for a 30+ malt whisky. With water: the nutmeg from the wood comes out, more vanilla, just whiffs of cardboard. Less aromatic once diluted but still very nice this oldster starts on notes of old rum, with almost as much banana as in the 1972 as well as notes of dried pears and a little caramel. Fresh and aromatic. With water: strange that water blocks it, letting just more vanilla come through. Not a great swimmer smooth and rounded, all on honey, sultanas, ripe bananas, mint and liquorice. Extremely elegant, with a fantastic freshness. Goes on with plums, stewed peaches and a little melon. Whiffs of incense and cedar wood. Lovely oldie
restaurant Palate
ah yes, this is rather nice. Granted, it’s no big whisky but the big maltiness and the honeyed notes are very pleasant. Faint smokiness, orange cake, cloves, maybe wild thyme, liquorice drops… starts nervous, nicely peppered and oaked. Develops mostly on honey and various spices, with nutmeg first dry and oaky, tannic but still very elegant. Quite some soft spices, getting more and more peppery, with also a little mustard. Hints of rum nervous and fruity attack, on both tinned and fresh pineapples. Tastes rather younger than 33. Very good. With water: just as fresh, vanilled, fruity and mildly spicy beautiful attack, obviously rather oaky but it’s all smooth. Great fruitiness, sweets, mirabelle pie, then white pepper. With water: takes water better than on the nose. The pineapples are back superbly balanced between many dried fruits and a superbly polished oakiness. No obvious tannins but notes of cardamom and white pepper
timer Finish
rather long, smoky, malty and liquoricy. Honeydew (or fir tree honey) in the aftertaste long, rather spicy, with quite some stewed fruits medium long, finely mentholated, with quite some white pepper in the aftertaste medium long, clean, with these pleasant notes of bananas medium long, on vanilla, bananas and pineapples, ‘though it’s not quite ‘tropical’ medium long, maybe just a tad oakier
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