Glen Elgin 1969 40 Year Old First Fill Sherry Hogshead Gordon & Macphail Private Collection

Glen Elgin 30 Year Old 1986 Signatory for Flander's Finest Cask Selection

Our Flemish friends of Flander's Finest Cask Selection had also discovered this 30 years old Glen Elgin, that started its hibernation on 11 September 1986. It was bottled on 10th May 2017 and thus had slept three full decades on a hogshead. It is surprisingly pale. Wonderful nose, a bit waxy and old school, on pineapple and Seville oranges. Some...

Score 86/100

Glen Elgin SMWS 85.25 - Orange blossom honey straws

Distilled at Glen Elgin in October 1999, this sat in a refill hogshead for 13 years, yielding only 312 bottles. The colour is a light-to-medium gold. On the nose, rather young and spirity with subtle tropical fruits, light honey, mint, heather and lemon. Solvent speaks to its youth (though it's a year older than the standard Glen Elgin 12, which I...

Score 85/100

Glen Elgin 35 Year Old 1975 The Whisky Agency

The Whisky Agency has bottled no less than four casks for 1975 Glen Elgin (or at least parts of it, judging from the number of bottles). Three in the Perfect Dram series and this one from the so-called Landscape series. The bourbon hoggie yielded 186 bottles, of which some can still be found today. The nose starts off dusty, as if I am nosing this...

Score 86/100

Glen Elgin Duncan Taylor Dimensions 12 Year Old

My last review looked at the standard distillery bottling of Glen Elgin 12 Year Old (I scored it an 88). This Glen Elgin is also 12 years old, but is bottled by Duncan Taylor for their Dimensions collection. I don't have the label in front of me (I'm tasting from a sample) but as it's bottled at 46% ABV it is not cask-strength (though it is...

Score 90/100