Glen Scotia 10 Year Old

Glen Scotia 11 Year Old 2007 Single Cask Selection Winter 2018

A young Glen Scotia that matured on a whisky cask? That sounds interesting. Distilled in 2007 and after 11 years on a Bordeaux cask it still yielded 292 bottles. This is an official release in their so-called Single Cask Selection. The nose is pretty dirty on loads of peat that wrap a smoky jacket around all kinds of red fruit. Think strawberry,...

Score 87/100

Glen Scotia 1992 Malts of Scotland cask 429

This is my very first Glen Scotia, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I found that Glen Scotia operates by the grace (and in the shadow) of her big brother Springbank and is in dire need of investment. Recent photos of the distillery show that she’s quite run down. Operating only three months a year means the outturn is only 15% of the actual...

Score 79/100

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old 2008 Single Cask Selection #465

A single cask Glen Scotia – first fill bourbon barrel 465 – that was released as ‘Spring 2019’. Let’s get to work! The nose is a veritable liquid candy! Unrefined sugar. Vanilla like there’s not tomorrow, but also quite a bit of lime and apricots. Remember those apricot flavored Superman logos? Then a fresh bouquet of flowers and molded wood. Not...

Score 85/100

Glen Scotia 13 Year Old 2005 single Cask Selection #17/413-8

I am happy to put two sister cask from Glen Scotia head-to-head: cask #17/413-2 against cask #17/413-8, both put to sleep in 2005 and both bottled in 2019. The first is a Tawny Port Hogshead that yielded 299 bottles, the second an oloroso sherry cask that yielded 328 bottles. Both were bottled at cask strength. Let’s finish with the oloroso cask...

Score 86/100