Glendronach 1989 20 Year Old PX Sherry Puncheon #3833

Glendronach Octarine

This limited edition GlenDronach Octarine (“the colour of magic”) was developed in May 2010, exclusively for the Carrefour supermarkets in France. As often with these “exclusive” releases, they turned up in other stores afterwards. It is a vatting of bourbon and sherry casks, said to be 8 years old although there’s no age statement on the label....

Score 81/100

GlenDronach 1972 single cask 718

Nose: wow, this is quite surprising. Plenty of fruits here, but not the obvious dried ones. There’s poached fruits (pears, yellow plums) but also overripe mango, blood orange, some passion fruit and notes that remind me of different sorts of fruit jelly (quince jelly, raspberry gums and cassis sweets). Some butter toffee. Faint hints of cardamom....

Score 93/100

Glendronach 18 Year Old Allardice Sherry Cask

GlenDronach 18 doesn’t get much love. Its 15 year old brother seems to be the brand’s poster child, and a benchmark to which the rest of the range gets compared. As the 18 year old is both more expensive and less “accessible,” it’s perfectly normal that it takes a bit of flak. But we’ve still got to try it, haven’t we? Nose: Deep, dark, and very...

Score 86/100

GlenDronach The Hielan 8

My brother invited me over to try this. From what I can gather it's a bit different than the regular GD house style in that it leans more on the bourbon barrels than Sherry. I'm not certain if it's mix of different barrels or a case secondary maturation, little details exist. Don’t want to stir the pot but it’s nice to see 8 years on the front...

Score 83/100