Glendronach 21 Year Old 1989 Cask #3314

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 Glendronach cask strength batch 2

There's been some time now that Glenfarclas and Aberlour have had the young/NAS cask strength sherry-monster partition of the market practically all to themselves with their respective iconic bottlings: the 105 and A'bunadh. This isn't that surprising though, even though their isn't a lack of potential competitors, but the fact that the 105 and...

Score 89/100

Glendronach 1993 17 Year Old cask #529

The oloroso sherry cask number 529 yielded no less than 627 bottles of this syrupy colored liquid, at a strength of 60,5% ABV. This GlenDronach matured for 17 years, so I'll bet it's very similar to the standard 15 Year Old Revival of the same Speyside distillery. The nose is special, to say the least. And while I expected more sherry tones (they...

Score 80/100

Glendronach 12 Year Old Original

I think this is my first taste of a GlenDronach. This is the entry level of the range which is matured for 12 years in a mix of Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez casks. The nose offers nice and very sweet sherry. I have samples of sherry in my cabinet and the smell reminds me of Manzanilla or Oloroso, the Glendronach 12yo is not as sweet as pure PX. But...

Score 84/100