Glenlivet 1975 20 Year Old First Cask #8899

Glenlivet 12 Year Old

This is what my family would consider an everyday (or even starter) Scotch, and I would agree. Certainly not the most complex whisky out there, but a smooth dram. The smell and taste of apples is quite nice.

Score 70/100

Glenlivet 11 Year Old 2007 Signatory for Brühler Whiskyhaus

This is already the 6th sister cask that I try from this series, all from the stables of Signatory. This cask was filled on the 27th of March 2007 (just like cask #900130 for Getränkenwelt Weiser & Flickenshild and cask #900131 for The Whisky Exchange) and bottled in august 2018 for the German shop Brühler Whiskyhaus. The ABV at first glance...

Score 89/100

Glenlivet 42 Year Old 1973 Cadenhead

Wow, this is mightily old stuff, right? A Glenlivet from the 1970s: how often do you get the chance to try this? It’s a vatting of several casks, actually (although no indication is given about the number of casks exactly), that yielded a malt at 40.2%. You got the hint, right? O.M.G. Stop the press! Delicious panoply of tropical fruit: melon,...

Score 89/100

Glenlivet Founder's Reserve

On ice at Intercontinental Hotel, Madrid, sipping spring water along. It pours pale golden with green shades and oily streaks. Mild aromas of grain (mainly corn; barley and wheat too), some banana. Mouthfeel is powerful and dry. Taste is rather mild (which the nose foresaw) with umami and mild tannins. Boozy, warm finish in the surprisingly long...

Score 86/100