Glenlivet 30 Year Old 1981 Cask 9458 Cask Strength Collection Signatory

Glenlivet Signatory The Whisky Castle Cask Collection No. 19

One of the highlights from my trip to the Speyside Whisky Festival was The Whisky Castle in Tomintoul, a wonderful shop with a large and very eclectic selection. The owner and I had a lot to talk about, especially when I learned that he used to edit documentaries in Utah, if you can believe it! (I am a film distributor, so we had a lot to talk...

Score 76/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

Nose: Homemade buttery banana caramel pudding. Sherry overtones, and one can imagine a dry Bartlett pear in the back. Palate: Opens with the smooth creaminess and tartness of a mouth-watering limoncello, but without the sweetness. This develops to guava, smoothed over with faint caramel. Above the guava are other light flavors of nutmeg and wild...

Score 86/100

Glenlivet 15 Year Old French Oak Finish

Nose: vanilla oak, toffee cream, cookie dough, dried apricot, walnut, pineapple Taste: vanilla, orange zest, sweet cream, light oak, touch of strawberry Arrival: flavour develops quite slowly at the front of the tongue and moves backward. Quite weak and ineffective. Finish: abrupt and unexpected. Sort of a lack-lustre drop-off. On the palate this...

Score 60/100

Glenlivet 16 Year Old Nadurra

I have a faiblesse for cask strength whisky. I have had other Glenlivets and found them nice but perhaps lacking Power. The Nàdurra CS does not lack Power nor taste. Nose First whiff I'm being met by delicious green apples, citrus, oranges and mandarins. A real fruitbasket. Putting my nose to it again I begin to sense some vanilla notes...

Score 86/100