Glenturret 12 Year Old Bottled 1980's

Glenturret 16 Year Old 30th Anniversary Scottish Weekend

The Scottish Weekend in Alden-Biezen (Belgium) took place for the 30th time this year. That was celebrated with a festival bottling: a 16 Year Old Glenturret. One of the 750 bottles was open at the Antwerp Whisky Festival where I scored my sample. Lemon, gooseberries, vanilla and – most of all – a truckload of caramel. That is this Glenturret’s...

Score 82/100

Glenturret 30 Year Old 1982 The Maltman

Glenturret is a distillery that does not appear on my radar often, but recently my whisky buddy Manny offered me a sample of a 30 years old. Could not pass that up, obviously. It was bottled several years ago by the Meadowside Blending Company under their ‘The Maltman’ label. The nose is very pleasant and sweet on vanilla, lime sorbet, fresh kiwi...

Score 86/100

Glenturret 18 Year Old

This 18 Year Old Glenturret was already bottled in 1990, meaning it is a distillate of the late ‘70s – of last century, obviously. The nose starts off pleasant enough with sweet malt, apples and oranges. Mildly sweet and sour. Something candy-like and a lot of honey. Not much else going on, but having said that, there is nothing wrong with it...

Score 76/100

Glenturret Peated Edition

The days that peated whisky was solely produced on Islay are long gone (actually, they never existed). Quite a few distilleries like to experiment with pated malt, including Glenturret. This is their Peated Edition, of which the production is normally destined to go into their blend Black Grouse, but is now presented as single malt. Wonderfully...

Score 82/100