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| Hello, that is one in every of our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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April 17, 2024
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Shiny Glenlossies, half 4 and final
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We’ll attempt to get by what we nonetheless have in inventory…
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Glenlossie 10 yo 2010/2020 (54.3%, James Eadie, recharred hogshead, cask #2479, 343 bottles) 
Color: white wine. Nostril: contemporary, with hints of hay, freshly minimize grass, apple, and lemon. Not an excessive amount of vanilla, however a captivating earthy facet. With water: Italian lemon biscuits, the title of which escapes me. A contact of candy woodruff, which I like. Mouth (neat): a pleasant lemony zing and inexperienced apple. Lemon brioche, once more with a really nice earthy facet. Pear as nicely. With water: merely put. The candy woodruff makes a comeback. End: medium size, balanced flavours and a stunning lemony freshness. Feedback: youthful and fully with out fault, particularly if you happen to love lemon as a lot as I do.
SGP:651 – 85 factors. |
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Glenlossie 11 yo 2008/2019 (59.6%, The Single Malts of Scotland, hogshead, cask #1358, 301 bottles)
This too, ought to be with out fault. Color: white wine. Nostril: very attention-grabbing to match with the rechar model, right here there’s much less vanilla, however extra white flowers, roses, and peppermint. It is very elegant, one may nearly dab a couple of drops behind their ears. Additionally, notes of Golden Grahams and Fruit Loops – choose your favorite model. With water: contemporary fruits, apples, peaches… Mouth (neat): fruitier and decidedly sweeter than the 2010 (icing sugar), then far more herbaceous and peppery as a second impression. With water: our beloved peaches make a comeback. Barley syrup, apple juice. End: fairly lengthy, with a really good stability between backyard fruits and all issues gently malted. Feedback: all these younger casks are wonderful, nothing to criticise particularly because the costs are all the time particularly reasonable. Really loyal whiskies, in essence.
SGP:651 – 85 factors. |
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Glenlossie 19 yo 1997/2017 (50.9%, Douglas Laing, Outdated Explicit, refill hogshead, cask #DL 12017, 140 bottles)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: fully completely different, with extra vanilla, coconut, clementines and even pineapple and banana than within the youthful ones. A little bit of polish as nicely, the place does that come from? With water: acacia honey and muesli with a little bit of white chocolate and shortbread. That might make for a superb breakfast. Mouth (neat): polish and paraffin once more, then banana peel and citrus fruit skins. This one is admittedly intriguing. With water: it shifts extra in the direction of citrus fruits, zest… End: medium size, fairly mellow, with hints of ginger tonic. Feedback: the identical, it is trustworthy, loyal, and merchant-ready as we are saying.
SGP:551 – 85 factors. |
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We’re not going to have solely 85-pointers, are we?…
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Glenlossie 22 yo 1997/2019 (51.2%, Maltbarn, bourbon cask, 161 bottles)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: this one is completely different, maybe extra complicated, with a deal with waxes and mastic, then papayas, bananas, and winery peaches. A little bit of praline cream and pistachio nougat. All of this works very, very nicely and would not really want water, however nonetheless, now we have our procedures… With water: the contemporary barley comes again to the fore. Mouth (neat): papaya juice with chamomile and apricots, all coated in beeswax. Does that talk to you? With water: an ideal, sleek fruitiness, with out the slightest, nicely, for instance ‘tawdry’ facet. I hope you may forgive me. End: medium size, leaning extra in the direction of our native fruits, like apple for instance. Spanish oranges coated with honey within the aftertaste. Feedback: I imagine we have reached a brand new stage.
SGP:651 – 87 factors. |
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Glenlossie 23 yo 1992/2015 (51.7%, Sansibar, Samurai Collection for Spirits Store Choice, bourbon, 317 bottles)
It is good to style this teenager earlier than it reaches ten years from its bottling, is not it? Color: straw. Nostril: here is a Glenlossie with a extra lemony word, characterised by inexperienced apple, then evolving into barley sugar, tangerines and some hints of Coca-Cola. My deepest apologies. With water: plenty of paraffin and plaster. Mouth (neat): very fairly fruitiness but additionally sodas once more, Coca-Cola in addition to 7up and different delights supposed to carry our youth into line. Ginger tonic and a really faint style of paper. With water: very good citrus, ample zest, quinine… End: fairly lengthy, much more on quinine, with a little bit of candy pepper and even milder paprika. Feedback: a malt that is a bit extra ‘artwork home’, if you happen to catch my drift. I actually prefer it.
SGP:561 – 86 factors. |
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One other octave please… (by no means thought I might ever write that)…
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Glenlossie 19 yo 1992/2012 (51%, Feinkost Reiffercheid, Romantic Rhine Assortment, sherry octave, cask #892622, 69 bottles) 
Color: white wine. Nostril: no heavy sherry in any respect, quite flints, clay, sunflower oil, acacia honey, mirabelle plums, quince eau-de-vie, beeswax… I’ve to say I’m a bit of bit shocked right here. Twelve years later, think about! With water: one may say it is a bit of miracle. Chalk, vanilla, beeswax, yellow plums, apricots… Mouth (neat): frankly, I’d have guessed a Balvenie of an analogous age. Honey, well-withered quinces, mirabelles, a drop of olive oil… With water: edible flowers of all types and tangerine. End: medium size however with a really good quinine and yellow fruits. Beeswax once more within the aftertaste. Feedback: only a easy little octave, actually? Can we get a photograph of the cask? Significantly, a really, very fairly little Glenlossie, not very ‘sherry octave’ although, it should be stated.
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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There’s previous and there may be older…
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Glenlossie 16 yo 1970 (43%, Sestante, Italy, 75cl, +/-1986)
Color: full gold. Nostril: but once more some Balvenie-ness, that’s to say mirabelles, quinces and acacia honey (very roughly). There’s additionally previous Yquem, apricot, roasted hazelnuts, a little bit of steel polish, some chamomile and a few verbena, ‘a meadow in springtime’… Nicely that is all quite splendid and in the next league, undoubtedly. Two minutes later, a toasted facet emerges, heat praline, muffins contemporary from the oven… Mouth: herbs, mints, absinthe, chartreuse, a little bit of chalkiness, some sultanas, figs, varied honeys… It is the complexity that is quite astounding right here, glad we nonetheless had this one to style. Then it continues with honeys of all types, candy beers, caramels, fudges and toffees… End: not very lengthy however extra on Parma ham served with a little bit of honey. Italian buddies, please do not inform me that is sacrilege! Feedback: simply one other period.
SGP:451 – 89 factors. |
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Glenlossie-Glenlivet 24 yo 1993/2018 (54.4%, Cadenhead, warehouse tasting, hogshead) 
Color: gold. Nostril: roasted nuts and pinewood, pipe tobacco, then cassata, muesli and strawberry yoghurt. With water: some cardboard touches, candle wax, sesame oil… That is actually an uncommon Glenlossie. Good for fooling folks in a blind tasting. Mouth (neat): superb, sturdy, fairly coastal, however extraordinarily herbaceous. It is like a barely off-kilter Ben Nevis, to be trustworthy. With water: very amusing, with notes of Bénédictine and natural liqueurs from the previous Jap Bloc international locations. Used to adore all of them, from Gdansk to Dubrovnik and even additional south. End: medium size. Peach syrup, a little bit of orgeat. The query all the time stays, ‘so as to add water or to not add water?’ On this specific case, the latter would have been the suitable selection. Feedback: a really amusing and strange Glenlossie. Do they serve their greatest casks throughout their ‘warehouse tastings’?
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Glenlossie-Glenlivet 23 yo 1993/2017 (56.8%, Cadenhead, Single Cask, bourbon hogshead, 216 bottles)
Not too certain if this was for his or her one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary. Color: gold. Nostril: it is all quite about waxes. Some delicate woods, encaustic, previous books, apricots, mirabelles and quinces… With water: superior, some yellow chartreuse and a few bergamotte sweets (from Nancy in Lorraine, France). Mouth (neat): extraordinarily good, but easy, on the moisten-most closely honeyed nougat there may be. Honeycomb. With water: truthfully, this was a superb cask. I think some bees had invaded it and colonised it. End: quite lengthy, nonetheless splendidly honeyed. Feedback: both you want correct honey or you do not. In the event you do not, there’s nothing we may do for you.
SGP:651 – 89 factors. |
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I imagine the following one shall be our final Glenlossie till the yr, say 2028.
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Glenlossie 20 yo 1997/2017 (52.2%, Signatory Classic for Acla da Followers, hogshead, cask #6773, 309 bottles)
One other Swiss bottling. Color: gold. Nostril: as soon as once more a fairly ‘yellow one’, with mirabelles, quince and honeys. Fairly some vanilla too, that is very ‘bourbon’ certainly. With water: branches and stems, teas, chamomile, beeswax (bits)… Mouth (neat): wonderful, on cane-juice rum, oranges, bergamots once more, meadow honey and a bit of ginger/turmeric. With water: no additional adjustments. Overripe apples? End: identical, pear cake, mirabelle tarte, earl gray… Feedback: superior drop, typical 1st-grade filler, I’d say.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Very nicely, inside ten days we can have tasted 36 (thirty-six) Glenlossies. Not unhealthy, is it? We have not precisely touched the celebs, however we have by no means haunted the malt dungeons both. Anyway, it appears that evidently we are able to all the time depend on the independents…
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(Thanks Diego (RIP my buddy), Max, Tomislav and different buddies for all these Glenlossies)
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