Glenglassaugh instances 4

Glenglassaugh ‘Revival’ (46%, OB, -/+ 2020)
Matured in a mix of ex-red wine and first fill bourbon casks, then married and re-racked into contemporary sherry. There appears to be fairly a couple of batches on the market of this one however I am afraid I do not know precisely which one that is, besides to say ‘latest’. Color: gold. Nostril: youthful however quite wealthy and with a lot of breads, a couple of honey notes and touches of porridge, dried flowers and barely sappy touches from the wooden. General the ‘wooden’ elements do not feel too loud although, and there is not any apparent cloying from the wine part. Feels fairly contemporary and pure total. Mouth: quite punchy arrival, fairly a little bit of gingerbread, honey, spice cake, wooden spices and a bit extra affect from the wine elements comes by means of – issues like plum and damson jams. Good degree of weight and richness within the mouth. Getting fairly a little bit of rye bread spiciness and treacle too. End: medium, spicy, calmly sappy and with some extra grippy woody notes. Feedback: first rate, humble sipping whisky, and I feel an enchancment on earlier batches. However Glenglassaugh from extra easy wooden is way, rather more to my style I’d say.
SGP: 561 – 78 factors.

Glenglassaugh 10 yo 2009/2020 (54.7%, OB ‘Coastal Casks’, cask #1346, bourbon barrel, 250 bottles)
Color: pale straw. Nostril: beautiful! A wealth of ripe pears, cider apples, lighter notes of pineapple and fruit salad juices. Extraordinarily contemporary, ripe and vibrant. Various playful cereals too, soda bread, canvass, rolling tobacco, lemon pith. Feels each ‘wealthy’ and ‘gentle’ – which I actually get pleasure from. With water: goes extra in direction of cereals, breads, freshly made salty porridge, hessian and path combine. Mouth: classical and wonderful trendy bourbon matured whisky in that you’ve this instant mixture of silky and pure vanilla from the wooden, together with coconut and tinned unique fruits similar to pineapple and guava. Additionally greener orchard fruits which really feel a little bit crisper with a lightweight sense of acidity. With water: Poire William, calmly custardy, white pepper and thready traces of waxiness. Nice distillate I’d say. End: good size, calmly salty, some inexperienced herbs, heather flowers and wee touches of honey and cereal. Feedback: prime notch! Detailed, pleasurable and really ‘pure’ malt whisky. And certainly you do really feel a wee coastal ‘tang’ right here and there.
SGP: 651 – 87 factors.

Glenglassaugh 10 yo 2009/2020 (55.9%, OB ‘Uncommon Cask Launch’, cask #559, bourbon barrel, 191 bottles)
This one must be peated… Color: gentle gold. Nostril: there is definitely some peat at work right here, a stunning and delicate medicinal profile emerges first. Embrocations, bandages, antiseptic and issues like sheep wool oils, lemons in brine and salted liquorice. Elegant, advanced and well-balanced. With water: thicker smokiness, aniseed, sooty fireplaces, smoky wort and bonfire embers. Mouth: the peat is larger and thicker on arrival. Extra dense, turfy peat however nonetheless in any other case very medicinal and sharp with notes of mercurochrome and sheep wool oils. Impressions of previous hessian, charred rope and smoked olive oil. With water: extra smoked olive oil, salted peanuts, brine, seawater and natural cough medicines. Actually wonderful! End: lengthy, oily, peaty, tarry, salty and medicinal. Feedback: Ought to all of us be paying a little bit extra consideration to those new Glenglassaughs? High quality appears fairly wonderful in the event you ask me.
SGP: 465 – 88 factors.

Glenglassaugh 30 yo (42%, OB, 2020)
There’s some sherry affect on this one however what quantity is full time period vs secondary maturation I am undecided. Color: gold. Nostril: orange marmalade, dried guava and papaya, flapjack, heather honey and wee touches of mango, nectars and waxes. Emblematic ‘aged’ single malt whisky that brings collectively fruitiness, richness and wooden affect in a splendidly harmonic manner I feel. In time I discover some apricot and mineral oil too. Mouth: as soon as once more this impression of dried darkish and unique fruits, wooden spice, aromatic inexperienced and natural teas, and in addition darkish grained breads. Some beery tones as properly, feels very wealthy in texture regardless of the ABV. Acquainted notes of hessian, camphor and resinous honey qualities. Some quite pronounced nutty and milk chocolate flavours arrive in time too, which feels fairly sherry-derived. Properly natural with wormwood and verbena in time. End: medium in size, warming, extra dried fruits, mentholated and natural teas, supple waxes and wooden spice. Feedback: I feel earlier batches had been a bit extra luminous, however this stays extraordinarily stylish, strong mature malt whisky. I’d simply say the wooden begins to take over ever so barely within the end.
SGP: 561 – 89 factors.