Archive For August 25, 2014

Start out with Sherry, Then Add Some Port, and Keep it Basically GlenDronach

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Start out with Sherry, Then Add Some Port, and Keep it Basically GlenDronach

This sweet, desert-y port gets its name from its tawny (reddish-brown) color, a hue you’re sure to recognize when you see a whisky aged in tawny port casks. I know there are many people who aren’t all that fond of port cask matured whisky, and it has definitely played second fiddle to sherry maturation over…

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Reviewing GlenDronach’s Most Non-Traditional Expression: The 14 Year Old Virgin Oak

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Reviewing GlenDronach’s Most Non-Traditional Expression: The 14 Year Old Virgin Oak

The first wood finishes appeared in the mid to late 1980s (Glenmorangie’s Sherry Wood finished Vintage 1963 was released in 1987) and only became a regular feature in the mid 1990s. In fact, the very same year Glenmorangie made the wood finishes part of its core expressions – 1996 – the stills at Glendronach went silent. After…

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Glendronach Single Cask 2002 Fresh PX Puncheon: Young, Sweet and Spirity

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Glendronach Single Cask 2002 Fresh PX Puncheon: Young, Sweet and Spirity

This week has been dedicated to the Glendronach distillery, reviewing the full core. We’ll continue the reviews of the special finishes over the weekend, taking a break today to review the Glendronach Single Cask 2002 Fresh PX Puncheon, which is a special Dutch edition bottled for De Wijnproevers. This bottle was distilled a mere 50 days after…

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Glendronach 21: A Sherry Bomb, Direct Fired Stills and a Bunch of Birds

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Glendronach 21: A Sherry Bomb, Direct Fired Stills and a Bunch of Birds

Today we complete our reviews of the Glendronach core range, the 12 Original, 15 Revival, 18 Allardice and the 21 Parliament. Close your eyes….OK, that was silly! If you close them, you can’t go on reading this post 🙂 Instead, imagine a thick sweet PX sherry with almost three times the alcohol. That’s the first…

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The GlenDronach 12 – Sherry/Rum, Spice and Everything Nice

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The GlenDronach 12 – Sherry/Rum, Spice and Everything Nice

Continuing the series of reviews on the GlenDronach core range we’ll have a wee dram of the 12 years old Original. The bottle I’m currently imbibing was bottled on June 26, 2013. If you took a look at the 15 Years Old “Revival” review I posted on Saturday, you know that any 12 year old…

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