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| Hello, that is considered one of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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August 5, 2025
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4 Glen Grants, three aged 30 years and one previous 12
(a session that just about failed)
Remembering that Glen Grant was the star, earlier than different extra closely marketed manufacturers began muscling in available on the market. We’re speaking fifty years in the past, aren’t we. Right here, let me provide you with an instance as an example the purpose…
(Within the Nineteen Eighties, all manufacturers had been operating kind of the identical adverts, right here Glen Grant in Italy.)
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Glen Grant 12 yo (43°GL, OB for Armando Giovinetti, Italy, 75cl, +/-1970) 
In a sq. bottle. Color: gold. Nostril: unbelievable medley of stewed fruits, candied fruits, peat, ashes, coastal notes, previous toolbox, waxes and beeswax polish, all delivered with unfathomable mastery. There. Mouth: implausibly fruity smoke, with unimaginable fatness, waxes, camphor, a contact of light turpentine, mountains of candied fruits and sultanas… Solely the comparatively modest energy is perhaps thought-about a tiny flaw in spite of everything these years. This, at 100° proof! Or certainly 100° Homosexual-Lussac. End: sure, not tremendously lengthy, however splendid, with marrow dumpling broth and smokiness within the aftertaste. Feedback: one wonders why Giovinetti appeared to have moved on to Macallan a number of years later…
SGP:652 – 92 factors. |
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Proper, now three bottles aged round 30 years, merely organized so as of accelerating energy… Good luck to them, after the 12-year-old Giovinetti…
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Glen Grant 29 yo 1995/2024 (45.6%, Signatory Classic for Wu Dram Clan, bourbon barrel, cask #88198, 1996 bottles) 
Color: straw. Nostril: it is a basket of totally ripe pears and apples, accomplished with slightly barley syrup and acacia honey, with solely the faintest mentholated touches. A couple of winery peaches additionally saunter in after a couple of minutes. It’s easy, pinpoint, good. Mouth: the apples and custard glide over the pears on this delicate and curiously refreshing combine, which then unfolds into lime blossom, thyme honey, then a number of citrus notes and a barely mentholated pepper that grows more and more assertive. End: medium to brief in size, barely extra on the natural facet, which is sort of anticipated. Feedback: an previous whisky that’s contemporary and fruity, extra of a ‘drinker’ than a sipper, for those who see what I imply. We like it right here.
SGP:641 – 89 factors. |
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Glen Grant 30 yo 1994–1995/2025 (46.6%, Decadent Drinks, Whiskyland, Chapter 14, 360 bottles)
Color: straw. Nostril: I’m terribly sorry and should supply my deepest apologies to the gents at Decadent & Land, however that is, for all intents and functions, the identical whisky because the earlier one. In case you dig actually deep, you may discover a very barely extra unique observe, however that might be it. Mouth: maybe a contact extra stress, and a barely extra pronounced natural facet, although that could be all the way down to the additional 1% ABV. End: the identical story. Feedback: really sorry, however that is the type of downside that generally arises when our tasting lineups are slightly too, maybe overly, constant. In brief, one other high Glen Grant to gulp down with no additional justification than taking sheer pleasure.
SGP:641 – 89 factors. |
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Glen Grant 30 yo 1994/2024 (57.5%, Milroy’s sixtieth Anniversary, bourbon barrel, cask #10045)
The honourable bottlers remind us on the again label that Glen Grant was being supplied as an official single malt as early because the Nineteen Thirties. Color: straw. Nostril: zut alors, the identical phenomenon happens, this one simply appears slightly nearer to herbs and leafy greens, together with lemon peel, although which will stem from the considerably larger bottling energy. With water: maybe a chalkier contact. Mouth (neat): on the palate it feels tighter and extra nervous when at cask energy, slightly ‘greener’. With water: it’s virtually equivalent to the others at comparable energy (kind of). End: similar once more. Feedback: similar once more.
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The deciding issue: you shuffle your glasses at random, then strive to determine which is which as soon as they’ve all been lowered to the same energy. Right here, it’s just about mission unattainable, besides, after all, for the elegant 12-year-old Giovinetti.
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