Girvan 1965 46 Year Old Clan Denny

Girvan 47 Year Old 1964 Scott’s Selection

This single grain by Scott’s Selection is one of the samples I scored at the Festival for Indepdent Bottlers on May 9th. It matured for 47 years on a bourbon cask. Girvan is a very young distillery, built in 1964 by William Grants, to provide grain whisky for the Grant’s Family Reserve and other company blends. The nose is soft, grassy and smell...

Score 82/100

Girvan G7.5 - Smoky Werther's Original

Generally speaking, I love the fact that the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exists. It's beauty is in the simplicity of its products: single cask whiskies, non-coloured, non-chill-filtered, not diluted. But the tasting notes on the label (and the website) drive me nuts - their flowery, over-expressive style distract me from the basic elements of the...

Score 90/100

Girvan 18 Year Old 1989 Blackadder Raw Cask

Another golden oldie grain! Distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2008 by Blackadder, the bottler that adds some cask residue in its famous Raw Cask series. I must confess that I do not have a lot of experience with this grain. This is only the 6th that I taste so far. The nose is very promising on banana, coconut and peach from a tin. Vanilla and...

Score 86/100

Girvan 12 Year Old 2006 Cadenhead’s

Girvan is a relatively young distillery, founded in 1963 by the family William Grant & Sons, which we all know from Glenfiddich and Balvenie, but also from Kininvie and newcomer Ailsa Bay. Girvan was founded to produce the needed quantity of grain for the blends of the company: Grant’s. We’ll try a relatively young cask that was bottle by...

Score 83/100