Girvan 1989 22 Year Old Cask #37533 Berry Bros & Rudd

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

Girvan 33 Year Old 1979 Cadenhead Small Batch

The Girvan Distillery can be found in the Lowlands and is owned by William Grants & Sons, better known as the company behind Glenfiddich. The production is destined for the blends of the company, but independent bottlers often are able to put their hands on nicely matured casks, such as this very pale Girvan 1979, no less than 33 years old,...

Score 84/100

Girvan 35 Year Old 1979 Wilson & Morgan

Let me just repeat that the Girvan grain distillery is owned by William Grant & Sons, the family behind Glenfiddich, Balvenie & Kininvie. Did you know that the site in South Ayrshire was a weapons factory during WWII? Anyway, for their typical grain whiskey they use 90% wheat (that’s right, wheat!) and 10% malted barley to get fermentation...

Score 87/100

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