Glen Grant 1966 Gordon & Macphail

Glen Grant 23 Year Old 1985 WIN First Cask

Whisky Import Nederland has been bottling single casks at cask strength for a couple of years under their First Cask label. In that range, this Glen Grant 1985 was released, a 23 Year Old matured on bourbon casks. The driving forces behind WIN are Marcel Bol and Jan Kok, both Keepers of the Quaich, the highest honour in the whisky industry. The...

Score 91/100

Glen Grant 26 Year Old 1974 Scott's Selection

Glen Grant from 1974, already 14 years in the bottle. This is no official release, but from the famous bottler Scott’s Selection. It was bottled at cask strength. I got the sample at the most recent whisky festival in Ghent. The nose is sweet, but mostly offers earth. Ferns. Fallen leaves. Something of an autumn dram. Some white fruit and honey...

Score 78/100

Glen Grant 36 Year Old 1975 Archives

After their so called Inaugural Release, the boys at Whiskybase presented their Release, of which this 36 years old Glen Grant is part. Only 81 bottles of this golden nectar saw the light of day. For me, this is my 12th encounter with this distillery. As we have come to expect from Glen Grant, the nose is very fruity, almost exotic: orange,...

Score 88/100

Glen Grant SMWS 9.157 I drambled lonely as a cloud...

I have an active imagination. I often end up thinking about stupid fantasies. How would I fortify my house in the event of a zombie apocalypse? So I'm watching one of my favourite films John Carpenter's 'the Thing' and at the end Macready is sitting in the snow whilst the base burns swigging from a bottle of J&B. He's joined by Niles and they...

Score 73/100