Glenburgie 10 Year Old Gordon & Macphail

Glenburgie 10 Year Old 2008 Asta Morris AM106

The newest Glenburgie by Asta Morris – the sixth already – was finished by Bert on a Caroni rum cask. That rum, he had previously bottled himself under the Rasta Morris label. He cut it to 52%, enabling us to compare it to the 5th Glenburgie he had bottled a few months back from his Foursquare rum cask. I have put them head-to-head. At first, I...

Score 84/100

Glenburgie 9 Year Old 2003 Asta Morris

Asta Morris is best known for its BenRiach single cask bottlings, but Bert often finds other, less known whiskies that are suitable to bottle. Dailuaine, Blair Athol and Glenburgie come to mind. This is another one of those young single malts at cask strength, again a Glenburgie (so his second after the 1997, which I have not yet tried – hint,...

Score 88/100

Glenburgie 12 Year Old 2002 Gordon & Macphail Reserve for Global Wineries

Global Wineries is a Belgian company specialized in the import of wines, since 1 januari 2004. They just bottled this whisky to celebrate their first ten years. It is a Glenburgie from the Gordon & Macphail stables, that I encountered at the Whisky Festival for Independent Bottlers. The nose starts off closed and needs a lot of time to give up...

Score 85/100

Glenburgie 26 Year Old 1983 Bladnoch Forum

The Bladnoch Forum likes to bottle single casks. Let me put to head to head, cask 9804 and 9803. This one is 26 years old, bottled in 2010. So it is a sister cask of the previous one, that was allowed to matured a little longer. I am curious. On the nose, it is even lighter and fresher that its one year younger sibling. White fruit, icing sugar...

Score 86/100