Glenburgie 1963 Gordon & Macphail

Glenburgie 8 Year Old Gordon & Macphail

Glenburgie is not a dram that is top of mind, for it is hardly put out as a single malt by the owners. The create this malt especially for blending, with Ballantine’s as the main client. One of the few semi-official bottings is this 8 Year Old by Gordon & Macphail, which by now is getting hard to come by. This is textbook Speyside on the nose:...

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 1964

After the teens and tweens, we now get to the big boys. Gordon & Macphail bottled this Glenburgie from 1964 at the age of 46 years. Ah, now that is the better nose. Creamy and sweet on dark fruit, toasted oak, light hints of coffee. Slightly salty farmers butter. Again a hint of cooked vegetables, but also marzipan and hazelnuts. It even...

Score 88/100

Glenburgie 14 Year Old 1998 G&M for Maltclan

I was already quite impressed with the previous club bottling from the sympathetic whisky aficionados from Halle (Belgium), a Glenrothes 1998. For their second club bottling the guys and gals from Maltclan chose a 14 Year Old Glenburgie. It was distilled on 22nd July 1998 and filled in bottles in November 2012. It will be presented on the 27th...

Score 86/100