Glengoyne 10 Year Old

Glengoyne 10 Year Old

I had a friend rant on about the 'Goyne' and thought I would try a bottle. I think its entertainment value is worth buying on its own. You get teasing from all the senses. The color is bright and a pleasent golden straw and noses a lot of candy, small toffee, and I feel loads of citrus... almost like a bit of Grand Marnier was splashed into the...

Score 82/100

Glengoyne 10 Year Old

A clean little malt, no peat and little smoke allows the malt to shine. The lack of peat as part of the malting/distilling at Glengoyne shows how good malt can be without this traditional Scottish source of fuel for drying malt. It also must reduce production costs a bit, or am I too cynical. No great complexities to unravel in this malt, but it's...

Score 85/100

Glengoyne 10 Year Old

This is the second of the three drams my wife and newborn daughter purchased for my first fathers day. The selling point of Glengoyne is that all their barley is malted using air from a natural fire, not a peat-fuelled fire. So no peat at all! The nose is delicate, full of malt, unsalted popcorn and a creamy nuttiness. Very easy to sniff. Hints of...

Score 85/100

Glengoyne 10 Year Old

I'm writing this review as i begin a week of being on-call at work (meaning i can't drink, so it may sound a bit longing and desperate! I have a tendancy to see a bottle of whisky with a name i havent tried, and upon gazing at the price i usually end up buying it. That was the case here with the Glengoyne 10 year old. Now this can lead to a bottle...

Score 79/100