Glenlivet 22 Year Old Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

Glenlivet 21 Year Old Archive (Wooden Case)

21 year old Glenlivet at 43%. Not overly expensive either. 150AUD duty free for a 21 year old whisky is pretty good value in my book. Cheaper than Chivas 18, Johnnie blue and Lagavulin Distillers edition * Nose: Dried banana, lemon, lime, honey caramel, light oak and tannins. With water really upped the complexity, there is more cereal malt in...

Score 85/100

Glenlivet 12 Year Old

Glenlivet’s expressions can be hit or miss, but I am a fan of their house style, which typically involves a pineapple note and some well-integrated baking spices. Interestingly this 12 year old sitting in front of me is perhaps THE biggest single malt in Pernod-Ricard’s portfolio. Glenlivet 12 often finds itself neck and neck with Glenfiddich 12...

Score 77/100

Glenlivet 19 Year Old 1996 The Ultimate Cask #69142

This Glenlivet is of a whole other caliber. While also from a first fill sherry cask, this was a butt that yielded almost 700 bottles at drinking strength and matured for almost two decades. Rather pale, actually. Not a lot of fruit on the nose, to be honest. It is sweet, sure, but rather on barley sugar, vanilla and caramel. After a few moments I...

Score 82/100

Glenlivet Nadurra Oloroso Batch OLO614

A few years ago Glenlivet released their 16 year old "Nadurra" (Gaelic for "natural"), a non-chill filtered cask strength whisky. This newer edition of the Nadurra range is NAS and matured exclusively in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks. This is batch OL0614, bottled in June 2014. Note that the water I use is the Uisge Source...

Score 75/100