Glenlivet 38 Year Old Berry Bros & Rudd

Glenlivet 1991 Nadurra Triumph

I’ve always been the odd man out when it comes to Nadurras. I like them well enough, and I recognize the quality, but they’re not whiskies I get pumped about. I just don’t have the same visceral reaction to them that so many others do. Maybe this bottle will change that. It’s a limited edition bottling called Triumph, and instead of the usual 16...

Score 89/100

Glenlivet 12 Year Old

. I am actually extremely new to scotch whisky single malt. My 1st scotch was a blend; The Dimple, Pinch. A scotch blend that I do not recommend. Sharp and quickly ending in taste. I then went with a reference from a friend to try Glenmorangie 10 yr which intrigued me. Curious. Hmmm. Ok so quickly shelfed that and picked up a Glenlivet 12 year....

Score 93/100

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 12 Year Old 2007 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

We know that Belgian bottler The Nectar selects excellent casks. This is a first fill sherry hogshead that entertained the Glenlivet spirit for 12 years, judging by the color. But at what ABV did this baby go into the cask, when after more than a decade this is bottled at a whopping 66.2%. Many a great sister cask – all of them great – have been...

Score 88/100