Glenlivet K Pure Malt 8 Year Old Hatch Mansfield Independent Bottling

Glenlivet 16 Year Old Nadurra

I have a faiblesse for cask strength whisky. I have had other Glenlivets and found them nice but perhaps lacking Power. The Nàdurra CS does not lack Power nor taste. Nose First whiff I'm being met by delicious green apples, citrus, oranges and mandarins. A real fruitbasket. Putting my nose to it again I begin to sense some vanilla notes...

Score 86/100

Glenlivet The Glenlivet Founder's Reserve

Nose: sweet. Vanilla and lemon buttercream icing. A tad thin and insubstantial but pleasant nonetheless. Taste: light-bodied on the tongue, starting off sweet but becoming bitter a little too fast. Something soapy going on here as well. Finish: bitter, medicinal. Balance: as you can see from the scores, this whisky gets less enjoyable as you go...

Score 66/100

Glenlivet 15 Year Old 1978 Gordon & Macphail CASK

This Glenlivet is also a 15 Year Old, but of a whole other calibre, because distilled in 1978. It was presented during one of Bert Bruyneel’s Wee Dram Master tastings. It is bottled by Gordon & Macphail under their CASK-banner, meaning it is bottled at cask strength, in this case no less than 58,6%. Oh, what is this? The nose is far from...

Score 81/100

Glenlivet 15 Year Old French Oak Finish

This is from a bottle from several years ago. I kept a small sample. I honestly can’t remember if this has changed much. I seem to remember perfume notes . . . but I’m not sure. It is one of those bottles I had during the extreme days of my “peat-madness.” I was totally uninterested in it. I still don’t think much of it. On this night I tasted it...

Score 74/100