A brief intro immediately: Kirsch Import simply launched a Glen Grant 2009. It’s a choice from Gordon & MacPhail‘s shares. Now G&M have completely different kinds of Glen Grant of their portfolio, so we’re curious what this refill sherry cask is like.
Glen Grant 14 yo 2009 (56,9%, Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Alternative for Kirsch Import 2024, refill sherry hogshead #900927, 269 btl.)
Nostril: begins on toffee, walnut cake and milk chocolate, together with vanilla ice cream and gentle wooden. Then pepper and lightweight ginger. Raisin sweetness slowly strikes in direction of stewed orchard fruits and baked apple. It exhibits a few of the innate fruitiness of the spirit, however it’s dominated by a really autumnal model of sherry.
Mouth: much less my kind now. A barely bloated profile, specializing in roasted walnuts and hazelnuts, extra milk chocolate and caramel. Delicate saltiness and clove. Some blackcurrant too, though it’s hardly fruity at this level. As an alternative there’s a giant meatiness to it and a delicate tannic edge. Later additionally cocoa powder and a few rye spice within the distance.
End: lengthy and nutty, with drying leafy notes, salt, mocha, burnt caramel and oak spice.
I didn’t anticipate this very autumnal and even barely soiled model of sherry in Glen Grant. General a bit too meaty for my style. Now out there in several German retailers, test Kirsch Import for extra data.
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