After I wrote this evaluate, I seen that I hadn’t tried plenty of GlenDronach recently. The distillery appeared to have misplaced some momentum, providing the identical expressions as 15 years in the past.
However simply as I believed that, they introduced a brand new premiumized bottled design, albeit with the identical line-up. Their single casks largely go by unnoticed in my whisky sphere already, with excessive costs pushing them out of attain. If the core vary would go down the identical street, then they may find yourself in the identical drawer as Macallan. Funnily sufficient GlenDronach poached plenty of Macallan’s market share again then, and now they select to observe their path…
Anyway, GlenDronach has two journey retail expressions that I by no means tried. One is GlenDronach Forgue 10 12 months Outdated, matured in Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez casks. The opposite is Boynsmill 16 12 months Outdated which provides Port casks to the combination.
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GlenDronach Forgue 10 yo (43%, OB +/- 2024)
Nostril: a bit shy, however you get a touch of raisins and darkish berries, in addition to some walnuts and roasted chestnuts. Then minty notes and a grassy / malty facet that makes it a tad harsher. Black tea, hints of orange peels and a dusty plywood notice. Much less sherry than the tin makes you consider.
Mouth: an identical trace of youngish wooden, together with black pepper, nutmeg and ginger. Baking spice is outstanding, adopted by milk chocolate, butterscotch and raisins. Then burnt cake and bitter nuts come ahead. Some orange notes too, however sherried flavours appear to fade rapidly, making house for some bitterness.
End: medium, on pepper, malty notes, nutmeg and orange.
Pretty common. Not essentially a foul whisky, however disappointing in the event you’ve skilled a number of the GlenDronach single casks for example. It appears I’ve by no means formally reviewed the 12 12 months Outdated, however it left a greater impression in my reminiscence than this Forgue. Theoretically solely in journey retail, but in addition out there from different retailers like The Whisky Alternate. I discovered a pattern at Whiskysite.nl.
