Glenglassaugh Pedro Ximenez Sherry Wood Finish

Woah ho ho, Glenglassaugh I have wronged thee by placing you in the pile of crap. Now you aren't reaching to great heights but you have climbed to the top of the pile of crap. I'd call you the king of the crap pile but that would insinuate you weren't that good and you are. The PX bolts out of the gate. Very mild sulphurousnous balances well with the dark fruits and raisins. Now it is thin and the aftertaste not really there but not to shabby a dram.

Heath bar nose. Super sweet rolo candy palate. Very slight hint of spice finish.

Mash Tun Finish Flight. Absolutely fantastic 👍

Final dram tonight is Glenglassaugh Pedro Ximenez Sherry Wood Finish. Here's a dram that redefines expectations. Exploding with strawberry preserves, rum raisins, gingerbread cookies, orchard fruits, sponge cake, honey, and figs, it's fruity to be sure, but it's by no means a sherry bomb. Rather, the cracked white pepper and ginger notes typical of Glenglassaugh come out in full form, particularly in the palate, further enhanced by a touch of dark chocolate, raspberry jam, biscuits, plum, pears, and a fleeting bit of dememara sugar. There's clove, too, and a slight musk. On the finish, there's loads of those dark fruit notes: raisins, plums, figs, dates--and it turns the roof of your mouth into a canopy of flavors. There's cracked black pepper, but it has a back seat to the fruit medley. It does something few of the sherry cask finishes achieve: neither on the light, tangerine and fruitcake ting that from a quick trek in the cask that only flirts with what the sherry cask can offer, nor the picking up on heavier notes only with the loss of its pre-cask character. This somehow comes out of the cask an oddity: distinctively Glenglassaugh and yet distinctively a dense sherry contribution. Finish doesn't just last: it sings. Still after minutes have rolled by and the dark fruits are still hanging, giving much to ponder.