Glengoyne 12 Year

Nose: Oil, salt, cinnamon, stewed apple, walnut, dusty malt Palate: leaves, apple, lightly salty, dark chocolate with chilli, orange peel Finish: tannic, woody, sultanas _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Last 16, Match 7: Glengoyne 12yo versus Glenfarclas 12yo The aroma of the Glengoyne dram was deeper but not necessarily better than the Glenfarclas 12. I’d give them a tie on that, but the Glengoyne slips behind on palate and finish mainly due to rolling echoes of tannic spice that I felt were a bit overpowering this evening. The ‘farclas manages to mute the tannic trumpet and deliver an old library elegance that wins the day. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The intolerable torment of a whiskyphile. I have too large a backlog of samples and miniatures to go through. Selecting a dram can be confusing – like Lloyd and Harry’s budgie I can barely keep my head together. So, I have picked sixteen scotch whiskies that are 12yrs or younger or NAS to battle it out in a Scotch Deathmatch. It’s my incentive to lighten the logjam. Follow along if you care (and really why should you?). Oh the drama! https://challonge.com/ScotchMadness

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