Glengoyne 18 Year

Lots of fruits, milk chocolate, and loads of caramel. Creamy silky on the mouth. Nice buddy

Complex, smooth, had it with chocolate

HIJACK ALERT! My review is for an independent bottling of a Glengoyne 18 by First Edition. This is aged in a bourbon cask only--no sherry. This was distilled in 1996, bottled in 2014. Bottle 73 of 264. I have seen this in the past in the $2-300 range. I stumbled across it in a medium size shop for $90. They said they had gotten a "deal" from the distributor. Well, this is just fantastic at that price. It is not complex with seaside iodine or heavy peat, or sherry ripe fruit notes. It is straight forward delicious Scotch malt that tastes like sweet honey on every sip. This is 50.7 ABV, but tastes like 40. This is lovely and simple at the same time. I am going back to that shop tomorrow to purchase the remaining bottles if I am not too late.

This was really good, it's not at all sweet so I consider this a 'grown ups' scotch. Not as rounded off (bland) as an 18 usually is - it's got some bite. I'm enjoying this quite a bit on a Sunday night with my father in law and I will definitely have a refill. Also not so expensive for an 18 I think it was $89. Cheers!!