Glenlivet Founder's Reserve

Tasty and smooth

Little bit more of a sting than the 12 or 14 year. Can taste the oak on the end. A little vanilla. Wife says it tastes like bubblegum. With water: I no longer taste bubblegum. Maybe pear? Huz says H2O smoothed it out, but I still felt a burn up my nose.

Nose: candied sugar, fruit, candied nearly overripe banana, apples, orchard fruits, citrus, mild vanilla, creamy smoothness to the aroma, quite pleasant and not overpowering. Taste: orchard fruity note, orange citrus, barrel spice, wood notes, perhaps a light sweet hay on the backend. If you take a long enough time with it, the finish will change towards the end of the dram with a more present ash smoke or cigar-like smoke quality that lingers for a moment and then fades away rather quickly. Decent scotch for the buck but there are likely others that are better at this price point.