Davie-Warner
Glenlivet 12 Year Illicit Still
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
December 21, 2022 (edited February 17, 2024)
Just like the standard 12, but more so. Preferred as a 1 ½ oz pour to ½ oz cold spring water.
Overripe Pineapple
Bright honey
Light marzipan
Malty beer
A touch more salt
Chlorine (in a good way)
More intense in almost every dimension
Dear Glenlivet: remove the unnatural coloring, state it on the label, and sell this as the flagship 12 year bottling. The move will make the sanitized mass-appeal ‘Founder’s Reserve’ product finally make sense.
Dry glass: Banana bread and plain bar soap.
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