Soba45
Girvan 1990 25 Year Old Particular (Douglas Laing)
Single Grain — Lowlands, Scotland
Reviewed
April 22, 2018
Girvan was only built in 1963 as a grain distillery and interestingly it's also the home of Ailsa Bay distillery since 2007. I'm on a bit of a roll with grain spirits as as you dig deeper into the older independent labels the flavour profile is just really different to what I was expecting generally i.e. not a flat lifeless blend type thing. This is an interesting dram. Really get cherry coming through, mild cough syrup. Really weird as its like a mild Balcones or something. Definitely not what i was expecting. 3.5
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@cascode The brevity of my review has never stopped me being vocal haha :-). I've only started recording notes (off distiller) for the last year I think but already I'm getting to the point now where sometimes the moment takes me and sometimes it doesn't. It also depends the situation I'm in. If drinking with friends it doesn't usually get much past a brief mental score :-). Generally it has to be very good or bad to warrant much attention and effort these days...as you can see I get jaded pretty quickly..haha. My primary contribution going forward will be (hopefully) accurately adding entries to distiller rather than any review quality I think!
@Soba45 Slowly transcribing some - I probably won't do everything in my journals. Some are many years old and had only brief notes so I can't accurately recall them now.
@cascode It was a choice of work or post reviews so I took the lessor of the two evils and worked a shorter day :-). Pity its just mobile app only as I'm getting RSI! 40 something to go but I'll save them for another day. I see your starting to get through them yourself :-)
Nearly 300 reviews! Look at that kiwi FLY!
Ah well maybe this was an anomaly as the next Girvan I had really wasn't great!
I’ve got quite a few I could add as well, but I don’t want to add them until I’m ready to post up a review with it.
80 or 90 to go creation wise...slow work :-)
Okay, I moved my review.
@Telex @PBMichiganWolverine @LeeEvolved @Generously_Paul @Scott_E Alright you lot I've created that Girvan 10 year rum entry for you so you can transfer your reviews...i take payment in cold hard whiskey (or whisky) :-)
Aha I see you all had a bad rum finish looking at the reviews. That poor 27 year old has such bad reviews due to its younger sibling :-)
@PBMichiganWolverine - provided you supply them all and they are in excess of 35 years old I think I’m in.
Noooo thanks.
@Soba45 @LeeEvolved @Generously_Paul @Scott_E @Telex see...there’s hope for Girvan yet! What do you say that for SDT2, we do only Girvans? ☺️
Stop profiling grain malts, @Generously_Paul. Hahaha
Ugh, Girvan