ScotchingHard
Chivas Regal 12 Year
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
August 7, 2017 (edited April 4, 2022)
$8 for 1 oz at Silver Diner. My first and only experience with Chivas Regal was not a good one. I had it with a shrimp scampi, which it actually made taste worse. What in the world did they actually age for 12 years? The malt tastes 12 days old. Yes I get apples with a little honeysuckle. But I don't get aged whisky. What dominates after the apples is the cheapest of all ingredients: corn. Trash corn syrup makes this taste like it's already a mixed drink. This is the trashiest thing that's been aged 12 years since Lindsay Lohan. I liked Dewars White Label and maybe even JW Red better although I don't have any recent recollections from the latter. To be fare, no score, because the atmosphere was silver diner, and I got it to help me sleep after an 8 hour drive. I just don't see myself giving any Chivas Regal another chance.
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For what it's worth, the 18 to me seemed solid, inoffensively good, although no standout note. Sometimes with these big blends they can take a big step up from terrible to tolerable, or even good, at a seemingly arbitrary age point. I thought Dewar's White Label was so boring it was hard to drink, but enjoyed the 15 year Monarch version.