Scott_E
GlenDronach Peated Port Wood
Single Malt — Highland, Scotland
Reviewed
March 3, 2018 (edited March 28, 2018)
Peat, port all at 46%. Sounds like a great combination for a scotch. @LeeEvolved provided this sample and was eager to taste and take this all in.
An initial wave of funked caramel or butterscotch (not sure which) are immediate on the nose. That funk is (probably) attributed to the peat mixing with the sweeter nature of the spirit. Grape juice, straw, vinyl (new shower curtain vinyl), tangerines, milk chocolate.
Peat, earth, sweetness and spice, in that order, compose the palate. Blueberries, butterscotch come on late. That succinctly sums it up in flavors (for me). A youthful quality permeates throughout the entire palate.
A long ashy finish that’s punctuated with black pepper and drying oak.
This is a hard one to nail down. It’s not sure what it wants to be. It’s sort of somewhat bidimensional (smoke/peat and sweetness). It’s not terrible yet could be, wants to be, so much more. The potential is there, but then became an afterthought and forgotten and was then suddenly released. [85/100][Tasted: 3/3/18]
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Great descriptors. I still have my hopes up despite all the Luke warm reviews thus far
The last 2-3 drams is this bottle we’re dramatically better than the initial and sample pours. The oxidation balanced things out a lot better, sadly it seems like too little, too late. I still, sadly, declare this a dud. Great review, though. Cheers Scott!