Dreaming-of-Islay
Glendronach 1993 25 Year Hand-Filled Manager's Cask 400
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
June 18, 2018 (edited June 20, 2018)
This was the distillery exclusive manager's cask available when we visited in late May 2018. Distilled on Feb. 12, 1993, and bottled on December 8, 2017, this 24-something GlenDronach is hands down the best sherried whisky I've ever tasted. At its cask strength of 53.6%, it is so thick that it feels more like a milkshake at times than a whisky, and its flavors lean in that ice cream shop direction as well. Vanilla, chocolate brownie, malt, cherry, caramel, and cream all take a share of the limelight. Two of the members of our tour group hand-filled bottles of this one at the end, and it was a treat just to watch them. At 250£, it was out of reach for us for this trip, but this will become the ideal against which I judge all future sherried whiskies.
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