Soba45
GlenAllachie 18 Year
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
May 1, 2020 (edited June 16, 2020)
Ah man such high hopes for Billy Walker's new endeavors. I've been (with 1 exception) disappointed so far and it's not just been me. We did a blind Glendronch 7 dram tasting and the mystery dram was one of his offerings the 12 year...it came last even after a shockingly bad Glendronach 26 year (which they again served up to me at another tasting but that's another story about the decline of that distillery...). Anyhow maybe he can turn things around as the youngest of his offerings the Cask Strength 10 ys Batch #3 was a great dram, better than Adelph's efforts with this distillery.
It's a bit like a star football coach who moves to another team and stuff never fires but you see glimpses of the future...usually you never get to realize the vision as they are out on their ear within a few years. Billy owns the place so he has longer to prove himself and cleanse the crap of the past.
Anyhow that's a long winded way of saying don't waste your money with this one. Tired casking, averagely construsted and zero soul, character or identity. I'm not even going to describe it as not worth the effort.
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@Soba45 I wouldn't spend money on older GlenAllachie's, none of these casks were filled with the intention to bottle them as single malt. However, I think the younger expressions (10yo CS, 12yo) are a pretty good value.
@cascode Yes each release is definitely proving that!
When Walker bought GlenDronach what he really bought was a huge stock of well-produced and well-warehoused old whisky, so he had that to play with for a few years. When he bought Glenallachie it came with smaller stocks of less impressive whisky. I don't believe Walker is anything like the whisky magician a lot of folks make him out to be - he's a good businessman.