Jose-Massu-Espinel
GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 8
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
November 1, 2020 (edited May 4, 2021)
Perfection. That is my review, thank you very much, we will meet on my next whisky review...
Ok, i think you deserve more analysis from me, a guy who loves Glendronach, and now is obsessed with this bottle. This whisky is just amazing. I now know there are other 7 batches, so, we can safely say the journey on great drams has just started.
Bottled at 61%abv, tawny natural color. Matured in Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso Sherry casks.
On the nose, a work of art. The most powerful Mocca Aroma, Coffee, Chocolate. Oranges, Orange Marmalade, dark chocolate. Dehydrated oranges, like turkish delight. After the first sip, you get maraschino cherries and more chocolate. Cough syrup, cotton candy, sugar syrup; humid notes also present, like an old library.
The palate is so good, no alcohol, just amazing flavors: orange syrup, milk chocolate, brown sugar, maple honey and peaches in syrup. Everything surrounded by a peppery note, absolutely incredible.
Aftertaste is also marvelous. Coffee, oranges and some sulphuric notes. There is this pepper note mix with dark chocolate. It also gave me hay, chocolate milk powder and a mild smoke.
Even the empty glass is an experience. It smells like an american breakfast restaurant, pancakes and maple. OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Overall, go buy this now. Great price, great whisky i have no doubt it will be in my top ten whiskies of this year, and i have give it a 100 over 100 score, because it is perfect. Don't even share it, keep it to yourself. Sláinte Mhath.
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That's amazing @jose-massau-espinel @Soba45 ! I'll need to look out for a CS Glendronach in the 13 year range!
@ContemplativeFox '.... some of the much older stuff...' that should have been :-)
@ContemplativeFox I did a tasting of the 2020 release of single cask bottlings and whilst the top from memory were the older ones two of the 13 yrs stood out as excellent and better than the much older stuff
@ContemplativeFox any Glendronach single cask over 13yo is as good as a 24yo. it wont be exactly as good, but still an amazing dram
That's fantastic to hear @Jose-Massu-Espinel because the 2X ones run like $500 and up.
@ContemplativeFox let me tell you something, the single barrels, younger than 2x are also amazing.
Sounds amazing! A lot like I've heard that the 2X year CS SiB offerings are.