Glendronach 10 Years Old Cask 1743 Bottled For Usquebaugh Society 55.3% 2002

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Serge Valentin (80)

This one’s very interesting, since most current Glendronachs are being matured or re-racked or double-matured or finished (you name it) in sherry.

Colour: gold.

Nose: it’s rather grassy/oaky style, not as sweet, rounded and fat as I had expected. There is some vanilla for sure but also some heavy nutmeg, white pepper and cinnamon. Touches of gooseberries as well, then a little apricot and plum jam, but it remains globally dry. With water: sweeter, with the expected vanilla cream and coconut.

Mouth (neat): very fruity this time, creamy, and extremely bourbony. More and more pepper and ginger after that, the oak’s quite loud. No, very loud. With water: more new oak, a wee earthiness, green apples and plenty of cinnamon.

Finish: long, on rather green tannins, grass and, well, bourbon.

Comments: this one must have come from Glendronach’s sub-distillery in Kentucky ;-). It’s certainly very good, but there’s rather too much oak for me.

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