Glenesk 31 Years Old Cooper's Choice Cask:4677 49.5% 1984

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Distillery Glenesk
Bottler Cooper's Choice
Serie X
Bottled for Limburg Whisky Fair 2016
Distilled date 12.1984
Bottling date 2016
Country Scotland
Region Eastern Highlands
Age 31
Cask Type Bourbon Cask
Cask Number 4677
Alcohol percentage 50
Volume 0,70
Condition In Original Container
Label Perfect
Stock 0

Professional reviews

Serge Valentin (89)

Bourbon instead of refill butt this time. Colour: white wine (after 31 years!) Nose: this one noses almost like a Lowlander, and a beautiful one. It’s all ripe apples, freshly mown lawn, barley, and candle wax, then mashed potatoes and ‘visiting a working distillery’. Mash tun, porridge… Mouth: fab natural maltiness. Always a thrill. Barley, sweet apples, muesli, light honey, Weetabix, kougelhopf (Kugelhopf if you’re German) and drops of agave syrup. There’s an elegance and a complexity that only time can bring to whisky (who said I’m waffling on?) Hints of homemade limoncello add some vivacity. Finish: medium, clean, zesty and waxy. So, quite wonderful. Comments: blimey, I had thought I had found my favourite Glen Esk ever just a few days ago, and there’s already a new one!

Words of Whisky (88)

whiskynotes:Nose: starting on a basket of discrete orchard fruits. Yellow apples, peaches and greengages. Hints of honey and barley sugar. Light vanilla, grasses and a touch of yellow flowers too. Maybe not spectacular, but nice enough, and there’s a very nice waxy, oily side which brings it close to the Clynelish profile. Mouth: more interesting. There’s still this combination of garden fruits (apples, white peach, a little melon) and interesting waxy / paraffin-like notes. Moves towards grassy / resinous notes and tobacco, even lightly peaty notes (or something similar), never loosing sweet citrusy undertones. Nice. Finish: medium long, slightly bittersweet, always with this Clynelish fruity-grassy touch.
All good, a kind of oldskool fruitiness. It’s mostly this Clynelish-esk je-ne-sais-quoi that I like in this Glenesk. Hands down the best Glenesk I’ve tried, ha!


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