GlenDronach 2003/2016 13 years old
Oloroso Sherry Puncheon […]
GlenDronach Distilery is experiencing a renaissance and is famous for whisky aged in sherry casks. Something like Macallan a few decades ago. Today I have a single cask, distilled August 1, 2003, bottled in August 2016, so we have 13 years. Single malt matured in Oloroso Sherry Puncheon, cask No. 5480, a total of 687 bottles was created. Of course, natural color, unchillfiltered, cask strength 54.6% ABV. In fact, I could drink only single casks, thats a charm of natural presentation. This edition was bottled for Polish distributor of Glendronach M & P. Other malts described on the blog from this distillery include GlenDronach 2002, 10 years old for Whisky Live Tokyo 2013, GlenDronach 1994/2015 lub też GlenDronach 1994/2014 – all in natural presentation. [caption id=attachment_6631 align=alignnone width=1920] GlenDronach 2003/2016 13 years old Single Cask[/caption] [caption id=attachment_6632 align=alignnone width=1920] GlenDronach 2003/2016 13 years old Single Cask[/caption] [caption id=attachment_6633 align=alignnone width=1920] GlenDronach 2003/2016 13 years old Single Cask[/caption] What we have in the glass: C: deep, intense amber; N: at a very beginning lightly alcoholic, but then gets sweet, raisins, dates, figs, candied cherries, with a little time even sweeter, aroma of baking cakes, Christmas cake, filling in candy - Kukułka, after a few moments evaporates and becomes less intense, then there is still the interior of the old cabinets, old leather couch, at the end I have traces of vegetable broth and something soury, a drop of water smoothed a smell, cut edges, made it even sweeter with plums in chocolate, old, dusty leather couches, wood polish, wood lacquer; T: I have the power!, oily, even syrupy, it is spreading rapidly in the mouth, heats, gives the taste of a large number of plums, prunes, figs and dates, grapefruit, sherry, and then raisins, after that it calms down and leaves me with caramel,...
