Glen Garioch reviews

Difficult to get excited about, but this is a good malty highland, very soft on the palate. Easy drinking, no hard edges. Nose: Touches of peat and heather hidden in malty aromas. A slight whiff of smoke…

A pleasant if uninspiring young highland malt. I don't think this is obtainable any more but I still have half a litre to drink so this review is really only for my benefit. Nose: Vanilla malt and honey…

Through Facebook, twenty bloggers worldwide were chosen to try the soon-to-be-released, unique single malt from Glen Garioch. So when I received the e-mail confirmation a few days ago, I was quite happy…

Knowing that Glen Garioch used peated malt until 1993, I expect a bit of classic smokiness in this whisky. It is from one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, founded in 1797.The nose is very aromatic with…

Glen Garioch hardly uses sherry casks, so this oloroso sherry matured is a bit of an odd one out. It was released at the end of 2013 and will set you back around 65 EUR.The aromatic nose offers red…

Virgin Oak is in. We already tried (and very much liked) the Auchentoshan Virgin Oak from the same stables. This is the first Glen Garioch that matured on completely new American oak.The nose is very…

Another sample from that festival in Belgium, this time around a 23 Year Old Glen Garioch that was bottled by the famous Italian label Samaroli, released only very recently.The nose is very clean. Grain…

I got me this sample at a festival in Belgium and was flabbergasted with the color of the whisky. From a distance it looks a bit dirty and green water from a swamp. WFT? This, I gotta try, if only to…

Among the barley fields of Aberdeenshire lies Old Meldrum, a small town which John and Alexander Manson found ideal to built their distillery in, in 1797. Glen Garioch (say ‘glen geerie’) was purchased…

One of the most elegant, luxurious whisky rooms in Scotland has got to be the Tasting Room at the back of the Cadenhead's store in Campbeltown. Besides the myriad bottles lining the wall, there are also…