Glen Keith 10 Year Old
Simple, sweet and unobtrusively pleasant
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Review by @jdcook
- Nose18
- Taste17
- Finish17
- Balance17
- Overall69
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- Brand: Glen Keith
- Type: Scotch
- Region: Speyside
- ABV: 43%
The nose is very light, sweet and floral. Simple and straightforward, but certainly pleasant.
The flavour starts light and sweet, like the nose, but then there is a warm wave of spiced-honey spirit. Again, a straightforward malt, but nicely pleasant.
The finish is longer than I remembered, but isn't terribly long, the floral notes come back as a complement to the honeyed spices.
This is a simple malt, but certainly worth it at the price it was on sale for. It's a good pre-dinner malt - light and unobtrusive, yet pleasantly warming.
Apparently this malt is becoming harder to find, which is a pity. While it is probably the lowest rated malt on my shelf, it is the first 'cheap' malt that I bought that didn't taste like paint thinner, and so it was the first malt that showed me you didn't need to pay large sums to get a decent daily dram. It gets an extra half star for that...
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I read in the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2010 that this distillery was mothballed in 2000 and that the 10 Year Old was officially released in 1994. It is indeed rather hard to find these days, but I was able to pick up a bottle today at 32 EUR (that's about 40 USD). Now... Should I open it, or save it?