Glen Elgin 12 Year Old Bottled 1970's

Glen Elgin 21 Year Old 1995 Un-Chillfiltered

I do not believe Signatory needs an introduction. Of Glen Elgin, Diageo’s work horse, they have bottled more than 50 casks, mostly from 1995 and 1996. This is a bottling of two hogsheads, cut to 46%. It’s a good thing independent bottlers look at Glen Elgin, for the official releases are few and far between. Sweet, soft and very fruity nose on...

Score 84/100

Glen Elgin 12 Year Old 2006 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

I recently hosted a tasting and instead of just handing out whisky, I was also handed a bag full of samples by one of the participant. Well, he’s invited to the next tasting for sure. One of those samples was this young Glen Elgin, recently bottled by The Nectar from Belgium. I was told this this was a refill sherry cask, but you would not be able...

Score 84/100

Glen Elgin 26yo (1984/2011) AD. Rattray

Description: distilled back in 1984 and matured for 26 years in a Bourbon hogshead(#2861). Nose: a gentle fresh lemony nose, some oak tannins in the form of sawdust are mixed in. I can also detect a faint whiff of orange blossom, but the leading aroma is that of honeyed peaches with a rosemary touch. Mouth: oily body, but grassy palate....

Score 86/100

Glen Elgin 1996 13yo Signatory UCF virgin oak barrel 2339

Glen Elgin’s Speyside distillery had quite a difficult start, with problems from the very start. It was the last distillery to be built in Speyside before the infamous Pattison Crash. After that episode it closed again several times: during WWII, in 1992 and 1995. Today, Glen Elgin is paret of Diageo’s ‘Elgin Group’, together with Linkwood,...

Score 84/100