Glen Grant 16 Year Old 1995 NC2 Duncan Taylor

Glen Grant The Major's Reserve

Thanks to a unique Facebook contest, my friends and I won a Glen Grant tasting early 2011. I took a sample of each whisky that was poured and will try them properly now. Let us start with the Major’s Reserve, Glen Grant’s entry level NAS-bottling, named after James Grant. He is of the second generation and passed away in 1931. He had the nickname...

Score 78/100

Glen Grant 23 Year Old 1985 WIN First Cask

Whisky Import Nederland has been bottling single casks at cask strength for a couple of years under their First Cask label. In that range, this Glen Grant 1985 was released, a 23 Year Old matured on bourbon casks. The driving forces behind WIN are Marcel Bol and Jan Kok, both Keepers of the Quaich, the highest honour in the whisky industry. The...

Score 91/100

Glen Grant 1992 Cellar Reserve

Glen Grants is a distillery I came to late in my drinking career, but have an increasing respect and admiration for through the purity of their spirit and lack of complication in maturation. This was bottled in 2008 so should be about 16 years old, although there is no information on the label concerning casks I’m assuming it’s been matured in...

Score 93/100

Glen Grant 25 Year Old bottled 1970s

This 25 Year Old Glen Grant (poured from a screwcapped 750ml bottle) was put to market a few decades ago by the oldest bottler in Scotland, Gordon & Macphail. I wonder if it can stand the test of comparison with the new versions. The nose is wonderfully fruity with banana peel at the front. Some more fruit and breakfast biscuits. Yes, this...

Score 84/100