Glenlivet 15 Year Old Smith's Bottled 1970s Stencil Bottle Gordon & Macphail

Glenlivet 26 Year Old 1972 Murray McDavid

Murry MacDavid, until recently part of Bruichladdich, but after the sale of the distillery to Rémy Cointreau now in the hands of Aceo, bottled this Glenlivet from 1972. It matured for 26 years on a refill sherry cask and has been in the bottle for over 15 years. This was another dram poured by Bert Bruyneel during one of his infamous Wee Dram...

Score 81/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

A very balanced nose, you know this is going to be a very good, safe, but not quite exceptional dram. Don't get me wrong, I love this expression, but in my limited experience, it doesn't quite touch 90. The nose has a distinct sweet and perfect woodiness which is missing from the younger 12 and 15 year olds. This is the ideal every-mans mid to...

Score 89/100

Glenlivet 19 Year Old 1996 The Ultimate Cask #69142

This Glenlivet is of a whole other caliber. While also from a first fill sherry cask, this was a butt that yielded almost 700 bottles at drinking strength and matured for almost two decades. Rather pale, actually. Not a lot of fruit on the nose, to be honest. It is sweet, sure, but rather on barley sugar, vanilla and caramel. After a few moments I...

Score 82/100

Glenlivet 25 Year Old XXV

I originally got my start writing about whisky talking about the important things. These things were not just tasting notes, or the history of the distillery or the history of the barrel. These things were the events surrounding the tasting of tasting of the whisky, who I was with, what was happening and even more important, what that wound up...

Score 96/100