Glenlivet 25 Year Old Silver Jubilee

Glenlivet Nadurra Peated Whisky Cask Finish

This is the last dram of a bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra (Gaelic for "natural"), this one finished in a cask that held a heavily peated scotch (probably from Islay). Like the other bottlings in the Nadurra range, it is cask strength, non-coloured and non-chill-filtered. The colour is a light, yellowish amber. Citrusy on the nose, with...

Score 82/100

Glenlivet Cipher

The Glenlivet Cipher is a great example of a whisky whose marketing overwhelms the actual liquid itself. The packaging is a black box (with some hard to see black-on-black lettering, kind of like a word search puzzle), within which is an opaque black bottle (with some similar lettering). If you look hard enough for them, you'll find typical...

Score 90/100

Glenlivet 18 Year Old

I’ve tried this on a number of occasions. Recently, I gave a tasting to a couple that are friends of my wife. The husband likes Glenlivet and he responded with popping open a bottle of this. I had already had a few drams by that point . . . and all I got from that bottle was, “Well, this is pleasant enough.” So a short time later I cracked open my...

Score 78/100

Glenlivet 16 Year Old Nadurra

This has been on my to-do list for a while. I’ve recently rediscovered my bottle of ‘livet 18 that’s been sitting relatively untouched at the back of my cabinet for the better part of a year. It’s a lovely dram, and it’s reminded me that Glenlivet is indeed capable of making some fine whisky. Here we’ve got the 16 year old cask strength Nadurra....

Score 89/100