Glenlivet 40 Year Old 1970 Peerless Duncan Taylor

Glenlivet Founder's Reserve

On ice at Intercontinental Hotel, Madrid, sipping spring water along. It pours pale golden with green shades and oily streaks. Mild aromas of grain (mainly corn; barley and wheat too), some banana. Mouthfeel is powerful and dry. Taste is rather mild (which the nose foresaw) with umami and mild tannins. Boozy, warm finish in the surprisingly long...

Score 86/100

Glenlivet 12 Year Old Unblended bottled 1970s

Going back to Holland from a great holiday in Japan in '81. Some notes left: nose(of bottle!) full of vanilla and caramel, very nice. When taking first nip I tasted liquorice(drop in Dutch-one of my fav. candies!) and vanilla and caramel. The finish was rather long. Maybe too simple, but I loved the stuff. A very special, memorable holiday(and...

Score 70/100

Glenlivet 1991 Nadurra Triumph

I’ve always been the odd man out when it comes to Nadurras. I like them well enough, and I recognize the quality, but they’re not whiskies I get pumped about. I just don’t have the same visceral reaction to them that so many others do. Maybe this bottle will change that. It’s a limited edition bottling called Triumph, and instead of the usual 16...

Score 89/100

Glenlivet 36 Year Old 1975 Wilson & Morgan

Let us end this little line-up of Glenlivet with a 36 Year Old from 1975, bottled by the Italian company Wilson & Morgan, in their Barrel Selection series in 2010. It came from a first fill sherry cask, judging by the color. Wonderfully expressive nose on all kinds of dark fruits, but what makes him really special is a hint of struck match...

Score 88/100