Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban 14 Year Old Port Finish

Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban

If you're scared of peat and want a Single Malt to sip neat that comes reasonably priced, this is the one for you! At $50 it is worth the investment over the standard Glenmorangie offering, but if you don't have to have a Scotch, look to Jameson's Black Barrel for a better priced replacement. Nose: fairly complex fruits that come through somewhat...

Score 80/100

Glenmorangie Astar

So when we had last left our intrepid heroes they had finally managed to get to the whisky bar Helvetica after months of being delayed due to sickness, public holidays, work conflicts and an emergency appendicitis. So far in our story our heroes (my wife, myself, my brother and sister in laws) have finally met up and the whiskies that have been...

Score 91/100

Glenmorangie 10 Year Old - Original

Now let's try the current bottling. In my last review, I said the current bottling no longer carried a 10 year old age statement - this is false, now that I'm looking at it it clearly does. I just opened this now. The colour is a medium gold, identical to the older bottling (though perhaps a little less oily in the glass). On the nose there is...

Score 89/100

Glenmorangie 10 Year Old - Original

Nose: Yeast rolls, tart apples and a lot of alcohol. Palate: Birch beer, herbal, faint notes of licorice. Water draws out some caramel sweetness but creates an odd sensation of a crystalline caramel shell with nothing inside. Finish: Short and slightly numbing Comments: I find it odd that Glenmorangie is so often mentioned in the same breath as...

Score 65/100