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Glen Grant Distillery
Rothes,
Morayshire
AB38 7BS
t +44 1542 783 300

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Owner: Campari

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Creation date 1840

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	Glen-Grant
			Sample
O.B.	10 years	16
	Cask Strength Edition 14 years	17 1/4
Bladnoch	Aged 27 years	18
Douglas Laing	Provenance: 10 years, Summer distillation	17
Duncan Taylor	1969 (for Van Wees, Holland)		18
	Rare Auld Cask Strength 36 years	17
Gordon & MacPhail	1963		19
	1955	19
Scott's Selection	Scott's Selection 1973	18 3/4
The Vintage Malt Whisky company	Coopers Choice 1977	19
Murray McDavid	Murray McDavid Mission 1969	18 1/2
Jack Wieber	Prenzlow Portfolio Collection 1970		18
	The Cross Hill, 1971	18
The Ultimate Whisky Company	The ultimate single malt collection 1990		18
Hart Brothers	Hart Brothers 29 years		19
The Whisky Exchange	Single Malts of Scotland, 34 years.	19

 

 

Glen Grant 10 years
Age	10 years
Alcohol percentage	40%
Bottler	Official
Particularity	The indication "Pure Malt" on the Glen Grant bottlings does not refer to malts coming from several distilleries. It is in fact a single malt
Price/litre

 

The nose recalls apple hints, and the whole has a slightly acid character, which is far from unpleasant. A finish of average length, and the whole is a whisky with a good quality-price ratio.

A second tasting did not change anything to the first impression concerning this malt. A slightly malted after-taste following the slightly acid apple hints characterize the finish. A nice bottle, not really the best one...

A quite fruity nose, without complexity nor surprise. In the palate, a rather fresh whisky, with some fruit dominance too, but quite linear and leaving an impression of a clear lack of power. An average finish, slightly acid and without much depth.

A rather fresh nose, very frutiy but without complexity. Ripe apples with a touch of tangerine (or at least some sweet citrus fruit). In the palate, a certain lack at character, fruity notes, ripe apple. An impression of "watery alcohol" . A fruity finish, relatively long and a slight bitterness after a while.

 

 

 

Glen Grant "Chivas Brothers" Cask Strength Edition
Age	14 years
Alcohol percentage	55.3%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

 

  The nose is rather discrete. A malt domination is felt by the palate. A lack of complexity is also characteristic of this whisky. A short finish, and the whole results is a rather common whisky. I consider this bottling as a second rate whisky.

The conclusion of the second tasting was completely different. The nose is rather rich, with smoky hints and a strong domination of toasted barley. The taste is pleasant and the finish has an average length. The alcohol does not hinder the appreciation of this malt.

The third tasting was much like the second one. Still a rich nose, with a hint of smoke and some hints of citrus fruit. In the mouth, a mix of citrus and malted barley on a fruity background (pear spirit). A rather short finish where the memory of the fruit remains quite present.

The nose is lightly fruity, pear or apple, but nice spicy, peppery hints come over after a while. A rather complex sweetness. In the mouth, a nice attack, marked by both citrus fruits (orange and lemon) and a nutty taste which remains on the backgroune. A lingering and warm finish, between the fruit and discrete wood.

 

 

 

Glen Grant 1973 Scott's Selection
Age	26 years
Alcohol percentage	58,2
Particularity	Cask Strength
Bottler	Scott's Selection
Price/litre

 

 A real explosion of fragrances at the very first nosing... announces immediately an exceptional whisky. I found all the richness of a whisky matured in sherry casks, like Macallan. This cask strength is easier to taste after having added some water. An exceptional finis. A very great bottle. An expensive one as well...

A second tasting confirmed the first one. However, the richness of the fragrances and the taste, the delicacy of the finish, despite an evident sherry domination, the very great pleasure I had drinking this exceptional malt made me change my first quotation.

This remains a wonderful bottle. A very rich nose, mixing sherry, wood and smoke. In the palate, the sherry is rather present, but does not hide the other aromas, chocolate and tobacco a. o., which make this bottle a great bottle. A very long finish, with smoke, wood, chocolate and a lot of joy.

The nose expresses a rare complex intensity, with very nice hints of ripe fruits, citrus and a refined woody impression on the background. Pepper and spices are not missing neither. A very nice balance as far as the nose is concerned. In the palate, a mx of woody and fruity (apple and citrus) touches give an excellent impression of contrast between the wood bitterness and the fruit sweetness. A nearly perfect balance between contradictory aromas. A very nice finish, lingering and warm, leaving a memory of dry fruits.

 

Glen Grant 1969 Murray McDavid "Mission"
Age	33 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Murray McDavid
Price/litre

The nose is both fruity and spicy and reveals exotic fruits and apples on a quite woody background with some remote slightly acid hints. The nose announces a remarkable complexity. The palate is on the same level, and some beautiful woody hints appear first, before leaving some room to nice smooth fruity touches. A very great finish, very long and recalling essentially the nice woody and pleasantly bitter character of this exceptional bottle.

The nose reveals delicate woody notes and discrete fruity hints. A nice balance, with a touch of smoke behind. The mouth is dry, rather complex, with a mix of fruits and light hints of woody bitterness. The finish is long, marked by a slight bitterness too.

Glen Grant 10 years, Summer distillation Provenance
Age	10 years
Alcohol percentage	43
Bottler	Douglas Laing
Price/litre

A very fruity nose, ripe appel and pear, melon. An impression of great sweetness. In the mouth, nice contrasts between the sweetness announced by the nose and some slitghtly acid hints, green apple an cut grass. The finish is slightly behind the expectations with some acid touches and discrete woody, or at least a bit bitter hints.

A fruity nose, ripe apple, very smooth. In the palate, smoothess still dominates, mixing fruity and slightly woody notes. A great freshness too. The finish is interesting, but it's nothing to write home about...

Glen Grant Rare Auld Cask Strength 36 years 1970-2006, cask 818
Age	36 years
Alcohol percentage	58,2
Particularity	Cask Strength
Cask	Sherry
Bottler	Duncan Taylor
Price/litre

A very nice nose marked by sherry with woody hints. Very nice balance announcing an interesting complexity in a pleasant smoothness. This mouth is rather surprising, as it is not on the same palette as the nose was. Rather rough and first very bitter, with lots of woody notes, a touch of acidity and quite an alcohol impression. It developes slowly to balance, but the mouth is clearly less interesting than the nose. The finish is relatively long, with the same woody bitterness. This bottle deserves certainly a new chance after a few days, in the hope the aeration will fade the dominance of woody hints and present more pleasant aromas.

Glen Grant 1955
Age	50 years
Alcohol percentage	40
Bottler	Gordon & MacPhail
Price/litre

A nose slightly dominated by refined woody hints and some nice touches of sherry, together with floral and spicy hints. No aggressiveness at all, a very nice balance and a very pleasant complexity.
In the palate, a very fine and elegant woody bitterness seems to dominate nice sherry hints. After a while some chocolate notes and spices appear, giving the drinker a great pleasure.
The finish is exceptionally long and pleasant, with its touches of walnut a its sherry hints.

Glen Grant The Cross Hill 1971 bottled 2006
Age	no age statement
Alcohol percentage	53.6%
Particularity	Cask Strength
Bottler	Jack Wieber
Price/litre

A remarkably balanced nose. Sherry, plum, ripe fruits, nice complexity. All the fragrances mix harmoniously to make a general pleasant impression. Great smoothness without concession. The nose is close to perfection.
The mouth expresses the same complex smoothness, with it's sherry notes, hints of ripe fruit ant this nice light chocolate bitterness, and here also an amazing balance.
The finish is exceptionally long. After the first chocolate notes and the nice sherry memories, some woody bitter notes appear and remain for long minutes.
This is a marvellous whisky!

Glen Grant Coopers Choice 1977-2007
Age	30 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	The Vintage Malt Whisky Company
Price/litre

A remarkably balanced nose. Sherry, plum, ripe fruits, nice complexity. All the fragrances mix harmoniously to make a general pleasant impression. Great smoothness without concession. The nose is close to perfection.
The mouth expresses the same complex smoothness, with it's sherry notes, hints of ripe fruit ant this nice light chocolate bitterness, and here also an amazing balance.
The finish is exceptionally long. After the first chocolate notes and the nice sherry memories, some woody bitter notes appear and remain for long minutes.
This is a marvellous whisky!

A clearly sherry marked nose with plum and coffee hints. Quite an expressive nose.
In the palate, sherry is dominating again with a light touch of bitterness developing on coffee hints, drawn in the sherry. A very light touch of wood as well. A remarkable whole.
The finish is obviously sherryish. Lingering and pleasantly warm.
The impressions of the first tasting are more than confirmed.

Glen Grant The Single Malts of Scotland Vintage 1972
Age	34 ans
Alcohol percentage	54.9%
Bottler	The Whisky Exchange
Price/litre

The very first nose is pure sherry... A very nice fresh and fruity sherry. But not only sherry... A real fragrance explosion. This announces a very nice tasting. Plum, walnut, some vanilla, ripe pear, etc all jumbled up together.
The mouth confirms the nose impressions, with this mix of bitterness and acidity. Unripe walnuts, sherry, a touch of citrus fruit, then chocolate and sherry again. A touch of alcohol...
The finish is amazingly complex and lingering. Here also... sherry, chocolate and walnuts. Light bitterness and freshness.
Just happiness...!

Glen Grant Aged 27 years Bladnoch bottling
Age	27 years
Alcohol percentage	51,6%
Bottler	Bladnoch
Price/litre

An extremely nice nose, both floral and fruity. Ripe fruits (pear, red berries) and light hints of sherry. This nose is both very pleasantly perfumed and deliciously complex.
In the palate, the nice fruity character shares the attention with slightly woody notes which make the mouth rather dry, while keeping this nice complexity as announced by the nose.
The finish is pleasant, even though a little bit too dry and slightly woody. However, all nuances from the mouth are kept here, even if one could regret this woody dominance.
Anyway, another great Bladnoch bottling.

 

 

Glen Grant Hart Brothers 29 years old 1972
Age	29 years
Alcohol percentage	53,6%
Bottler	Hart Brothers
Price/litre

 

 A superb nose mixing sherry and cut grass. A touch of light bitterness and a discrete hint of smoke appear after a few seconds.
In the palate, first impression is a woody bitterness, a very nice feeling of deepness marrying nicely with the sherry notes which are clearly present.
The finish mixes amazingly the wood and the sherry, in a perfect balance.

 

Glen Grant 1963-2003
Age	40 years
Alcohol percentage	40%
Bottler	Gordon & MacPhail
Price/litre

A remarkable nose, where a perfect balance between sherry and wood announces a marvelous whisky. On the background, some notes of smoke and a touch of fruits, but this hints are clearly dominated by the couple sherry-oak. Despite this clear dominance, lots of subtlety and a marvelous complexity. The mouth would even have been better without dilution, but it remains a very good whisky. Just like during the nosing, the association oak-sherry dominates clearly the other aromas, but this whisky remains very subtle and complex. The finish is on the same palette as the mouth and the nose, oak and sherry, subtle other hints. I dare not imagine this bottle at cask strength. It would have been nearly perfect.

Glen Grant Duncan Taylor bottling for Van Wees, NL
Age	39 years
Alcohol percentage	48.4%
Bottler	Duncan Taylor
Price/litre

Such a spicy nose is rather unusual. Sherry hints, lots of pepper, some wood, a touch of liquorice and ripe fruit announcing a great whisky.
In the palate, the first impression is some clear acid bitterness, hints of yeast and wood developing slowly on better balance. The first sip is quite deceiving, but fortunately develops well.
The finish is very long, nicely balanced between the memories of the fruit and those of the wood. Nicer than the mouth was.
Nose and finish are excellent, palate is just good.

Glen Grant The Ultimate Single Malt 1990
Age	17 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Van Wees
Price/litre

A powerful and pleasant nose where dry fruit and discrete sherry mix with a touch of wood and some hints of polish.
The mouth is very pleasant as well and nicely complex even if it is less powerful than the nose was. A fruity impression (plum jam) and a quick development on chocolate notes and a (growing) touch of wood . A very nice bottle.
The finish prolongs perfectly the mouth and this impression of woody chocolate remains for minutes.
Another excellent quality-price ratio.

Glen Grant Prenzlow Porfolio collection 1970
Age	35 years
Alcohol percentage	55.1%
Bottler	Jack Wieber

A real sherry-monster at nosing, with a nice influence of wood and hints of mint, chocolate and a pleasant slight bitterness. In the palate, the mix of sherry with slightly woody notes gives this whisky a nice character, even if sherry is clearly dominating. Niec complexity, excellent whisky for sherry lovers. The finish is long and warm, prolonging exactly the mouth feeling, and with the same sherry domination

Glen Grant 1958-2008
Age	50 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Gordon & MacPhail

Comments by Henrik Johansson

Background: This Glen Grant, distilled 1958 and bottled 2008 by Gordon & MacPhail is a Single Cask (Sherry butt No. 3811) whisky which was sold exclusively to Sweden. It's limited to the 361 bottles which that particular cask yeilded.

Date of tasting: 17/8 2008
Apperance: Old oak, almost like brown sherry
Nose: A very round and mellow nose with extraordinary complexity. I expected a whisky this old to be very tired and overly oaky, but it suprises in many ways. Immediately detectable are some musty aromas, old wood, pencil ink and fresh spices, almost a whole spice rack in there. There are also some dried fruits, but less than in many younger sherry matured whiskies I've tasted in the past. Chocolate pralines and bitter almond are also present. One of the mos! t satisfying noses I've experienced ever.
Body: Medium
Palate: Huge palate, truly epic. If the nose was great, this is even better. There are of course lots of wood associated flavours in there, but again less than expected in such an ancient dram. It fills the mouth in a wonderful harmony of powerful flavours. It's not tired in any way. First there's some sweet liqorice, then ginger and dry oak, then spices, dried herbs and deep nutty flavours and chocolate pudding. The finish is very, very long and develops a slightly bitter tingle like very dark chocolate, but only hints of it. A magic dram with staggering complexity and smoothness, yet intensity of flavours. Truly an ace and much better than expected.
96/100

Glen Grant "standard, no age statement
Age	no age statement
Alcohol percentage	40%
Bottler	Official

Comment by Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Yellow gold
Nose: Malty, sweet and fresh with some unusual fruity elements. Over-ripe apples perhaps, some sort of jelly sweets, some surgical sprit behind that and a few chemical elements. Over all a lot more complex than I would have expected from the price tag and reputation of this whisky. Hints of fabric softener, crushed herbs and some incense. Water doesn't do much except stealing some intensity.
Body: On the lighter side.
Palate: Drier than the nose would suggest, a lot sharper and with none of the complexity. This is where the tender age shines through. It's not so much alcohol dominated as it shows lacks of everything. The start is dry and a little grassy, the swallow is sharp, the finish is short, dry and slightly herbal. Drinkable and fresh, no more, no less.
74/100