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Glen Keith

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Glen Keith
Glen Keith Distillery
Station Road, Keith
Banffshire
AB55 3BU
+44 1542 783 044
Owner: Pernod-Ricard
Creation date 1958

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Glen Keith was the first distillery to be created in the 20th Century.
Seagram transformed this old mill into a distillery in 1958, in order to produce a triple distilled single malt. The Chivas brothers opened the distillery.
The triple distillation method has been used up to 1970, when the number of stills increased to five. A sixth still has been added in 1970.
Glen Keith was the first distillery to use gas to heat the stills, and was also the first one to computerize its production process. Since 1994, Glen Keith is part of the official collection "Malt selection"
All the distilleries of the "The Chivas and Glenlivet Group", belonging to Seagram have been taken over by Pernod Ricard on 19 december 2001.

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

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Glen Keith 10 years
Age
 10 years
Alcohol percentage
 43%
Particularity
 “Heritage Selection”
Bottler
 Official
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The colour is yellow (straw) with golden glints and the nose is fresh, mentholated with some herbal hints and yeast touches.
The palate is rather balanced and bitter, developing to malt. The finish is smooth with herbal notes.
An interesting malt, with a disapointing nose

(la Maison du Whisky)

This other essential part of the Chivas Blend (the first one being Strathisla) is a good whisky of the Speyside area . No regret to having purchased it (the price is very reasonable too), but it is not an exceptionnal whisky.
15/20
It is obvious at the second tasting that the first one was a little bit to severe. The nose is rather rich and fresh, and the palate reveals some complex and slightly acid aromas. The finish is rather short, but pleasant, developing to some kind of perfumed malt.
16/20
The nose is marked by some sweet but slightly spiced hints with some vanilla on the background. In the palate, the malt remains quite active, mixed with a kind of bitterness and sweet touches. The finish is short, and continues on with sweet notes before bitterness returns...
15/20
Nice floral nose, notes of heather with some ripe fruit hints. Another nice whisky for the the sweet side lovers...
The mouth is very smooth too. Ripe fruit and honey. Although it is not very complex, it this whisky has a nice presence in the palate.
The finish is long and warm, still on the same ripe fruit notes.
Apparently this bottles gets better with the time. It is now opened for a few years.... Amazing...
17/20
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Glen Keith: independent bottlings

Glen Keith
The Cross Hill
1971
Age
 35 ans
Alcohol percentage
 51.8%
Bottler
 Jack Wieber
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Glen Keith Jack Wieber 1971
If you have ever looked for a real sherry monster, you should give this one a try. Woah, what an incredible sherry nose. But there is much more. Nice complexity. Sherry mixed with dry fruit, plum, discrete wood, some coffee, lots of pleasure.
The first mouth is rather bitter, clearly marked by sherry too, before developing on coffee and woody notes and than back to sherry again. Lots of character. An absolute must have for sherry amateurs.
Would you believe it? The finish is also marked by sherry with nice discrete woody notes. It is lingering and extremely pleasant. Another fabulous whisky.
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Daily Dram
Keen Light
1978-2008
Age
 30 years
Alcohol percentage
 46%
Bottler
 Bresser&Timmer/The Nectar
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Glen Keith Keen Light
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Glen Keith: Samples

Glen Keith
The Old Train Line
1971-2005
Age
 33 ans
Alcohol percentage
 51.9%
Bottler
 Jack Wieber
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Glen Keith Jack Wieber
The nose is deeply marked by sherry, delightful and voluptuous. An impression of "Baba-au-Rhum", but with sherry. No aggressivity at all, no bitter woody hints as it could have been expected for a whisky of that age. The mouth is slightly bitter, nutty notes quickly covered by cereal hints and nice fruity notes too. Refined sherry, great palate! The finish is lingering and very pleasant, perfectly prolonging the mouth and the nose.
19/20
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Glen Keith
1969
Krügers Schloss whisky
Age
 36 years
Alcohol percentage
 48,1%
Bottler
 Krüger (Whisky Auction)
The nose is marked by honey and ripe yellow fruit smoothness.
The same smooth impression is present in the palate, despite a relative high percentage of alcohol. Very pleasant sensation, even if the complexity is not there...
The finish is lingering and warm, still marked by honey and fruit.
19/20
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Glen Keith
1990
Malts of Scotland
Cask# 13678
Age
 19 years
Alcohol percentge
 52,1%
Bottler
 Malts of Scotland
Cask
 Bourbon barrel
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Glen Keith 1990 MOS
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Speyside

Speyside Map

The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side.
The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon.
About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site.

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