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Glenlossie

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Glenlossie distillery
Glenlossie Distillery
Elgin
Morayshire
IV30 8FF
+44 1343 547 891
Owner: United Distillers & Vintners (Diageo)
Creation date 1876

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The Glenlossie distillery has been founded in 1876 by John Duff, in those days director of Glendronach and owner of an hotel in Lhanbryde. The distillery has been build with the help of two of his friends, Alexander Grigor Allen and H.M.S. MacKay.
John Duff remained owner of the distillery up to 1896, when Alexander Grigor Allen died. John Duff just founded Longmorn and was actively thinking about the creation of Benriach.
When John Duff left the distillery, H.M.S MacKay renamed it in "Glenlossie-Glenlivet", and built railway section to the station of Longmorn.
In 1919, the distillery has been bought by the D.C.L. (Distillers Company Ltd.).
It has been destroyed in a fire in 1929 and rebuild.
Like many other distilleries, the Glenlossie distillery has been closed during the two world wars, because of a lack of barley.
Glenlossie has been enlarged in 1962, and the number of stills went from 4 to 6.
Between 1968 and 1971, the Glenlossie build a distillery waste reprocessing plant to produce cattle food.
A new distillery has been build besides Glenlossie in 1971: Mannochmore.
Its single malt is rarely bottled (only 0,5% of the production is marketed as single malt), and is to find at independent bottlers or in the UDV official collection "Fauna & Flora".

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

 Independent bottlings: Glenlossie
 

Glenlossie

Provenance: 10 years, Autumn distillation
Collection
 Provenance
Age
 10 years
Alcohol percentage
 43,0 %
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
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 80/100
 
Before adding any water, a syrupy hay taste can occur. After having added just one drop op water, the whisky develops cut grass hints.
The finish is warm and spicy.  
A rather pleasant nose announces a rather surprising whisky - for a Speyside one. Clear hints of cut grass would recall a Lowland whisky.  Some spicy hints, and a great complexity crown the first impression in the palate. A long and spicy finish prolongs the happiness. Another excellent bottle due to a talented independent bottler.
79/100
The second tasting just confirmed the first one. Nothing to add..
79/100
The nose is sweet and reveals cut grass and ripe fruits (pear, peach?). In the palate, the hints of ripe fruit are rather present, on a spicy background. The finish is relatively long, pleasant, with notes of spices, honey and flowers.
79/100
Ripe fruit and cut grass make this nose a nice whole, fresh and perfumed.
In the palate, the same very pleasant fruity impression. Not really complex this whisky is highly drinkable, specially because of the contrast between the fruity smoothness and some discrete peppery notes.
A long and fresh finish.
84/100
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Glenlossie

Coopers Choice 1978
Collection
 Coopers Choice
Age
 22 years
Alcohol percentage
 43,0 %
Bottler
 The Vintage Malt Whisky company
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 79/100
Glenlossie Coopers choice 1978
The rather spicy (pepper) nose reveals some nice contrasted notes, fresh (cut grass) and woody and announces an interesting and complex whisky. A touch of sweet citrus fruit (tangerine) as well. The palate is first rather dry, with some strange mix of walnut and citrus and it developes slowly on clearer woody notes, and remains rather pungent. The finish is first slightly acid and developes on malted and chocolate notes.
79/100
At the second tasting, the nose remained fresh and spicy, and kept it nutty notes on a malty background. In the palate, the nicely woody character dominates pleasant citrus fruits hints, mixed with fruity hints, somewhere between ripe and green apple. The finish is long, fruity and slightly acid, with clear citrus hints (orange).
79/100
Quite a delicate nose with hazelnut hints and nice spicy notes The mouth prolongs nicely the nose, and some fine woody hints are present. The finish is rather short even if it is very pleasant, still on the same notes as the mouth and nose were.
79/100
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Glenlossie: Samples

Glenlossie

1975
Collection
 Grotesques Crocs
Age
 35 ans
Taux d'alcool
 52 %
Embouteilleur
 The Whisky Agency
Fût
 Bourbon Hogshead
Dates
 Distill: 1975 Embout: 2011
Bouteille
 212 btls
Particularité
 Brut de fût non filtré à froid
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liens et cote moyenne
 Forum89/100

Colour: Straw
The first nose is quite aggressive, sharp, marked by alcohol. Some aeration, however, sufficient to eliminate this unpleasant feeling. Then very discreetly fruity notes appear, mineral notes. Austere and well balanced whisky. Austerity is not a defect.
The mouth is very different from the nose. First, fresh and acid, it evolves into fruity notes that are rapidly replaced by metallic hints. The whole is a complex set of good taste. Not an exuberant whisky, not a approachable one. A strange contrast between the austere tastes and it's complexity. Whisky both highly complex and lacking in relief.
The finish is long and both warm and fresh. Again the contrast is striking. Extremely interesting but difficult to approach.
86/100
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Glenlossie Not in collection

Glenlossie

1975-2011 The Nectar
Collection
 The Whisky Agency & The Nectar
Age
 35 years
Alcohol percentage
 51,6 %
Bottler
 The Whisky Agency
Cask
 ex-bourbon
Dates
 Distil: 1975 Bottling: 2011
Bottle
 195 btls
Particularity
 Non chillfiltered cask strength
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 Forum 90/100
Glenlossie 75
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Glenlossie

10 years
Age
 10 years
Alcohol percentage
 46 %
Bottler
 Murray McDavid
Cask
 Bourbon
links & average quote
 70/100
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Speyside

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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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