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Glenugie

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Glenugie
Glenugie distillery
Peterhead
Owner: Long John (Whitbread) (when demolished)
creation date 1830

The distillery was founded in 1830 and the production started in 1837.
In 1873, the distillery has been turned into a brewery, and it has been closed between 1925 and 1937.
The distillery has been reopened in 1937 by Seagar Evans & Co, before being bought by Long John International in 1970. Long John was absorbed by Whitbread in 1975. A few years later, Whitbread ceased its distillers activities, and the distillery has been dismantled in 1983..

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

 Glenugie: independent bottlers

Glenugie

Old Malt Cask, 20 years
Collection
 Old malt cask
Age
 20 years
Alcohol percentage
 50,0 %
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
Cask
 Refill Hogshead
Cask number
single cask DL 1320
Dates
 Distil: 03-1984 Bottling: 08-2004
Particularity
 Non chillfiltered
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 84/100
Glenugie Old Malt Cask
A very fresh nose, with some discrete hints of hey and a touch of citrus, giving is a slight acid character. This malt is rather complex, mixing malted or woody notes to fruity touches in the palate. The finis is relatively short, and leaves a woody impression in the palate.
84/100
At the second tasting, the nose still had the same freshness, mix of hay and malt with some orange touches. The palate was first rather dry and quite bitter with nice malty hints and a touch of green apple; The finish is nice, rather shor, woody on a background of dry peat. .
84/100
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Glenugie

Cask Strength Collection, 1977 - 30 years
Collection
 Cask strength Collection
Age
 30 years
Alcohol percentage
 46,3 %
Bottler
 Signatory
Cask
 5507
Cask number
single cask 5507
Dates
 Distil: 18/10/1977 Bottling: 10/12/2007
Bottle
 12 of 243 btls
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 79/100
Glenugie SV 1977 30 years
Colour: Straw
A fresh nose with notes of cut grass, a hint of bitterness, a few discreet notes of mint, spice and pepper announce a nice whisky. Let's hope that the mouth is as good as the nose.
After a first relatively acid impression, the papilla's hesitate between freshness and a certain bitterness, but overall it is significantly less interesting than the nose was. Nothing transcendent in any case ...
The finish is relatively short, and remains in the registry of fresh and slightly bitter impression, just like the mouth and nose.
79/100
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Glenugie samples

Glenugie

Cask Strength Collection, 1977 - 27 years
Collection
 Cask strength Collection
Age
 27 years
Alcohol percentage
 46,7 %
Bottler
 Signatory
Cask number
single cask 5506
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 84/100
The nose is very fresh with hints of hay, plum jam followed by nice malty notes. Quite a complex nose, announcing a very great pleasure.
The mouth is rather fresh too, at least at the beginning. Very soon a kind of metallic taste appears before developing on malty or even chocolate notes.
The finish is very original. It first tends to disappear but comes back to remain for long minutes. It contrasts with the nose as the freshness is replaced by warm malty notes.
84/100
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Glenugie: not in collection

Glenugie

Rarest if the Rare, 25 years
Collection
 Rarest of the Rare
Age
 25 years
Alcohol percentage
 51,5 %
Bottler
 Duncan Taylor
Cask
 Sherry
Cask number
single cask 5158
Dates
 Distil: 1981 Bottling: 2006
Particularity
 Non chillfiltered cask strength
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 Forum 88/100
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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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