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Much better than the 18 year Allardice  more in common with the 15 Revival. Really good stuff

It stands out qualitatively clearly from the younger bottlings of the distillery. Good sherry / oak ratio.

Gorgeous nose, fruity, soft, but very intense. I think that's the most sherry whisky I've ever had. Powerful start. Who likes Sherry bombs, is right here. Does something spicy, ham ?, vanilla, red fruits over time. Works old, mature, round. Gorgeous!

Nice complex sherry bomb.

2020 Rating

N- Elegant and finese barely reflect her sublime quality. Refinely rich olorosso sherry waving on and on, creamy biscuity add substance and weight with a cuts of acidic lemonade. P- Dry mouthfeel, delicious sherry notes comes with full spices sensation. Chocolate and warm pudding join the troop. Well balance and broad shoulder. F- Lasting with winery chewy note and nutmeg linger on. Bagpipe horning in the ears... — at Whisky Live Singapore.

I wrote the notes quickly between the doors and they don't really do the whisky justice, a delicious drop in any case.

Nose: red fruit of very ripe fruit with orange zest from the oak table, spicy, strong resinous oak acidity with tree saftarom, bergamot, apricot, bitter almond, more complex citrus notes with a slight sharpness in the smell of grapefruit peels - but no alcoholic sharpness, an old leather jacket in a dusty Dandruff - in your pockets - Rotten tobacco with a hint of vanilla Taste: velvety soft sweet syrupy texture, strawberry cherry jam brings along with acidity, orange juice with a lot of grated ginger - brings more acidity as an antipode to sweetness, icing with lemon juice, sawdust, pine resin, some mint and a lot of spicy oak on the tongue, warming and Cooling at the same time, orange marmalade with a lot of peel - slightly bitter but in the aromatic delicious way, with each sip it becomes spicier - tobacco - cinnamon - leather tingles on the tongue, the sweetness is increasingly displaced by berry - fruity acidity and they commute in the Balance, the finish is long - rather determined by wood and spice notes than by the fruit and ends dry, at the end remains a slightly resinous aromatic mint note on the tongue Conclusion: one of my favorites - balanced, complex, ripe, yummy, undyed, unfiltered, high percentage - even for twice the price I can not find anything better - rather something else - only the golden packaging, which is not, there is the 12er more beautiful

Really, really good. Thick, rich and meaty. You'd be hard pressed to find a better sherried whisky for this price.

It's either the heavy sherry influence or the fact that it has been produced with significantly older stock for some time: this sure seems older than its - already considerable - stated age. 21 going on 25, at least as far as my bottle (ca. 2016) is concerned. What we have here is a heavy, massive, sweet-and-dry sherry-soaked, oily and woody nose. Chocolate-covered, rum-soaked raisins; bacon-wrapped, roasted figs; aged aceto balsamico; blackberry and/or plum jam; mulled wine, speculoos and christmas spices; assorted nuts. In terms of sherry maturation, this is definitely more on the fruity-and-juicy than on the earthy-and-leathery side. Having said that, there is some leather to be found, along with other aromas that exude the aura of age: musty cellar, dusty attic, shopworn library books... Zero alcohol on the nose despite the elevated ABV, but it's also not exactly easy to locate the distillery character behind this wall of deep and dark sherry aromas. So this is the one quibble I have with this otherwise pretty perfect nose - the PX is perhaps just a tiny bit too prominent. But enough grousing; on to the palate! Without water, there's an immediately leathery, nutty and (given the unmistakable PX influence on the nose:) surprisingly dry attack, with an incredibly rich and mouth-coating texture. Then the juicy sweetness and the robust Glendronach Highland character hit home. There's a sense of peppery heat, but it's nowhere near as pronounced as in the 18-year-old Allardice. The burn (if you can even call it that) here is much more restrained, and, given the sticky, syrupy aspect of the palate, even welcome. Finally, some bitter notes (black liquorice, black coffee, dark chocolate) join in, along with a faint mintiness. Intense and thick throughout, without ever losing steam. Finishes strong and substantial, with a warming afterglow, then continues to stick to the insides of the mouth for a good long while, with the typical Oloroso notes of liquorice and leather as the last notes to fade. Clearly a high-class sherry monster, with the superb Glendronach distillate struggling, but not outright failing to assert itself. What I found most surprising about this one was that the wood was most discernible on the nose. On the palate and in the finish, it almost slipped my attention - either because the sherry overpowered it or because it merged with the sherry so harmoniously (depends on your perspective, I guess). So yeah: a bit brutal and crass, but also just simply a blast. An event of a whisky. P.S. Water brings out (even) more umami aromas, adds an intriguing floral element, sweetens the attack, eliminates any burn and reinforces the wood in the finish. Obviously I recommend adding some.

Simply the round sherry standard!

Nose-89; Taste-89; Finish-89.

A fine sherry bob in front of the Lord.

On the nose, characteristic sherry, a little smoky, spicy, old wood! On the palate, we attack the rather strong spices, cinnamon, vanilla aged, it has depth!, Then mixed fruit, macerated on candied orange, old wood and leather associated, a roasted chocolate side! In the final, a rather complex sensation, on sherry, spices, dry wood, sweet-honeyed side! A very good dram with a singular and long length!

Quite so without corners, he is not at all, which has quite bite. Basically, he looks very elegant and mature. The barrel is absolutely in the foreground here, so it is interchangeable with many other sherry bombs, but the quality of the barrels is outstanding here. Nevertheless, he allows sufficient conclusions about his origins. He should be given time, and he benefits immensely from the heat. A batch from 2014 was tasted, but unfortunately not known.

A very good sherry whisky which is suprisingly worse than the GD 15 Revival! Nevertheless it can be fully recommended!

This is the best sherry cask finished whisky I tried so far.

beautiful, intense, harmonious standard bottling

Slightly disappointing aftertaste. It's unfortunate that it is so strangely formed in this whisky. I was very pleased with the aroma, where I literally felt the past, which was expressed in the traces left by the vital activity of yeast. 23 23 21 21

Great standard bottling with a complex nose, full body and great drinking strength. Let's hope that the proportion of sherry casks won't decrease steadily in the future.

A true sherry bomb! This Parliament offers everything I expect from a sherry bomb. Dark fruits, spicy wood flavors, leather, tobacco, chocolate and coffee. A great whisky, I like it very much!