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Quite powerful but also a bit unbalanced

cooked apple, pear, caramel, toffee, chocolate, tobacco, oak, leather, dried fruits, sweet basic sherry bomb, ok

Aroma Ginger, chocolate, sherry, nut The taste Creamy, sherry, spicy, raisins, chocolate, sparkling, orange notes Resonance Medium length, sherry, spicy, chocolate notes Tolerates water well

Iodized freshness, icing sugar, ethereal vanilla. Spicy Mirabelle plum, young leather, raisins. Citrus fruits give a beautiful breadth, between lemon and grapefruit. Egg yolk and nougat, hay, beautiful white fruits. In the mouth, it is balanced, always citrus, quite powerful spices, cumin, black pepper. Banana. Beautiful long and violent finish just the right amount, cat's tongue biscuits, peanut butter, soufflé. A few drops of lemon. Beaten eggs. English cream. This is slightly higher than the regular 100 Proof range, but not exceptional either. https://ilikesky2020.blogspot.com/2024/09/glenburgie-2008-exceptional-cask-100.html

It's not a great whisky, but it's not an average whisky. Perfect as a Daily Dram. Lots of fruitiness, sweetness and chocolate notes. Warming. Alcohol is completely undetectable.

Glenburgie is a Pernod Ricard distillery with a decent output, but this disappears in the blends, especially in Ballantines. It's nice that Signatory is bottling a 15-year-old bottling from the 1st fill Oloroso Cask in the Exceptional Casks series. The color is strong and dark - but not too dark. glen-efze.de

Ok - but I wouldn't buy it again - exchangeable and somehow I always have it...Glenburgie belongs in the bourbon barrel, of which there are fewer now than sherry

Powerful dram with an intriguing nose.

Trojan Horse Wholesaler Lacquered wood and stewed cherries made clear that this was a big cask-driven whisky with charred oak, banana’s foster, brown sugar, and an occasional waft of rich cream. Cream cheese frosting or Basque cheesecake made for a lovely companion to the thicker wood and fruit notes. Medium-bodied, the whisky was viscous and tannic with loads of wood and cask-driven sticky stewed fruits. Hints of coffee lingered behind caramelized brown sugar, dates, cherries, and lacquered wood. The whisky was drying and peppery toward the end. A few drops of water mellowed the peppery spirit and brought more chocolate out from the coffee with a touch of cream. The finish was medium to long with drying wood, pepper, and stewed fruits. Glenburgie is one of my favorite distilleries, so when I saw this relatively affordable product among Signatory Vintage’s new 100 Proof line, I was sorely tempted to buy it. Luckily, a bottle featured in a local tasting a month or so back, and I recently got around to tasting it again to see if my impression that evening, which was not a very positive one, was still apt. I have come around on this a little bit. It is still too wood and cask-driven for my taste, with heady tannins and peppery spirit; the wonderful Glenburgie malt was just about obliterated by the cask. While I do not rate it highly as a Glenburgie, I did think it made for a fine sherry bomb, and I doubt fans of the style would find this quite as woody as I did. A few drops of water helped bring additional balance to the spirit and wood without compromising the mouthfeel. Overall, not my vibe when it comes to Glenburgie— but decent for a sherry bomb.

tasted individually / 13.09.25.