Adelphi Glen Garioch 1993

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New Alberta exclusive for KWM, a 22 year old single cask of Glen Garioch from Adelphi, distilled in 1993 and bottled in 2015. Only 20 bottles have come in to the market. Matured in a First Fill Ex-Sherry Hogshead Cask, # 775, 285 total bottles. 

Andrew;s Tasting Note

Nose: rich old Oloroso sherry, old leather library chairs, dusty books and nutty tones with prunes and dark chocolate; rich Christmas cake and plum pudding; Big Turk and honey drizzled figs.

Palate: big Christmas cake, massive licorice and treacle sauce drizzled on plum pudding with bakers chocolate and chocolate covered espresso beans; leather and nutty, classic Oloroso sherry tones, it softens with each sip, mangoes, prunes and figs emerge; a faint tinge of smoke perhaps?

Finish: big, long, rich and coating with Demerara sugars, leather, tobacco and dark fruits; late clean smoke.

Comment: this is a big, heavily sherried Glen Garioch, a faint tinge of smoke? This is around the time the distillery closed its floor maltings!

Producer's Tasting Note

Nose: Old desks, cigar boxes and worn leather initially, and then the fruits begin to surface: mango, sticky date pudding, Turkish Delight are all there.

Palate: On the palate, plenty of figs and plums, gingery with sherbet and cocoa powder. It becomes quite tangy and then minty, leather and wood notes return with lingering caramac bitter coffee on the long finish.

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