Glenlivet Archive 21 Year Single Malt Scotch Whisky (in wood)

Single Malt Scotch from Speyside, Scotland
WE 96-100
WB 95
43.0% ABV
Item # 30624

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'Top 50 Spirits 2009', Superb (96-100)/Highest Recommendation, Wine Enthusiast: "Opening bouquet offers sedate fragrances of dried flowers and malted barley; aeration stimulates marginally bigger aromas of dried yellow fruit (baked banana), toasty oak barrel and stillvigorous spirit. Palate entry is succulent, honeyed and luscious; midpalate tastes of dates, figs, S’mores, cocoa butter, nougat and dark fudge. Finishes oily, buttery, honey-sweet and focused. (Dec 2009)"

95.5 points Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible: "So soft, so teasing, you might have to go to a local university and pick up some kind of aroma detector to aid your nose: Turkish delight and distant banana lead the sweeter elements while lime chews and lemon-drizzled lychee leads the fruit. Even the drier vanilla tones are only half-hearted, as this entire scene is played out in whispers and innuendo. The delivery is so soft, you can hardly detect its landing: I could give a plethora of varying tones, some being barely audible to the taste buds. But, really, it is the understated effect which counts so importantly. It took me three hours to confirm a slight degree of sulphur. That is because I nosed and tasted alonside the XXV for comparison, and that, too, had creeping sulphur: it is not immediately detectable, as it is in relatively low amounts. A shame--this might have been one of the top three whiskies of the year... Possibly the most delicate whisky of this and many years: a kind o' Ballantine's 17, but in single malt form... ABV: 43%. (2016)"
'Top 50 Spirits 2009', Superb (96-100)/Highest Recommendation, Wine Enthusiast: "Opening bouquet offers sedate fragrances of dried flowers and malted barley; aeration stimulates marginally bigger aromas of dried yellow fruit (baked banana), toasty oak barrel and stillvigorous spirit. Palate entry is succulent, honeyed and luscious; midpalate tastes of dates, figs, S’mores, cocoa butter, nougat and dark fudge. Finishes oily, buttery, honey-sweet and focused. (Dec 2009)"

95.5 points Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible: "So soft, so teasing, you might have to go to a local university and pick up some kind of aroma detector to aid your nose: Turkish delight and distant banana lead the sweeter elements while lime chews and lemon-drizzled lychee leads the fruit. Even the drier vanilla tones are only half-hearted, as this entire scene is played out in whispers and innuendo. The delivery is so soft, you can hardly detect its landing: I could give a plethora of varying tones, some being barely audible to the taste buds. But, really, it is the understated effect which counts so importantly. It took me three hours to confirm a slight degree of sulphur. That is because I nosed and tasted alonside the XXV for comparison, and that, too, had creeping sulphur: it is not immediately detectable, as it is in relatively low amounts. A shame--this might have been one of the top three whiskies of the year... Possibly the most delicate whisky of this and many years: a kind o' Ballantine's 17, but in single malt form... ABV: 43%. (2016)"
Product SKU 30624
Producer Glenlivet
Country Scotland
Region Speyside
Size 750ml
Color Other
ABV 43.0%
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