Glen Elgin 1996 10 Year Old Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection

Glen Elgin 12 Year Old 2006 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

I recently hosted a tasting and instead of just handing out whisky, I was also handed a bag full of samples by one of the participant. Well, he’s invited to the next tasting for sure. One of those samples was this young Glen Elgin, recently bottled by The Nectar from Belgium. I was told this this was a refill sherry cask, but you would not be able...

Score 84/100

Glen Elgin 30 Year Old 1986 Signatory for Flander's Finest Cask Selection

Our Flemish friends of Flander's Finest Cask Selection had also discovered this 30 years old Glen Elgin, that started its hibernation on 11 September 1986. It was bottled on 10th May 2017 and thus had slept three full decades on a hogshead. It is surprisingly pale. Wonderful nose, a bit waxy and old school, on pineapple and Seville oranges. Some...

Score 86/100

Glen Elgin 25 Year Old Bladnoch Forum

Bladnoch, the recently revived Lowland distillery, profiles itself also as independent bottler by offering single casks at cask strength from a whole range of distilleries to her forum members. This is one of them, distilled on 1st November 1984 and bottled 12th March 2010. The whisky was created at the Glen Elgin distillery in Speyside. It's cask...

Score 78/100

Glen Elgin 1996 13yo Signatory UCF virgin oak barrel 2339

Glen Elgin’s Speyside distillery had quite a difficult start, with problems from the very start. It was the last distillery to be built in Speyside before the infamous Pattison Crash. After that episode it closed again several times: during WWII, in 1992 and 1995. Today, Glen Elgin is paret of Diageo’s ‘Elgin Group’, together with Linkwood,...

Score 84/100