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GlenDronach
Single Malt
Scotland
If sherried single malt is very much your thing, then GlenDronach is a name you should get to know very well. The distillery resides in the Highlands, busily working away on some incredible expressions, with sherried malt sitting at the core of many of them. This particular dram, The GlenDronach 12 Year Old, is allowed to age in a combination of Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez casks from Spain, resulting in generous helpings of dried fruit and Christmas spice running through it.
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Rich cereals, struck match, raisin, cinnamon, caramelised sugar. Opens with some sweeter PX and lots of delicious raw ginger before becoming creamier with hazelnuts.
Fruits, peels, buttery. Pain au chocolat, a little marmalade on toast before becoming firmer and nuttier with spiced raisins.
Smoky toffee and nut brittle.
Very quick from order to pouring a dram - well done MoM. Still a favourite of mine and great value, despite CF/NCF situation. Hard to match this for a 12 year old, sherried malt from the highlands.
Its taken a lot of flack from the old boys club since new ownership. I think the stuff remains pretty damn good if not mindblowing. its also rather cheap compared to a lot of its rivals. I actually prefer the 12 to the 15 which I found underwhelming.
A near replacement for The Macallan as it used to be about two decades ago. If you search your nose and palate hard you can find some faint notes that aren't quite "right", but this is a very drinkable and genuine sherry-cask malt at a reasonable price, which is sadly a rarity these days. All I can say is, if you like this style of malt, then encourage your aunts, mother, mother-in-law and grannies to take up drinking (quality) sherry once again. Because the current 'other brands' are, literally, a pale imitation of how most Highland whisky used to be. The Glendronach thankfully isn't, and hopefully will stay that way for some time. RIP Macallan and Highland Park, unless you can pull your socks way, way back up.
It's still good but not a stand out 12. The Edradour 12 is a far superior malt though a fair bit pricier. You need to level up to the 15 18 and 21 for the true sherry bombs of Glendronach.
Brown-Forman is going more of the Diageo route with Glendronach. The scotch is a shell of its former self and master blender Rachel Barrie ain't no Billy Walker. It is a descent scotch and amongst the better entry level whiskies avialable. However it misses the depth of flavor from earlier editions, yet still close to my favorite entry level whiskies the only thing really consistent about this 12yo core range is that quality has been inconsistent but also gradually gone downhill. In its defense it is still bottled at 43% abv, non-chillfiltered and non-colored but nowhere near the quality and flavor Billy Walker and his team delivered. Just compare the depth of flavor, nose and natural color of an older bottling drawn from fresher sherry casks to these newer ones and you'll see how pale in color and flavor it has become due to the use of dull 5th refill sherry casks. Reminds me a bit of the lesser 12yo Glenfarlcas bottles that contained some type of sour curry off note due to the use of exhausted refill casks and often contaminated with sulphur. They seemed to have fixed it over there at "Farclas" mostly and I may even prefer a Glenfarclas 12 yo over a Glendronach 12 yo these days but it wasn't always that way. Truly independent distilleries who have mutual respect for their supporters and who don't try to sell you watered down artificially colored moonshine are getting rare folks. So I'll give Brown-Forman credit for not completely watering down Glendronach just yet and staying true to the 43%, ncf, uncolored standard of presentation that Billy Walker set. The deep old school Macallan sherry style influence that set them apart they lost that though with these duller 5th or something refill casks. Like I said Glenfarclas is the one people sleep on now.
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