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.
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A fine dram this really is a fantastic whisky and you wouldn't go wrong with a bottle of this. I personally prefer the 21 however for the price this really delivers.
First dram from the bottle is a cherry bomb. Almost too simple. Give it time as you finish the bottle and more complex flavors should reveal themselves. I wasn't sure if I'd like it at first but as I took a few months to finish the bottle I became a fan.
When I first opened it I was Bombed with stewed fruits. Very sherried. However I let the bottle sit for a few months before I finished it. I definitely enjoyed it more near the end. Maybe my palate adjusted but I was able to detect more complex flavors. Definitely going to try another bottle.
The taste of this whisky has changed. Remember that Glendronach mothballed its distillery from 1996-2002. The post-2014 bottlings truly are 12 year old whiskies. If you bought this Glendronach 12 bottled in 2013, you were getting a 17 year old whisky as the whisky was distilled and casked in 1996. Those who enjoyed the amazing Glendronach 12 from 2010-2013 were getting a whisky older than the stated age. That is no longer the case. It is still a great 12 year old whisky. It's just not the value that it once was.
To the comment below mine- it could be the oxidation process inside an open bottle. Either way, this is marvelous bang for your buck if you favor a whisky that tastes not unlike a good Kompot.
