The GlenDronach 12 Year Old

This one needs air and some time. The nose is very fruity but in my opinion the palate isn't as good. Still would buy another bottle for sure. Gonna dig deeper to glendronach range.

2nd August 2022

I just love Glendronach, what more can I say.

25th June 2022

Really tasty sherried malt. Well balanced, nice amount of sweetness and very smooth. I'm enjoying sipping this without any water.

25th June 2022

I bought this on the strength of the tasting notes and the reviews and, by jiminy, I wasn't disappointed. Lovely, smooth, subtle sherry and whisky flavours marry effortlessly together. So easy to drink neat, I've no idea what a drop of water might do to it. Definitely one to buy again.

23rd April 2022

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.

1st April 2022

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.

26th February 2022

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.

2nd February 2022

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.

9th August 2021

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.

9th July 2021

This is a honest basic sherry Whisky, which always was (and still is) in the front row of my whisky cabinet. There are slight variations of the bottlings, my last one of 2020 just needs some air.
Still recommended - especially for 31 Euros!

I stocked up after the recent owner (the US Brown-Forman Cooperation) seems to have decided to chill-filter and will probably dilute it down to 40% ABV. What a shame.

4* now.
Zero* for the future plans.

19th April 2021