The First Edition Glen Garioch 1990

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This First Editions bottling of Glen Garioch has been bottled from a single Refill Hogshead cask at 56.8%, after 24 years in the barrel. Glen Garioch, located in the Eastern Highland town of Oldmeldrum, was built in 1797, and is one Scotland's oldest surviving distilleries. The distillery had its own malting floor until 1995, and prior to that date used varying levels of peat in their malt. Pre-1995 Glen Gariochs often have very inconsistent styles as a result, but are all the more interesting for it. Only 30 bottles have come to Calgary, exclusively to KWM.... not many left!

Andrew's Tasting Note

Nose: honey, salted caramel, crisp smoke and potpourri; candied orange slices, midrib melons and almond paste filled croissants.

Palate: thick malt, big honey and over salted caramel ice cream; black spices and firms smoke over more candied orange, midori melon liqueur; leather, tobacco and Christmas cake emerge with some bakers chocolate... so a sherry hogshead?

Finish: smooth, long, coating and rich with tendrils of sherry and smoke snaking around each other to the finale... which is a long ways off!

Comment: the sherry and peat compliment each other beautifully in this dram; it is firm and rich, but elegant! 

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