Glen Spey 31yo 1977-2009 55.8% Malts of Scotland cask#3656
Matured in a bourbon hogshead for 31 years, I'm wondering what will be the result as I usually find this to be one of the whiskies that needs another cask to function well. Smells a bit restrained, but sweet and delicate, marshmallows, summer fruits and caramelized nuts.The taste is way too simple, sweet and extremely dry, dark grape seeds. This one needs water. Water brings less dryness, bananas, watermelon, stills weet, but a much gentler dram. The aftertaste is short an anonymous. After a while it develops some sourness, but that's all.
a slight diappointment, boring malt: 3.5
Glen Spey 12yo 1996-2008 58.3% Die Abfüllung (Derwhisky.de) btl. 86/100 cask# 712
A bourbon-matured CS bottling for www.derwhisky.de, a german forum for malt enthusiasts. The label states that you should not add ice or fizzy drinks to this with some fun illustations, "wasser erlaubt". This whisky is about as pale as it gets. Nice odors of coffee, barley, vanilla and spices, it needs a bit time to open up. It's very robust and fresh, immensely sweet and very spirity, I'll add some water straight away. It becomes a bit more pleasant, but still very sweet and dry. Like chewing malt syrup. With even more added water it just gets too plain for me. No real high here.
Far too sweet: 3
Glen Spey 21yo 55.4% James Macarthur's
Glen Spey is hard to find both as OB and IB, and therefore goes for insane prices on online auctions and ebay and so on. Very strong nose, sulphur, gasoline, smoked salmon, fantastic. very strong, burning the tongue, paint stripper, nail polish remover, not pleasant, needs water. With water it changes on the palate and becomes more sweet, like sweet dough, chirstmas bakery, but quickly turns into a strong haze of phenol, french mustard and acid.
Like a mix of malt and stroh, saved by the nose: 3
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