Glenburgie 26yo 1983-2010 53.7% Bladnoch Forum cask#9801
It's been awhile since last I tried a Glenburgie. I believe it was Glenburgie that produced the Glencraig, a malt that I have enjoyed a lot at earlier occasions, well, those were the days! Golden colour, Smells pretty much alcohol, immediately a huge punch. Need water I guess, lets try without first. The taste is at first some creamy caramel before the spirity notes hits me again. With water it becomes a bit rounder and gentler, but the sweet initial caramel flavour is gone and left is some slightly bitter grassiness.
It'll be awhile until I buy a bottle of Gleburgie: 2.5
Glenburgie 26yo 1983-2010 48.5% The Daily Dram
I have, at least up until this day, prefered the Glencraig malt made at this distillery over Glenburgie. But since they stopped making the Lomond spirit, there's got to be a reason, let's see if I can find it here. The nose is very fresh, autumn air, fresh leaves and some mineral notes. The taste is pretty dry and kind of stiff, so to speak. Something a bit edgy and overpowering. Strong malty notes. With some water it gets a strange sour/salty flavour, oat meal, beef jerky and bitterness. Theres some sourness like unripe apples that's teasing my tastebuds, but it vanishes very quickly and brutally because of the extreme bitterness.
I'm afraid I still prefer the Glencraig: 3
Glencraig 33yo 1974-2008 50.5% SMWS
An old bottling which unfortunately someone stole from me, I did manage to come across a small sample online fortubately. Light and soft nose, grassy and citrussy. Pale colour. It seems to have little cask influence, even though it's 33 years. At first it's very sour, lime, wood, cream, dessert topping, dryness, flint, exciting but not very enjoyable. A couple drops of water added, and it becomes grainy and kind of burnt, the aftertaste is strong, phenolic but quite short.
Some good parts, but seems very tired: 4.5
Glenburgie 8yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
A whisky that rarely is bottled as a single malt. I'm gettin rosé wine, very harmonic for a whisky at such a young age. Tastewise it's carrotjuice, orange liqueur and vanilla fudge. Definately one of the lightest and fruitiest whiskies I've ever come across. Brown sugar dominates the finish.
An uplifting experience, something to start with: 7
Glencraig 16yo 1968-1984 40% Captain Burn's Selection
I think this one is a Gordon & Macphail bottling, sold under a different name on the southern european market, france and beyond. Anyway, Glencraig is a rare gem these days, and very hard to get a hold of. It was produced on Lomond Stills at the Gleburgie distillery from 1958-1981. A disappointment on the first nosing, as it's very anonymous, but give it some time, air, and circle the glass a bit, and some notes of nuts appears. It tastes very classic and old-fashioned, whipped cream, wax and oil, some water brings out some hints of dried turf as well.
Like whisky used to be, too bad there's so little left of it: 7
Glenburgie 11yo 59.8% Cadenhead's
A delightful light golden color on this IB, smells really fresh and clean, nice! But on the palate it hits like a bomb, far too strong to drink alone, needs a couple drops of water. With water, rather strong hints of banana and caramell comes to the surface, a bit of some maritim taste as well.
A powerful banana: 5
Glencraig 19yo 1981-2001 59.5% Cadenhead's
Finally I get my hands on a real Cask Strength Glencraig, this must be from one of the last casks distilled at Glenburgie. Very dark, obviously matured in a sherry cask. Smells of Sherry as well as dried meat and red paprika. Does taste like a dry speysider, except from a lovely sherryish finish. Heavy whisky, but a treasure for the ones that can handle it.
Extreme Classic: 8.5
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