Glenury Royal 36yo 1968-2004 51.2% OB
Another whisky from a bygone day from a distillery not as lucky as Glenglassaugh. Glenury Royal is not as much talked about as Brora or Port Ellen, but just as pricy. Let's see if this one can surprise me. Very pale for its age, and the smell shows perfect bourbon notes with lots of vanilla, cream, barley and white peach. Needs some time to really open up. The taste is creamy, a little syrupy, but most of all it bursts of maltiness, barley, dark ale, stoutish, roasted coffee beans, definitively an old style that's hard to find these days. The aftertaste is peppery and papery, quite weird.
Whisky with flavor of strong beer: 6
Glenury Royal 12yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
A bottling for John Gillon & Co in the 70's. Very powerful on the nose, sulphur and strong hints of deep frying pan and burnt ribs. Astonishing considering it's age and only 40% abv. It has a weird taste, a bit like licking a nylon rug, rough at first, but with a short and light aftertaste, which for me is hard to describe as anything other than vaseline.
One of a kind: 4
Glenury Royal 13yo 46% Cadenheads
Glenury Royal is another distillery which future seems a bit cloudy. This young malt reeks of dark syrup, eucalyptus and black pepper, very robust on the nose as well as the palate. A little water will bring forth a milder taste, and remind me more of the gentle taste of which the malt is fairly known. Exciting but indeterminate.
Lacks some real flavours: 3
Glenury Royal 14yo 1978-93 43% Signatory Vintage
This distillery has a saying of being one of the softer and finer malts out there. calm and sea-breezy on the nose, reminds me of the summers of my youth... Heather and juniper, mild and herbal with some salt and leather. Good potential, perhaps not reached it's best age yet.
Like strong green tea: 5
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