No photo this time, as the ones I'm about to taste both comes from brown sample bottles, so it has little visual impact. I've always felt Glen Grant being a bit too light and easy, but there's rumors around about stupendous older bottlings, especially from G&M. Let's hope for a bit of an awakening with these two then.
Glen Grant 5yo 1980 40% OB
5yo, I remember Macduff, or Glen Deveron if you like, had some 5yo's as well back in the days. I purchased one of them, not my best money spent to be fair. Let's hope Glen Grants youngsters has matured a bit quicker. The color is like diluted white wine, almost blank. It smells of oak, raw, spirity, gasoline, paint thinner, white spirit, some hay and grassy notes. The taste is extremely sweet, aniseed liqueur, vanilla, coconut, tonic water, nice stuff, but its very obvious its bottled before its prime.
Sweet and light whisky: 5.5
Glen Grant 27yo 1980-2008 54% Bladnoch Forum cask#20291
Considering the strength and age, this whisky should be a fuller and have a bigger impact. But remember, they're the same vintages. Golden color. It smells oaky, bourbon notes, malty, vinegar, olives, oat meal, stout. A rich and wholesome malt it seems. The taste is sweet, aniseed again, not that far away from the 5yo actually, just less spirity and more oaky with vanilla and coconut again. I'll add some water now. Water helps it open up a bit on more peppery and vanilla notes. All in all its a rather one-dimensioned malt, with little or no finish. But if you're a dog after bourbon casks, this one sure could appeal to you.
Decent malt, sweet and light, needs water: 5.5
Next tasting: I'll stop doing this for a bit now as it seems I'm way too inconsistent in keeping my word...
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