Tasting one Glen Elgin

There's been some great Glen Elgins through the years, a nice spicy distillate and often enhanced in what seems to be very good casks.



















Glen Elgin 17yo 1991-2008 54.6% James MacArthur's cask#2598

IB expressions of Glen Elgin seems to be further between these days than it used to be. Maybe some distillery politics have changed? The color on this one is deep, dark amber. It smells of sweet limonade, fruity, watermelon, red paprika, oily, fish stock, stewed onions, sugar peas, vanilla, banana leaves, a fresh and fruity summer malt. The taste is sweet, biscuity, peppery, dried leaves, oaky, needs a drop of water I think. Now it turns oakier, more leathery, cardboard, weeds, herbs. This is quite hard to get a good spin on, needs both time and water, but even after that its a bit too much dry and peppery notes for me..

Do not add water: 6



Next tasting: Balblair Distillery