51,8°
Distillery : The GlenDronach - Highlands
Pedro Ximénez Puncheon Cask
Original Bottling
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2023
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Totally Unpeated
At Glendronach, each Cask Bottling comes from a cask that has been specially selected by the distillery's Master Blender (now Rachel Barrie), because the whisky inside has been deemed remarkable, even exceptional. And when you realise that this particular Cask Bottling has been selected too by La Maison du Whisky for exclusive sale in France as part of the New Vibrations label, you realise that it can only be particularly incredible, because it has been selected twice. It was aged for a minimum of 28 years and nine months in a Pedro Ximénez Puncheon cask, from which 684 bottles were released.
Let's Taste It :
Very rich sherry, fruit pastes, blueberry, blackberry and raspberry jam, waxed wood. Chocolate and exotic tones, blood orange, mango and apricot. But it is above all the red fruits that dominate, very pulpy. On the palate, it's unctuous, syrupy, heady, satiny, you can really feel the fruit pulp, the spices add fullness, nutmeg, cardamom, and even thyme and sage, there's liquorice, melted chocolate, wild strawberry, clementine, and a few tarry notes in the background. The finish is very long and mellow, gently drying, then becoming fuller, with fudge, liquorice, coffee, brown tobacco, fruit loukoum, damp and crumbly wood.
In Short,
Glendronach's Cask Bottlings never disappoint. You know what you're going to get, and it's great every time. Such consistency in excellence is impressive. This one is more or less on a par with the others I've had the chance to taste, except that I found the palate a little lacking in expressiveness, but it's still top quality, it's just not the best. The price is also constant, always astronomical, out of reach for us humble workers.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Dave Chavez Band - Nothing But the Blues
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