Glendronach Single Malt Scotch Whisky tasting notes
 

Whiskyfun
 Home
 (Current entries)

Glendronach
tasting index


Latest Tasted
Glendronach 39 yo 1972/2011 (49.9%, OB, Oloroso Sherry Butt, cask # 712, 466 bottles) - 011211
 



Whisky Tasting
 

 

 

  
Glendronach Single Malt Scotch Whisky tasting notes

The Whisky Tasting Indexes - Glendronach
 

Glendronach - Scotch Malt Whisky - Region: Speyside
WF Distillery Ranking: Deuxième Cru Classé (all current rankings here)

Status: active - Stills: 4 (2 wash, 2 spirit) - Founded: 1826
Address: Forgue, Huntly, Aberdeenshire AB54 6DB - Phone: +44 (0) 1446 730 20
Web: - More info: Malt Madness

My favourite expression so far:
Glendronach 18 yo 1972 (43%, OB, sherry)
 92 points - Last tasted: August 26, 2006 - Tasting notes: here
 Glendronach
General Distillery Profile - keywords (wazzat?)
Sherry Wine sauce Chocolate Honey Nuts Rum Soy sauce Sultanas Coffee
MM Distillery profile:
The Glendronach distillery in the Deveron (Speyside) area of Scotland was founded in 1826 by Glendronach Distillery Co., a partnership headed by one James Allardes (or Allardyce). Just one decade after it was founded, Glendronach was destroyed by a fire - a fate that was not that unusual for the whisky distilleries at the time. After the disaster several people... More on Malt Madness.		 Glendronach
Check all the 'winners' (90 points or more) on this wee list (PDF)
Whiskyfun tasting notes
OB - no vintage
  • Glendronach 8 yo (45.4%, OB, dumpy green 75cl bottle) - 040504
  • Glendronach 8 yo 'Octarine' (46%, OB, 2010) - 130510
  • Glendronach 12 yo (43%, OB, Italy, bulky green bottle, pale vatting, 75cl, 1970's) - 040309
  • Glendronach 12 yo (43%, OB for Previ Brescia, sherry casks, early-mid 1980’s) - 161006
  • Glendronach 12 yo (43%, OB, not Traditional or Original, Sherry casks) - no notes - 84
  • Glendronach 12 yo ‘Original’ (43%, OB, 75cl, +/-1985) - 040309
  • Glendronach 12 yo ‘Original’ (40%, OB, c 2004) - 260904
  • Glendronach 12 yo 'Original' (43%, OB, 2009) - 060809
  • Glendronach 14 yo 'Sauternes Finish' (46%, OB, 2010) - 171010
  • Glendronach 14 yo 'Virgin Oak Finish' (46%, OB, 2010) - 171010
  • Glendronach 15 yo (40%, OB, US, 100% matured in sherry casks, +/-1995) - 310309
  • Glendronach 15 yo '100% Sherry' (40%, OB, +/-1999) - no notes - 76
  • Glendronach 15 yo 'Revival' (46%, OB, 2009) - 310309
  • Glendronach 15 yo 'Moscatel Finish' (46%, OB, 2010) - 171010
  • Glendronach 18 yo 'Allardice' (46%, OB, 2009) - 310309
  • Glendronach 20 yo 'Tawny Port Finish' (46%, OB, 2010) - 171010
  • Glendronach 21 yo 'Parliament' (48%, OB, 2011) - 280911
  • Glendronach 31 yo 'Grandeur' (45.8%, OB, oloroso sherry casks, 1013 bottles, 2010) - 111110
  • Glendronach 33 yo (40%, OB, oloroso, 2006?) - 161006
  • Glendronach 33 yo (40%, OB, Oloroso Sherry, +/-2008) - 040309
OB - vintage
  • Glendronach 25 yo 1968/1993 (43%, OB) - 281008
  • Glendronach 38 yo 1971/2009 (49.4%, OB, Oloroso, cask #483, 544 bottles) - 280911
  • Glendronach 40 yo 1971/2011 (48.5%, OB, PX sherry puncheon, cask #1436, 583 bottles) - 171011
  • Glendronach 18 yo 1972 (43%, OB, sherry) - 040906
  • Glendronach 37 yo 1972/2009 (53.3%, OB for LMdW, oloroso sherry butt, cask #705, 275 bottles) - 141009
  • Glendronach 38 yo 1972/2010 (49.5%, OB, Taiwan Import, Oloroso Sherry butt, cask #700, 241 bottles) - 031210
  • Glendronach 39 yo 1972/2011 (49.9%, OB, Oloroso Sherry Butt, cask # 712, 466 bottles) - 011211
  • Glendronach 25 yo 1985/2010 (52.9%, Highlander Inn, cask #1038, 316 bottles) - 060311
  • Glendronach 20 yo 1989/2010 (53.2%, OB, Pedro Ximenez puncheon, cask #3315, 522 bottles) - 171010
  • Glendronach 16yo 1992/2009 (60.8%, OB for Versailles Dranken Nijmegen, Holland, 306 bottles) - 130510
Douglas Laing
  • Glendronach 26 yo 1974/2001 (47.5%, DL Old Malt Cask, 198 bottles) - no notes - 83
  • Glendronach 14 yo 1995/2010 (50%, Douglas Laing for Passchendaele 1917 Pipes and Drums, refill butt, 240 bottles) - 130510
Duncan Taylor
  • Glendronach 33 yo 1975/2008 (51.4%, Duncan Taylor, ‘Three Generations’, cask #706) - 281008
Murray McDavid
  • Glendronach 13 yo 1990/2003 (46%, Murray McDavid, Bourbon, MM579) - no notes - 87
Samaroli
  • Glendronach 1970/1990 (43%, Duthie for Samaroli, ‘Flowers’, 480 bottles) - 281008
Signatory
  • Glendronach 20 yo 1970/1990 (56%, Signatory, cask #513-518, 3800 bottles) - no notes - 91
  • Glendronach 22 yo 1975/1998 (57.7%, Signatory, cask #1686, 268 bottles) - 040906
  • Glendronach 9 yo 1987/1997 (58.5%, Signatory Dumpy, cask #57, 520 bottles) - 060809
SMWS
  • Glendronach 16 yo 1979/1996 (58.1%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, #96.6, ‘Scents from Austria, Russia and the Balkans’) - 141009
Wilson & Morgan
  • Glendronach 1990/2004 Port Finish (46%, Wilson & Morgan) - 071104
Various IB
  • Glendronach 1970/1992 (43%, Reserve Cantarelli, hogsheads #546-547, 1200 bottles) - 040906
  • Glendronach 1996/2009 (59.1%, Whiskykanzler, Germany, butt #196) - 130510
 
There's nothing more down there...