The Glenlivet 15 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 55 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Cheery, full summer fruit basket. ripe apricot, juicy peaches. Honeyed custard. Butterscotch. On the sweet side. Palate Soft and tender. Stewed fruit. Vanilla syrup. Spices gently emerge. Flavours lose their charm with water. Finish Soft and mellow with a nutty tinge. Comment A very pleasant summery dram. Quite fragile though. Water tends to wipe out flavours.

Dave Broom Nose Rich and heavily spiced. Aromatic, exotic, some varnish, mint, Puy lentil, sweet polished oak. Good intensity. Palate More interesting to start: apple purée, flowers then the oak grips. Sappy. Finish Spiced, slightly tannic. Comment This is more about oak than the whisky. Seems forced: trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.