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6th December 2019 |
Review of the
new GlenDronach Traditionally Peated.
 The
GlenDronach distillery which is better
known for its unpeated sherry cask
maturation style recently announced the
release of a new peated expression,
The GlenDronach Traditionally Peated.
The GlenDronach Traditionally Peated is
the creative handiwork of the
GlenDronachs Master Blender Dr. Rachel
Barrie, Rachel has crafted The
GlenDronach Traditionally Peated from a
marriage of peated spirit which has
matured in a combination of Pedro
Ximénez, Oloroso sherry and port casks,
using the same principles laid down
almost two hundred years ago at the
distillery when it was traditional
practice in the Highlands to burn peat
in the kiln towards the end of the
barley malting, creating a rich and
warm, earthy smoke.
Master Blender, Dr. Rachel Barrie
commented on the new peated expression
saying: "The GlenDronach Traditionally
Peated offers connoisseurs a rare
opportunity to explore the distillery’s
rich depths of sherry cask maturation,
whilst paying homage to the robust
peat-smoked earthy character of the
early 19th century, that James Allardice
himself would likely have enjoyed. This
wonderfully complex Single Malt presents
notes of Highland toffee, dark honey and
coal-smoked barley. Burnt orange and
treacle glide over the palate, on a base
of cloves and smoked bramble. Liquorice
and dark fruits linger and intensify
into the rich and earthy finish."
Bottled at 48% ABV and as is the case
for all The GlenDronach expressions, is
non-chill filtered and naturally
coloured over time from the Spanish oak
in which it resided.
William
Morrison's Tasting Notes:
Nose:
A gentle nose with sweet vanilla toffee
and honey infused with a equally gentle
peat smoke
Taste:
The toffee is now darker (burnt sugar)
and more treacled with a spicy orange
edge and all in fused with a lovely
gentle earthy peat smoke which has a
liquorice edge.
Finish:
The
earthy peat smoke and gentle spices
stand out on the finish and linger on
for an age, there is some very gentle
sherried fruit lurking in the background.
Comment:
It is certainly a different GlenDronach,
I suspect it isn't that old, it could
have benefitted from more good sherry
matured peated whisky in the mix. I
would guess that it is supposed to
replace the old GlenDronach Peated, it
is certainly different to it and as I
said I it would have benefitted from being
heavier sherried and more heavily
peated, still an very enjoyable dram as
it is.
SMW Whisky Score
82/100
You will find the GlenDronach
Traditionally Peated along wit the rest
of the current GlenDronach core range available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as
The Whisky Exchange,
The Whisky Shop and
Master of
Malt
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