\nGlen Garioch Virgin Oak: 8.09 \u00b1 0.50 on 6 reviews ($$$$)
\nGlen Garioch 12yo: 8.62 \u00b1 0.33 on 14 reviews ($$$$)
\nGlen Garioch 1991: 8.94 \u00b1 0.14 on 3 reviews ($$$$)
\nGlen Garioch 1994: 9.03 \u00b1 0.36 on 7 reviews ($$$$)
\nGlen Garioch 1995: 8.92 \u00b1 0.34 on 8 reviews ($$$$)<\/strong>
\nGlen Garioch 1997: 8.53 \u00b1 0.15 on 6 reviews ($$$$)
\nGlen Garioch 1999 Sherry Cask Matured: 8.37 \u00b1 0.97 on 7 reviews ($$$$)<\/p>\n
Benromach 10yo: 8.69 \u00b1 0.26 on 20 reviews ($$$)
\nBowmore 10yo Tempest: 8.78 \u00b1 0.22 on 18 reviews ($$$$)
\nBowmore 12yo: 8.39 \u00b1 0.28 on 17 reviews ($$$)
\nBruichladdich Islay Barley 8.54 \u00b1 0.23 on 12 reviews ($$$$)
\nBruichladdich Port Charlotte Scottish Barley Heavily Peated: 8.78 \u00b1 0.28 on 14 reviews ($$$$)
\nCaol Ila 12yo: 8.70 \u00b1 0.19 on 19 reviews ($$$$)
\nCaol Ila 18yo: 8.66 \u00b1 0.51 on 14 reviews ($$$$$)
\nOban 14yo: 8.42 \u00b1 0.40 on 15 reviews ($$$$)
\nOban 18yo: 8.72 \u00b1 0.18 on 12 reviews ($$$$$)
\nSpringbank 10yo: 8.68 \u00b1 0.24 on 19 reviews ($$$$)
\nSpringbank 16yo Local Barley: 9.02 \u00b1 0.18 on 8 reviews ($$$$$)
\nSpringbank 18yo: 8.96 \u00b1 0.19 on 17 reviews ($$$$$)
\nTalisker Distiller’s Edition: 8.95 \u00b1 0.25 on 17 reviews ($$$$)
\nTalisker 10yo: 8.91 \u00b1 0.17 on 21 reviews ($$$$)<\/p>\n
As you can see, the Glen Garioch 1995 gets a very high score for this class, especially for the price (i.e., it one of the highest ranking cluster I<\/a> malts in the $$$$ group). It doesn’t have as many reviews as many of the others, but I find the average score of most whiskies is pretty stable once 7-8 reviews are in.<\/p>\n Glen Garioch 1995 is bottled 55.3% ABV. My sample was provided by Redditor WDMC-905. Here is what I find in the glass.<\/p>\n Nose<\/strong>: Honey. Light fruits, mainly apple and pear (and some starfruit). Sweet peat, with just a touch of smoke. A bit woody (evergreens). No real off notes. Some water helps it open up, and brings up sweet butterscotch and dried banana.<\/p>\n Palate<\/strong>: Initial tingle in the tip of the tongue, anesthetizing. Definite antiseptic notes, lightly medicinal, with those woody notes turning to menthol now. Honey again, and some dry grassy notes. Not very fruity. With water though, you get a lot of sweetness – toffee, butterscotch and vanilla in particular. Pancake syrup. The fruits are back as well, along with a touch of citrus (lemon). This is one where water is really required to bring out the maximum range of flavours, as well as a nice buttery mouthfeel. Very nice.<\/p>\n Finish<\/strong>: Medium long. Nice, slow linger of the pancake syrup notes, with whiffs of smoke right to the very end.<\/p>\n The Glen Garioch 1995 is great malt for fans of flavour cluster I<\/a> – lightly smokey, but packing a good range of subtle flavours. But it is also one that definitely needs some water in my view – otherwise, it is too closed off and anesthetizing.<\/p>\n The highest scores I’ve seen for this whisky come from the guys in the Quebec Whisky<\/a> club, and on Reddit (see for example muaddib99<\/a> and xile_<\/a>). Serge of Whisky Fun hasn’t reviewed this specific vintage, but he has most of the others from this time period – and gives them all an above-average score (e.g., see the 1994 vintage<\/a>). Similarly, Ralfy hasn’t reviewed this vintage, he did give a very good score to the earlier 1990 vintage<\/a>. More moderate on the 1995 vintage is Gavin of Whisky Advocate<\/a>.\u00a0 Jim Murray gives this 1995 vintage a lower than average score.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glen Garioch (pronounced GEAR-ee) is not exactly a house-hold name in the Scotch world, but the distillery is actually one of the oldest in Scotland. Today, it is known for its relatively mild and gentle single malts, most especially the inexpensive NAS Founder’s Reserve and 12 year old expression. Glen Garioch also regularly produces a number of limited edition, small<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,96,80,17],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskies","tag-17yo","tag-glen-garioch","tag-peated","tag-single-malt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"glen-garioch-1995\"](\"http:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Glen.Garioch.1995.jpg\")
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