Glen Moray 21-year-old

Offers a lot... is often underestimated - hidden champion. [91 - 87 = extremely tasty -> it's best if I get a second bottle]

Very rich nose, wood and red fruits, fig, quetsche, ripe apricot, but also pumpkin, salted butter caramel, crushed blueberries, white currants, blackberries, and some raspberries. Behind, cereals, barley, wheat, muesli, rich and humid soil. Very nice balance. The mouth is creamy, hint of vanilla, varnished wood, grenadine, molasses, hint of lychee, quince, spices, paprika, turmeric, saffron. Again, very rich and very varied. Nice finish, robust, on wood and heather, cola, some floral reflections, a squeeze of lemon. Biscuit. It is a great success, complex, fruity, at the same time sweet, creamy and solid. But it's not worth the price it's currently selling for. https://ilikesky2020.blogspot.com/2021/11/glen-moray-21-yo-elgin-heritage.html

Not tasting much of the port cask but quite nice bourbon cask, balanced and drinkable - very nice!

dried fruits, marzipan, orchard fruits, vanilla, honey, cinnamon, quite pleasant

A really tasty old boy that scores particularly well with delicious wood aromas and notes of dried fruits. Very stringent appearance.

with water: add citrus fruits. He does not need water from my feeling Conclusion: Yummy, fresh coconut macaroon with strawberry topping. Successful finish, age of 21 gives the malt a certain maturity and depth

A smooth, round whisky. Very well-balanced, with no off-flavors. Newly tasted Whisky Ship Lucerne 2024 Rehearsed again on September 25th in Beinwil. (86)

A very pleasant whisky in aroma and taste, which should be delicate and quite digestible even for picky gourmets. A lot of sweetness, ripe honeydew fruits and forest berries with a pleasant aftertaste of honey bitterness, makes you want to reach for another refill to the glass. The longer it stays in the glass, the sweeter and fruitier it becomes. The empty glass retains the aroma the next morning.

Blind tasting Definitely not worth €190 for me.

A truly beautiful and well-matured bottling, whose age is evident. Overall very straightforward, yet also absolutely harmonious and pleasing. Pairs wonderfully with dessert.

Comparison tasting with Glen Moray 18. A beautifully mature standard, on par with very good independently bottled Glen Morays.

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/whiskylive-2025-day-1-part-1-2/ C: Did Glen Moray get [even] better in recent years? A wholly different prospect with regards to complexity & depth compared to the 18, with a fungal aspect and cask-entwinned sugars that float my boat in the moment. A step up, those three extra years show dividends, but the pair are very different in profile and style, many preferring the 18.

It hits all the right notes for a malt, offering a balanced and satisfying experience.

This malt gets better with every sip. Its harmonious and beautiful aroma profile only really comes to light with a longer stay in the mouth, even if it lacks some oak. You should definitely take your time with this malt, and not just when smelling it.

Quasi successor to the 25 port with 43%. It had nice "old-school" aromas, but it looked quite thin. The 21 is a bit "fresher" and more aromatic, but without being too modern - the 21 years are showing and the harmony between the character of the distillery and the barrel fits. Successful bottling, albeit a bit ambitious in price. Very coherent and elegant whisky that is convincing in all points but there is no wow effect.

Blind Tasting

"A sweet, chocolate-covered bun with apricot and apple in an old cupboard" Dried apricots, old pear, green apple, feijoa, chocolate fondant, cream, pine wood, humidor.

Tasted on 09-16-2021.

Nose: baking spices, pastries, pain aux raisin, tobacco, dates and dark chocolate Palate: white grapes and melon. Very sweet- sugar mice Finish: golden caster sugar and black pepper, orange juice and tinned lychees Richer with water Tasted blind with the North East Whisky Appreciation Society and brand ambassador Ian Allen.

Smell: medium to full bouquet, clear on the fruity side, the wood is pleasantly restrained despite its advanced age, but amarena cherry, ripe plum notes, with aeration somewhat yellow-fruity, ripe pear, apple / cinnamon compote, vanilla in the base, really nicely balanced with precisely the finely dosed portion of woody spice that brings the fruity aromas of the whisky to the fore Taste: medium body, nice melting, fine fruit sweetness, perfectly integrated alcohol, milk chocolate, English orange jam with its inevitable bitter tail, plum in alcohol, medium to long finish Color: burnished gold tone, narrow water edge, clear Conclusion: Port Finish, that a really successful connection is made with the original Bourbon maturation - it's fun and shows once again why Glen Moray is always worth an "affair" outside of the standard range ...

BLIND TASTING nose intense but very balanced nose, directly medium-strong sherry aromas and very well integrated alcohol. clearly on the tangy-tangy side, only a little sweet - oloroso barrel? Remember the Moroccan Spice Market I often smell at Glen Moray. Tobacco and old books, leather armchairs in the library, slightly dusty. A hint of mineral aromas and a bit of old wax and dark forest honey, but the sweetness holds back. It's also going in the direction of my favorite distillery, I wonder if someone wants to test me there. But the nose is not clear, it's just a little bit in that direction. Pine needles and then even more of these mineral-waxy aromas that slowly creep out of the glass. I'm slowly recognizing a tendency, owei that could be a nice embarrassment here :-D Some cinnamon is added and maybe clove with orange? taste Still very well integrated alcohol, but with strong aromas - the dry, tart and spicy sherry continues to dominate with the forest honey in the background and a slightly dirty mineral note. The rather deep alcohol shows up here, not because the dram is not powerful, but because it glides smoothly over the tongue. The recent and spicy forest honey would like to come more into the foreground. The tart sherry aromas from the nose are also there, tobacco leaves, cinnamon, old leather and still a little orange aroma with spices and, above all, cloves. Complex, I would guess an age over 20 years here. On the finish, more oak and light bitter substances that go along with the spicy sherry. Exit Long, warming but not burning, very pleasant. Spicy, tart, dry, dusty, slightly bitter and slightly waxy-mineral. Does a layer stick to your tongue, forest honey mixed with tobacco and cinnamon? Very tasty and very long-lasting! Conclusion An extremely delicious sherry malt, here I find everything I like in a sherry dram - and I'm on the verge of whether or not I should assign it to my distillery. It's definitely going in this direction, but it's not quite as strong as other Sherry Clynelishs that I love so much. What it is makes no difference either, the dram is extremely tasty! This bitter sherry and the slightly dirty, minerally one is just great! In the end, I type 24 years, oloroso sherry barrel. In the end I don't say Clynelish, but what it could be is extremely difficult to say. Something similar :-D I can hardly commit myself, I tend towards the Highlands, but with the sherry certain Speysiders can also taste like that, for example the aforementioned Glen Moray and others. Yes, that's a difficult dram to guess, but a great one to enjoy! N-92, T-92, F-91 for excellent 92 points

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I liked it, at the beginning it was difficult for me to dissect individual notes, but over time it opened up to me. And it got better with every sip and developed a dangerous drinkability.