Glen Elgin 1986 SV

Overall rating: 89.96/100
votes: 80

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glen Elgin
Bottler: Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling serie: The Un-Chillfiltered Collection - Cask Strength
Vintage: 11.09.1986
Bottled: 03.10.2017
Stated Age: 31 years old
Casktype: Hogshead
Casknumber: 2525
Number of bottles: 220
Strength: 47.2 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottle code: L17/571
Bottled for: The Nectar
Added on: 06 Nov 2017 9:05 am by lsy

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€ 189,95

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Whisky Reviews for Glen Elgin 1986 SV

20 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 89.96 points

lachaineduwhisky did not rate this whisky
26 Aug 2018 10:42 am
Nose

Fruit basket (that's what you write when you can not clearly identify the fruits!), Quite fresh, with also notes of citrus, which is quite rare for this age. Generous in volume, the toffee appears to be at the fruit level gradually.

Taste

Very nice fruity that sometimes evokes sweets. Of honey. Very beautiful intensity and liveliness. The barrel and distillate find a very nice balance!

Finish

Persistence of fruit and sparkle of sweet spices. It is creamy but remains a great freshness.

Consistency and consistency in the quality and volume of aromas from end to end.

Enthusiasm 4/5
Whisky n ° 1805
hs305 scored this whisky 91 points
07 Aug 2018 9:49 pm
[August, 2018] Another one of these fruity Speyside distilleries that are capable of producing great malts. I like the design of the new still house after they expanded and modernised this old distllery.

This release is a top notch Glen Elgin dram that offers both a flawless old-style (distillate-driven) whisky and an amazing fruity-honey-spicy profile that is dangerously sniffable and quaffable. Still there are gems at a reasonable price out there, you simply have to discover them...

Nose

91 91

The colour is yellow gold and the nose offers Glen Elgin at its best: A fruit salad with dozens of different home-grown and exotic fruits. There are fine barley sugars and heather honey aromas too with some spices (white pepper, cardamon). Excellent!

Taste

92 92

The taste is layered on fruity and delicious chocolatey flavours with spices and a touch of honey. All very balanced and without any flaw or off-note that I can find - the wood is just about right to provide a firm structure for all the different flavours. Water is not needed.

Finish

91 91

The dram arrives charming and instantly coating (creamy) in the mouth. The finish is long and vanishes very slowly on fruity flavours and notes of shortbread, very delicate. No distracting feeling like bitterness, dryness or astringent moments despite the long time in cask.
lincolnimp scored this whisky 90 points
18 Jul 2018 10:36 pm
A very nice glen Elgin

Nose

It is a fruit salad, all on pineapple, grapefruit, mango and lemon sherbet.

Lemon drizzle cake basically.

Taste

Some nice stewed fruit notes but there is a little woody bitterness and dryness at first.

Gets quite creamy and then a blast of peat come through, still some dryness.

Some buttercream emerges with icing sugar, improves with time

Finish

Quite long, remaining fruity
dRambo scored this whisky 91 points
19 Jan 2018 12:39 am
I certainly had better malts at that age, but the price tag is already nice 135-170 €.

Nose

sweet honey, geranium leaves, green tea, a little creamy beeswax, a hint of anise, very ripe lemon, sugar crust, orange, citrus and some mint oil, warm apple juice, mango, apricot, orange, later plum, fresh bark, tart herbs, birch sap , Bouillon, delicate subliminal sulfur note as in Craig23 The nose is dense, complex and quite voluminous.

Taste

Sweet oak, delicate dryness and fine tingling, citrus fresh and mature at the same time, wax, fennel, geranium foliage, floral notes, light chocolate touch which is becoming increasingly intense

Finish

warm, creamy, delicate but spicy - light chocolate bitterness - charming
wataya scored this whisky 90 points
22 Sep 2019 11:16 pm
Nose

89 89

Taste

91 91

Finish

89 89
ovanpuyvelde scored this whisky 90 points
02 May 2019 9:02 pm
Excellent fruity Glen Elgin at perfect drinking strength. No water needed. The nose is my favourite part of this whisky!

Nose

92 92

Taste

90 90

Finish

89 89
GIORGOS scored this whisky 90 points
16 Jan 2019 11:50 pm
Nose

91 91

Taste

90 90

Finish

89 89
mitcheltjes scored this whisky 90 points
16 Dec 2018 7:53 pm
Nose

88 88

Taste

91 91

Finish

90 90
checkpointuk scored this whisky 89 points
14 Dec 2018 10:37 am

Colour:
Pale gold
Nose:
Creamy fruit cocktail with lots of malt, caramel and marzipan. With milk, butter, brown cane sugar, honey, bread and orange juice. The spice is discreet and after prolonged breathing is also added some fruit gum.
Taste:
Soft, spicy and delicious! Creamy fruit pulp of pineapple, mango and lime. Add toffee, honey, china grass, white pepper, dry wood and herbaceous herbs to the finish. A successful combination!
Finish:
Medium long - now characterized by wood and herbal notes, so that the fruit gets a bit behind. Soft caramel-honey intervals sneak in between. Overall tart, dry and not quite fading to the taste level.
89 points
N: 89P / G: 90P / F: 88P
OlivierSegers scored this whisky 89 points
13 Nov 2018 7:35 pm
Nose

89 89

Taste

89 89

Finish

88 88

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