Glenrothes 1997 CA

Name: Glenrothes 1997 CA
Brand: Glenrothes
SKU: 109528
Rating: 87.29 (146 reviews)

Overall rating: 87.29/100
votes: 146

Whiskybase ID: 109528
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glenrothes
Bottler: Cadenhead (CA)
Bottling serie: Small Batch
Vintage: 1997
Bottled: 2018
Stated Age: 20 years old
Casktype: 3x Butts
Number of bottles: 1524
Strength: 56.2 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Barcode: 2100000143757
Added on: 24 Mar 2018 9:38 am by mullos

Average value

€ 120.50

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Whisky Reviews for Glenrothes 1997 CA

27 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 87.29 points

thijs100 scored this whisky 88 points
03 Jul 2018 3:13 pm
Sherry matured Glenrothes rarely disappoints, an neither does this one. Don't be scared to play around with water, it can take it.

Nose

Roasted peanuts with dark caramel and luscious red fruit, as well as cocoa powder. There's a hint of leather here too, with just a touch of mint.

Taste

The roasted peanut skins make an encore, but there's also mocha, dark coffee and burned caramel, as well as polished leather. Quite aggressive, and fairly spicy. There's some chili and ginger, but also faint notes of cherry syrup.

Finish

Lingering spices, before settling into a sweeter territory. Long.
Hvdree scored this whisky 89 points
12 Apr 2018 10:38 pm
- Nose
  
  88 88
- Taste
  
  90 90
- Finish
  
  89 89
lachaineduwhisky did not rate this whisky
11 Jun 2019 11:45 pm
Nose

Discreet Sherry, very Speyside. Golden cereals, burnt wood. But also a concern in the integration of alcohol.
Sage, rather small.
With water, caramelized hazelnuts, which brings a hint of gluttony, but without leaving the overall profile of this relative austerity, or without making it completely take off.

Taste

Sherry, very spicy, the whole lack of balance.
With water, sweeter, rich, fleshy, but also delicate. Very nice range of spices, in the precision, with a little dust.

Finish

Sweet bitter. Spicy persistence on clove.
With water, voluminous, on spices, fragrant, with herbs, it detonates!
Sticky texture in length.

Enthusiasm
Nose 3/5
Mouth 2/5 (4/5 with water)
Final 3/5 (4/5 with water)

Whisky n ° 2072
wisekycourse scored this whisky 88 points
29 May 2019 8:27 pm
20-year-old Cadenhead finish in sherry

Nose

caramelized and spicy sweetness
leather, dust, dried herbs
a typical sherry side with cooked grapes
a little chocolate

Taste

cooked fruits and very sweet confits,
stubborn woody, kind chopped chips,
the leather is present, polished, shiny
oozing nuts with melted chocolate on
back spicy and caramelized, and buttered slightly

Finish

softness of wood, leather,
cooked fruits (raisin and musty, banana, cooked apple) and its syrup!
long enough!
eNZzo scored this whisky 90 points
14 Mar 2021 7:40 pm
Nose

90 90

Taste

90 90

Finish

89 89
Lakerfield scored this whisky 84 points
07 Nov 2020 3:23 pm
A spicy profile, not really my kind of dram however you can't deny its quality. Very Tamdhu-esque with the toffee/butterscotch notes. The thing that kills the all-in-all balance of this whisky is the enormous wood influence. Not the sherry, but the oak indeed. It also has a sourness on the palate that is a little out of place. Ah well. It is not unpleasant at all just not my style!

Nose

The Oloroso for sure made its mark on this one. Spicy, herbal and sour with just enough fruits and sweetness for balance. This almost leans towards an exotic intensity with pear, orange peel, raisin, cranberry, banana, fig and coconut. A wave of milk chocolate, butterscotch, apple pie, Nutella and Snickers bar thereafter. Then there's this spicy and herbal side I told you earlier: vanilla, thyme, ginger, roasted nuts, paprika, pencil shaving and a hint of French mustard. Very strong chocolate on the nose and that's always a plus. Sherried Tamdhu has a similar, creamy profile.

Taste

Feels thick and oily. Fairly rough on the alcohol and a lot of spice and wood as expected. The fruits are less intense with sour apple, blood orange, fig, plum and a hint of coconut milk. After that assorted chocolate, toffee, sultana and cherry bonbon. Almond, ginger, pepper, mint, oak tannin, shoe polish and a tiny gunpowder-like sulphur note round things off. Goes in the same general direction of the nose, dry and chocolatey. Wood spice is taking up a very big fraction of the taste though, I strongly recommend adding water to this dram. It can make a few points difference!

Finish

A lovely long finish, chocolate galore again. Some peanut, grain cereal and smoke too.
STL scored this whisky 86 points
13 Jun 2020 10:15 pm
Slightly brutal sherry, like drinking alcohol ...

Nose

87 87

Taste

86 86

Finish

86 86
Joschbert scored this whisky 88 points
30 May 2020 9:51 pm
For less than 100 € good PLV

Nose

89 89

Nice, modern wood and leather aromas. Very earthy.

Taste

86 86

Nutty sherry notes, polish, the alcohol is a bit annoying without water. Nice intensity. I lack fruit aromas.

Finish

88 88

Dark chocolate, now a little stone fruit (plum / apricot), walnut, long
thatfamousgrouse scored this whisky 87 points
19 Apr 2020 6:18 pm

Nose: Floral bordering on soapy, with a thick backdrop of wet forest. Mineral lemon, raspberry, toffee, galette des rois (almond pastry), salted peanuts, and a hint of cardamom.

Palate: Slightly more fruity, with figs and dates, and sweet lemon. Remains quite floral and earthy with damp cedar, peanuts & toffee. Sharp spice is creeping in.

Finish: Fades with heavy spice and hints of Raspberry and lemon. Almost smoky.

Score: B+ (87 if you must); Clearly not what one might expect from 20 years in sherry butts, though with Cadenhead you should expect the occasional curveball. Savory and nutty and not at all shy. Almost tastes like an unpeated Bowmore. Very good but not an all-timer.
Kensay scored this whisky 87 points
12 Apr 2020 12:17 am
Dessert Winter Whisky

Nose

saturated sherry malt, dessert, pastry shop, smoked plum and raisins, some tobacco

Taste

dessert, spices and raisins in oil

Finish

tobacco, dry wood and some spices

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