Glenalba 37-year-old Cd

Overall rating: 85.81/100
votes: 38

Category: Blend
Bottler: Clydesdale (Cd)
Vintage: 1981
Bottled: 2018
Stated Age: 37 years old
Casktype: Sherry Cask Finish
Casknumber: Batch 18/0491
Number of bottles: 1650
Strength: 40.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottled for: Lidl
Market: Germany
Added on: 22 Oct 2018 3:54 pm by Bullionstattsuppe

Average value

€ 261.45

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Whisky Reviews for Glenalba 37-year-old Cd

8 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 85.81 points

SmokeyRuhr scored this whisky 87 points
11 Nov 2018 11:50 pm
I'm really surprised by this discounter whiskey. 37 years is of course a house number, which is often justified to justify several hundred euros. Here far under 100 euros. Can that work out?
I think it went very well.
Not a heavy old whiskey, but a nice fruity, delicious and tasty whiskey, with hints of age.
I think the PLV is more than good.

Nose

88 88

The sherry cask finish makes you think of old whiskey from sherry casks, but it's still fruity and looks younger and fresher to me.
I would have typed on a single malt, or at least a blended malt, because of Grain I notice nothing.
Plums, berries and tobacco of a good cigar (not lit!). Overall, fruity and harmonious.

Taste

89 89

Yes, he is very good drinkable. It affects me more in the mouth than in the nose. Stronger and older. No alcohol to feel, just a little peppery tingle. But to the beautiful sweetness of dark fruits and the beautiful bitterness, as of dark drinking chocolate, which spreads beautifully oily and creamy in the mouth. Very pleasant mouthfeel so that you can let it circle in your mouth for a long time.

Finish

85 85

He remains fruity and chocolaty. Unfortunately, that does not stay that way for very long. He disappears relatively quickly. I do not have the pleasant bitterness left by some older sherry whiskey when leaving for a long time.
LDB scored this whisky 87 points
10 Nov 2018 7:50 pm
This blend is definitely considered to be successful. Of course, 43%
or better, but he is delicious, also in terms of price-age ratio.

Nose

87 87

Lots of cinnamon, hulls, sweet vanilla pod, honey, caramel, very sweet, freshly sawn old wood, tightly woven compote of deep yellow, ripe fruit.

Taste

88 88

Sugared blood orange, mild wood juice, flower nectar, very elegant and supple, spicy fruit paste with the aromatic wood notes without any bitterness

Finish

85 85

Relatively short, but pleasant woody note, very harmonious and gentle, with balanced oak cargo.
dRambo scored this whisky 87 points
07 Nov 2018 9:49 pm
Delicious compliant bottling at a great price - but you should at least multiply it by 1.5-2, because this whiskey does not want to be enjoyed in small malthead swallow. The price has a positive influence on my score - nice aromas of old stuff - just a bit diluted.

Nose

87 87

Superficially acidic to apple with clove, behind it red berry jam - sweet sour with blackberries a touch of blueberries - then it goes on towards orange, he is oily, fuller, sweeter, a little licorice and a fine hint of smoke - for most hardly noticeable, campfire Logs, smells like Italians when I enter the room with the fireplace for the first time that day - very fine and volatile, juicy tobacco with honey,
No grain notes - not even the typical OBF. Very round and soft - beautiful without any jotters, without corners, without edges and a lot of understatement.

With the first sip, it is even sweeter, walnuts, gingerbread spices, nutmeg, fine old wood dust.

Taste

89 89

Warm, red fruit jam, raisins, rum chocolate, clear pepper and tobacco notes, it feels at first rather like 43% +, is much stronger on the palate than in the nose.
Great sips are surprisingly long chewable - it develop great multilayered wood flavors, oak cabinet wall, wax, furniture polish, nutmeg, cocoa, banana skin, walnuts

Finish

86 86

Peppery, subtle fruity, quite dry - but pleasant - for me it reinforces the oak flavors - it does not stay long - but I chewed it too long
GlenBenDalen scored this whisky 83 points
11 Apr 2019 9:06 pm

Hm what can you say, proud 37 years to an unimaginable discount price (about 70-80 €). What awaits me there?

To start with, the 37 years you do not notice (unfortunately). I suspect that the significantly fresher / less balanced grain content is noticeable here. For me, the whiskey seems more like a sensible 20-year-old Speyside whiskey. The sherry barrel finish is well integrated. The nose is pleasantly round and harmonious. The taste shows a very fine smoke and a dry citrus note. I like the nose better personally.
The finish is pleasing and long.

If he had not been on the label for 37 years and he really was a 20-year-old Speysider, I would probably love the nose and appreciate the slight smoky note on the finish as a finesse. So formality and taste somehow do not match. The price / age ratio still leaves a funny impression.

But in total, the price is just okay.
PuddingmitHaut did not rate this whisky
30 Mar 2019 8:28 am

Fruit, old fruits, slightly berries, grape juice on one side, sawdust (not fresh), dusty chest of drawers, oak on the other side change here in nose and taste.

It starts fruity and becomes spicier. In the mouth a sweetish-spicy interplay that clearly falls on the spicy side when swallowing and leaving.

Very pleasant and interesting as he shows his different sides but unfortunately quite thin overall. It's really a pity that the 40% was diluted down here, but somehow the price has to come in at the age.
Buecherwurm scored this whisky 86 points
16 Mar 2019 6:33 pm

Nose: soft, restrained, I'm not sure whether old or in drinking strength, light vanilla, pineapple, apple and dried grass, possibly a touch of salt, with water adds a touch of elderberry
Taste: definitely a drink about 43% vll., Fudge, vanilla and ripe yellow apples, water immediately drowns it
Departure: short finish, dry and unfortunately a bit flat
Conclusion: Had him as a blindsmaple. No wrong material, but unfortunately a little closed. That could also be due to my daily form. I would tap on a drop in drinking strength especially from fresh ex-bourbon casks without an extremely old age.
Conclusion (after the dissolution): For the issue price a very fair affair and hats off for this business masterpiece a 37 years old whiskey for this price to present. But here is an example that age is not everything. It is a decent whiskey and the 37 years are very good for the grains, but this is certainly not as good as a 15-ounce Glengarioch. I have to imagine the sherry finish personally to notice.
FritzeKrautman scored this whisky 88 points
04 Nov 2018 7:12 pm
the beautiful fruitiness is its most prominent feature. He drinks relatively easily but is not too weak-breasted. The old age does not really come into play, the grain component is very restrained. The PLV in terms of taste is appropriate, but excellent in age.

Nose

87 87

Strong berry fruits (strawberries, raspberries), vanilla, bark, dust,

Taste

88 88

Sweet, fruity. Vanilla and malt, bitterness arises, the alcohol could be better integrated

Finish

90 90

In the fairly long finish then again very fruity with berries. Stimulates salivation with moderate bitterness.
Bullionstattsuppe scored this whisky 85 points
30 Oct 2018 6:21 pm

Detailed notes here:
https://www.malthead.org/malthead/tasting-glenalba-37-jahre-blended-scotch-whisky-von-lidl

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