Dried fruits; raisin, fig, dates but also fresh greengages, apple and pineapple, cocoa-dusted cherries, green oak wood and toffee.

Fruity, cherry lips sweeties, cranberry, blackcurrant, cherry, raisin, acacia honey, demerara sugar, chocolate-coated toffee, red apples, soft cinnamon spice and green oak wood.

Long, sweet dried fruits and freshly-sawn oak timber or pencil shavings.

Sweet, fat and fruity are the first impressions. Thickened grapes and dark, viscous syrup from sugar beet smell from the glass and make for an irresistible sweet-spicy start. Pickled dates in honey and orange slices sprinkled with cane sugar and flambé let the saliva flow. It's getting darker and spicier, damp tobacco leaves and scuffed bare leather with those harsh notes that get in your nose when you put on an old ragged and sweaty leather jacket - superb. Sweet aromatic raisins and lots of dried fruit. Even slightly damp oak wood is there and brings nice scratchy, roasted roasted aromas. Alcohol does not sting your nose once.

Despite the almost 60% no burning or excessive sharpness, but the flavors are driven from the beginning with a fabulous force. Juicy prunes peppered with cinnamon and cloves, plus the spicy sugar beet syrup and dark Demerara sugar. And then oak and more oak. Orange peel and tannins tingle on the tongue, in combination with the dark caramelized sugar of a crème brûlée open up real chasms of aromas. I can only shake my head in disbelief and ask myself how to get something like this with such young whiskys. Glengoyne is known for the care taken in selecting the barrels and they must have some very extraordinary and lively barrels in their stores. And nice that they make them so sympathetic to the masses, without any hype crap and stupid stories. Wow, a dram addictive.

Quite short to medium long, but again with full force spicy and sweet, with many dark typical sherry aromas and old oak wood. Drying disappears, the sweetness and especially beautiful tart spices such as cinnamon and cloves and a hint of deep black liquorice sound the longest after warming.

intense sherry; Dried fruits; dark-fruity; Oranges; Raisins; Dates; Cherries; caramelized sugar; Spices; some leather and sweet tobacco; spicy woody oak notes; with water it opens nicely on the fruity side

powerful; sweet sherry; dark red fruits; Cherries; Raisins; Dates; caramelized sugar; some cinnamon; dark chocolate; in addition a tingling, aromatic oak; tolerates water - then the slight sharpness gives way to the great fruitiness and the beautiful oak flavor remains in the background

medium to long; spicy; Dried fruits; Raisins; dark chocolate; Cinnamon; slightly bitter oak

Initially this is remarkable good nosing despite of the almost 60%. Red Apples, cherries, grapefruits, cigars, burned sugar. There are still some sweet malty notes to be noticed after a while, but there is also a less pleasant rather faint, fermenting kind of smell to it. That’s a pitty. It reveales that this is rather young stuff. I would definitely call this faint, fermenting smell an off note. Therefore I have to respectfully disagree with other reviews bellow.

Taste is very warm and alcoholic without water. It is also rather soft and full flavored. But don’t be shy on the water though. With water it gets more creamy and very tastefull. There are, again, definitely young, malty aroma’s to be found. Pleasant as well as unpleasant. Also chocolate and dark red fruits.

Finish is long. It’s an interesting play between young malty influences and stronger, more mature aroma’s of the casks. But again the young part dominates my palate. Especially at the very end that faint off note (as I call it) stays with me longer than I want to.

Dust, grass, sweet bread, cocoa powder, dry wood, coffee, spices, hibiscus, chocolate (22)

Sourness, strong tea, leather, spices (22)

Juicy finish, wine acidity, leather, wood and tobacco, mushrooms, mint (22)

Shortbread, orange marmelade, sweet-sour, quince and caraway seed, there is always a light sour touch that reminds me on a spicial kind of ham and the crust of a roasted pork
After tasting: shortbread again, ham and salted potatoes
With one drop of water: its quite same but a little bit more intensive and sweeter, anise

Sweetness of candies, a minimum of 50 fruits hit me, probably kiwi? Yeah its kiwi; lemon candie,

Citrus, astringent, waxy, tar, a long finish