Glendronach 1993

Overall rating: 90.45/100
votes: 152

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glendronach
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Single Cask
Vintage: 19.02.1993
Bottled: 05.2014
Stated Age: 21 years old
Casktype: Oloroso Sherry Butt
Casknumber: 475
Number of bottles: 627
Strength: 56.4 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottle code: LH80550
Barcode: 5060088798577
Bottled for: La Maison du Whisky & The Nectar
Added on: 09 Jul 2014 12:15 pm by ted.striker

Average value

€ 245.33

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Whisky Reviews for Glendronach 1993

22 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 90.45 points

Malinois scored this whisky 86 points
04 Mar 2018 8:45 pm

To much varnish for me to score higher, but still a decent dram.
GIORGOS scored this whisky 92 points
18 Dec 2017 9:58 pm
- Nose
  
  93 93
- Taste
  
  91 91
- Finish
  
  92 92
St. Pauli scored this whisky 90 points
18 May 2017 9:48 pm
Nose

Dark, woody and earthy. There is quite some polished oak and sandalwood in the beginning. Then the dark fruit (sultanas, date) and appelstroop join the nose. Behind that is a nutty side (walnut) and an earthy side of dark black tea, damp earth and cocoa.

Taste

Quite thick, oily and sweet associated for an Oloroso single cask. Cherry liqueur, polished wood, cinnamon, mocha, raisin, and milk chocolate. At the end, pepper comes in.

Finish

Long, on dark sherry, walnut, pepper, cinnamon, coffee and date.
Gaija scored this whisky 90 points
31 Dec 2016 2:37 pm
- Nose
  
  89 89
- Taste
  
  92 92
- Finish
  
  91 91
Gaija scored this whisky 90 points
31 Dec 2016 2:34 pm
One of the blackest drams I've ever had, you gotta like the stone-y and peppery kick on the palate but boy, what a palate ! Tremendous experience, quite an extreme beast once it crosses your lips. But I might have wanted a more expressive nose actually.

Nose

Varnished wood at first then blueberries and black fruits allsorts quickly get the center stage. Herbal black tea, blackberries, blackcurrants … the whole remains very "light" though, fresh and almost a bit shy. Liquid dry dark chocolate whatever that means (I'm so sorry) in a liquorous guise, like rum baba or tartuffo. Complexity reveals itself with patience. By subtle fruity episodes : raspberries, figs, blood oranges, peonies, kirsch, blackberry yoghurt. Or by spicy ones : cloves, carraway, pine scones (not the resinous side, rather the big dry pine-y scent). A very dry and blackesty black chocolate rules over this nose. And yet really it's not heavy at all, it's quite laid-back and discrete.

Taste

Now we're talking. Starts soft on alcohol with black chocolate syrup, açaï berries and blackberries and then there's a huge power-spike that reveals the main note : a fat minerality like graphite or raw blue stone. Really getting the image of chewing black stones. Blackfruits are still massively around, blueberries and blackberries especially, raspberries too, the black chocolate, along with a big nervous pepper kick, cloves, fresh bitter almonds … Bombastic stuff. Grape marc and coffee grounds. Perfect elastic texture. Actually not that sweet.

Finish

Coffee grounds again, minerality, woodiness and astringency build up (as expected) with damp black wood, various nut shells, broken branches after the rain, black tea with something mentholated (shiso ?). Distant echoes of black fruits keep it fresh, with dried cranberries but it's still hugely stone-y and dry after a good 30 minutes.
squaadgras scored this whisky 92 points
03 May 2016 6:20 pm
- Nose
  
  94 94
- Taste
  
  93 93
- Finish
  
  92 92
q-runa scored this whisky 92 points
19 Feb 2016 12:48 pm
- Nose
  
  92 92
- Taste
  
  93 93
- Finish
  
  92 92
Bram84 scored this whisky 91 points
01 Jan 2016 11:27 pm
- Nose
  
  90 90
- Taste
  
  91 91
- Finish
  
  91 91
Ben87 scored this whisky 93 points
24 Dec 2015 11:45 am
93 points. Topwisky! All flavors are very nice in balance. Sample of Oogadal.

Nose

Baked apple, cinnamon, orange, dried fruits (dates, figs, prunes, blueberries), coffee, little leather, almond nuts, mocca, cocoa, toffee, honey, raisin cake, roasted cane sugar, (cereal) biscuits. (Fantastic nose.) (93)

Taste

Orange (Pim-biscuits), cinnamon, ginger biscuits, dried fruit (dates, figs, prunes, blueberries), black tea, black pepper, little leather, roasted cane sugar, bread pudding, almond nuts, toffee, honey, cocoa, raisin cake, syrup. (Sweet, bitter, fruity, dark, ...) (94)

Finish

Orange, cinnamon, ginger, wood, coffee, little tobacco, little leather, little black perper, walnuts, mocha, toffee, black chocolate, raisin pie. (Long and bitter-sweet) (92)
Peter(TTMC) scored this whisky 93 points
25 Oct 2015 12:31 am
- Nose
  
  93 93
- Taste
  
  95 95
- Finish
  
  93 93

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