Glen Scotia 15-year-old

Name: Glen Scotia 15-year-old
Brand: Glen Scotia
SKU: 62940
Rating: 84.69 (826 reviews)

Overall rating: 84.69/100
votes: 826

Whiskybase ID: WB62940
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glen Scotia
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Classic Campbeltown Malt
Bottled: 22.04.2015
Stated Age: 15 years old
Casktype: American Oak Barrels
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 700 ml 700 ml 750 ml
Bottle code: L4/112/15
Barcode: 5016840171218
Added on: 01 Jan 2015 9:56 am by djmaxliving

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€ 55.85

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Whisky Reviews for Glen Scotia 15-year-old

100 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 84.69 points

Moses scored this whisky 86 points
08 Oct 2018 12:42 pm
The PLV from this bottle won me over immediately. I think this whisky is traded way below the connoisseur's radar. I promise everyone who tries it a surprise. By the way: urgently with water

Nose

It already starts colorfully at the nose: sweet fruits, sour and slightly bitter grapefruit paired with a hint of menthol, you can smell the caramel with a little toffee. Always sweet and yet spicy and bitter. A big movie theater.

Taste

Hearty sweet mixed with vanilla and honey, it spreads throughout the mouth and brings you one
sweet jam emerges, which then becomes a little drier and also slightly peaty in taste. An amazingly full body for this age. It is even creamy. Impressive for such a younger malt. Brilliant !

Finish

Not very long, but he adds dark caramel cream and finishes with chocolate and brown sugar over butterscotch. Respect for the barrel selection. Masterpiece.
markjedi1 scored this whisky 88 points
01 May 2018 9:04 am
Outstanding Glen Scotia. What a discovery! Between 50 and 60 EUR, depending on where you shop. This is very fair for this tipple. Recommended!

Nose

OMG, what a grand nose this is! Loads of toffee and soft spices, but this nose is mostly dominated by all kinds of fruit going from Seville oranges, raisins and fresh figs to candied pineapple and dried apricots. It also has a milky side that I cannot quite define. And something dusty as if I am sitting in the attic. Lastly there is a candy-like sweetness and a touch of smoke. I really like this a lot.

Taste

It is a veritable flavor bomb on the palate! Quasi-creamy and very spicy, it arrives with quite a bit of oomph. Sturdy fellow, despite its 46%. Very spicy on ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Next to all the fruit from the nose, I also get some soft honey and barley sugars and again that dusty element that makes it somewhat old school and brings a smile to my face. Yes, you can easily call this complex. From the second sip forward it also has something syrupy, reminding me of rum. The smoke joins the fray, the oak gives it a bitter touch and the circle is complete.

Finish

The finish is medium long on sweet smoke with dark touches of sugar rich fruit and some cold coffee at the death.
WhiskyLovingPianist scored this whisky 85 points
22 May 2017 11:17 pm

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/the-loch-lomond-group/

Similar make-up as the 'Double cask' NAS - all-bourbon with a six month second refill sherry finish, though I believe there are bourbon refills used here also.

N: Refreshingly gentle & rather different from any contemporary whisky on the market right now. Sweet saline with an odd tadpole note [sure I've noted this before somewhere], a little heathery smokiness and a gentle aniseed funk.
T: A light & gentle oak character sadly under-represented these days - 15+ years of relaxed oak/refill joy.
F: Oaky, vanilla ice cream with the most desirable mild creamy sweetness without any ADHD antics, and again with that oak character that suggests there's more than 15 years of [patient] maturation here. The finish gets better and better. Everything is delivered to the front of mouth as Ibon [Mendiguren] so rightly points out.
C: ‘The Foz’ comes out with another epic sound bite: 'Benromach without the kick in the knee’. Its a 'close' experience. A really tasty and refreshingly different whisky to anything I’ve tried at Whiskylive 2017 this weekend. Theres no fragility here though the softness is its charm. I imagine it doesnt take too kindly to water. Fortunately for me, it was just right neat. And as for the tadpole reference, it was a note from that weird Glenalough: https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/71656. Who hasn’t eaten a tadpole or two in their time?

Scores a B[-]
Slàinte Mhath scored this whisky 86 points
30 May 2020 8:20 am
Believe it or not, Campbeltown has more to offer than Springbank. Glen Scotia has always been a bit under the radar, but it has a lot to offer as a distillery! The 15-year-old expression has an intriguing nose, featuring salted caramel, pastries and apricots. Porridge, honey and floral scent add to the complexity. Spicy, aromatic and increasingly cask-dominated, the palate is balanced out by subtle sweetness, bitter walnuts and a touch of arugula. Lemon balm, nutmeg and salt linger in the resinous finish. Almost like Clynelish 14, a singular malt with character.

RATING: 3.9/5.0 stars ≙ 86 pts → FIRST-CLASS [-]

Nose

87 87

Taste

86 86

Finish

84 84
Brunobaer1887 scored this whisky 86 points
31 Jan 2021 8:28 am
A great price-performance ratio, it was ordered as by-catch to avoid shipping costs and I have not regretted that.

First I smell candied nuts, in my mouth it tastes like the sweet cough syrup from my childhood with a herbal note, like an Underberg. A very pleasant companion, with whom you can probably spend a good evening

Nose

87 87

Taste

86 86

Finish

86 86
Likudi scored this whisky 85 points
30 Jan 2021 9:01 pm
Nose

86 86

Taste

85 85

Finish

84 84
dRambo scored this whisky 84 points
10 Nov 2017 11:37 pm
Nose develops very nicely - tender but fruity and complex, on the palate he is too weak and arbitrary - because I typed blindly on Glenfiddich 15

Nose

Chalk dust, shriveled apples, cooked pear, bacon rind (without smoke), sweetness, vanilla, cinnamon and clove, apricot, plum, beautifully overripe fruity complex

Taste

very fine bacon smoke, mint, scholadig-nutty oak, sweetness, apple slices with peel - soft - round - quite mild

Finish

grassy, malty, oily - becoming spicier, citric acid, medium-long - slightly mineral
MrDvorak scored this whisky 85 points
07 Jul 2021 2:10 pm
RATING: 85pts – |83 – 86 (B) → Good| — Not a “must”, but a nice-to-have.

Nose

86 86

The nose is pretty intense and spicy with notes of toffee, raisins, milk chocolate and gentle dried apricots.

Taste

85 85

The taste is full-bodied and pretty oily with notes of dates, raisins, old sugared honey and spicy ginger.

Finish

85 85

The finish is medium lenght and creamy with notes of red currant, walnuts, tobacco leaves and dark chocolate.
WiltChamberlain scored this whisky 89 points
18 Jun 2021 9:07 am
Nose

89 89

Taste

90 90

Finish

89 89
Koning scored this whisky 86 points
29 Nov 2020 8:24 pm
It's a more accessible whisky compared to the previous bourbon matured 'disco cow' official bottles I tried. It's richer but luckily hasn't lost it's mildly coastal edge.

Nose

84 84

An easy nose, malty and sweet. Quite floral with some fruits as well: citrus fruits, banana and maybe some strawberry too. Vanilla and a bit of coffee round it off.

Taste

88 88

Full of character. It's fruity with oranges, apricot and sour red currants. Also a bit oily and mineral, revealing some of its Campbeltown origin. The floral notes of the nose reappear together with some oaky spices.

Finish

87 87

Creamy, with croissants, vanilla, red currants, and nutmeg. Some coffee and dark chocolate. It's a bit salty/mineral too, and lingers with some tobacco smoke. Nice!

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