Glendronach 12-year-old Sherry

Overall rating: 90.67/100
votes: 59

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glendronach
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Previ Import
Stated Age: 12 years old
Casktype: Sherry Casks
Strength: 43.0 % Vol.
Size: 750 ml
Barcode: 5010095564001
Added on: 12 Oct 2015 8:33 pm

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€ 350,00

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Whisky Reviews for Glendronach 12-year-old Sherry

14 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 90.67 points

wisekycourse scored this whisky 92 points
28 Dec 2018 7:29 pm
an "old" Glendro in 75 cl.

Nose

sherry, but old sherry, and candied fruit
strong wood
soybean oil, mold
intense and warm nose

Taste

the soaked wood, spices to potentiate the scents
sherry, ie fruits cooked, macerated and maderized, varied but very strong, raisin, tangerine, cooked orange and caramelized zest
a little old leather and his dust sofa
a little meaty in return, sublime

Finish

medium to long with an alternation of woody and candied fruits !!
Master Quill scored this whisky 86 points
15 Nov 2011 11:18 pm

Score is for a bottle from around 1985 (Import: Previ Brescia)
sagara-kun scored this whisky 87 points
10 Jul 2019 10:12 am
Tasted in f2f with the 8yo bottle right.
Very good but a bit too animal, drying.

Nose

Camphor red fruit. Walnuts, gooseberry, oily leather.
Strawberry. Tomato leaf.

Taste

Walnuts, licorice, anise, noble wood. The medicinal is quite present. Smoked black tea (lapsang souchong), under wood.

Finish

Sweet finish on leather, meat.
Ivynor scored this whisky 91 points
26 Apr 2019 9:28 pm
If all Glendronach 12 years old today could look like this ...

Nose

92 92

Immediately sherry, large aromatic scale, on the leather, a slightly meaty side. Then come the cooked plum, the spices, and a lot of nuts. Trace of dark chocolate.
Very greedy and well balanced.

Taste

92 92

Ultra easy, we could drink liters. Exceptional balance between sherry and exotic fruits: leather, white peach, cherry plum, passion fruit, mocha, dark chocolate, cooked plum, walnuts ... wow.
The whole remains more elegant and the 43% are perfect.

Finish

90 90

Quite effective despite the 43%, a little more withdrawn. On mocha, nuts, spices ...
RareMalt scored this whisky 91 points
31 Dec 2018 1:28 pm

The version i had was from 81/82 and had a darker red foil around the cork.
St. Pauli scored this whisky 90 points
20 Nov 2016 3:21 pm
Quite a powerful dram! It's one of those whiskies they can't make anymore, as these high quality casks are not available anymore (or if they are, there are extremely rare...).

Nose

Very intense! Wax, a little bit of caramel fudge, very sweet and syrup-y. Dates, dark cherry, prune but also leather, stock (maggi), sulphur sticks, dark chocolate, wood smoke.

Taste

Very syrup-y and intense again, but with a pleasant spiciness that makes me think of ras el hanout. Futher: rancio, Dutch appelstroop, prunes, cherries, tobacco, milk chocolate, leather and cinnamon. It's this superb whisky coming from the good old sherry butts/puncheons.

Finish

Long and spicy, with a pleasant combination of sweet and sour. Various dried fruits, appelstroop, pepper, leather and tobacco.
stefsel111 scored this whisky 92 points
23 Oct 2016 9:30 pm
Very nice dram, very mature whisky for the 12 years and what a great body for this ABV... unbelievable and surprising at the same time :) Typical Glendronach Profile also...
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dram-drinker scored this whisky 94 points
30 May 2016 10:37 pm
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dram-drinker scored this whisky 94 points
30 May 2016 10:36 pm
It's a perfectly balanced whisky - the sherry influence is kept just on the right level. Excellent!

Nose

Rich, fresh, dried fruits, raisins, sherry, meaty, ham, old books - also little citrus and tropical fruits, toffee - Great!

Taste

Superb wood notes combined with a perfectly reluctant sweetness, lots of dried fruits and ham notes, little bit of orange liquor, oily and smooth.

Finish

Long and smooth, coffee and toffee notes, actually no bitterness at all
goran scored this whisky 90 points
20 Jan 2016 11:02 pm

From Whiskyfun:

Glendronach 12 yo (43%, OB for Previ Brescia, sherry casks, early-mid 1980’s) Colour: coffee. Nose: very dry at first nosing but soon to get both very herbal (aromatic herbs) and animal. Quite some thyme and rosemary, lovage, balsamico and soy sauce (or even Japanese oyster sauce). Goes on with huge notes of oxtail, game, lots of fresh parsley… Truly amazing, I love it! No sweetness whatsoever, except for maybe Smyrna raisins and old armagnac. Beautiful.Mouth: oh yes, we’re in the same territories. Starts on unsugared coffee but also oxtail (not mixed, eh), soy sauce, salted liquorice, balsamic vinegar again, a little bitter caramel, bread crust… We do have a certain sweetness now (roasted nuts, pecans, fruitcake) but it’s still beautifully dry and meaty globally. Keeps going on with reduced beef sauce, gravy, notes of Madeira… A huge personality. Finish: maybe a tad short but superbly liquoricy, salty and coffeeish, with alos notes of kirsch and plum eau-de-vie. State of the art! 92 points (would have been even higher with a longer finish – and thanks, Luc!)

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