Intro

Spirit of Scotland released their second batch of their Cask Strength, Single Casks at competitive prices recently. Today we’re having a look at Glendullan, a distillery not widely known yet it produces 3.7 million litres per year. However, most of it goes into blends for Diageo. This bottling is a 12 year old, bottled at 55.3% ABV.

Review

Tasting notes

The nose has a freshness to it, a bit of sour reminding me of green apples like Granny Smith. Pencil shavings are also present. A little bit of sweet vanilla tart notes are present intermingled with the pencil shavings.

On the palate we get more of the pencil shavings and some heavy roast coffee, a bit of the tart notes are presenting themselves in the finish but the taste is dominated by the wood notes.

Wrap up

I’m wondering if this cask was re-charred before refilling it and the char level was a bit too intense and therefore the predominant taste. I’m also not familiar with the Glendullan spirit, but I think it’s a quite delicate spirit, being overpowered a bit by the cask possibly.

Score: 82/100