Bottle Details
SMWS Code
85.79
Distillery
Glen Elgin
ABV
57.1%
Age
14 Years
Cask
Ex-Bourbon Hogshead, 2nd Fill Ex-Sauternes Barrique
Vintage
2007
Region
Speyside
Flavor Profile
Spicy & Sweet
Category
Scotch
The whisky presents an inviting bouquet of orange blossoms, physalis, and peach yoghurt, leading to honeysuckle and impressions of young dessert wines. Secondary notes of rye bread spiciness, herbal teas, runny honey, and shoe polish develop, with water revealing additional complexity including bubblegum, white flowers, orchard fruits, underripe pears, quince jelly, sultanas, and vanilla sponge cake.
The neat palate is well-rounded and spicy-sweet, balancing herbal teas and wintergreen with oat biscuits, honeycomb, and soft waxes. Water introduces white tea, pine resin, stout beer, limoncello, and olive oil, adding further depth and intrigue.
The finish is lingering and complex, with the sauternes maturation contributing honeyed sweetness and subtle oak influence that carries through to a satisfying conclusion.
With a gorgeous initial nose, the Panel noted orange blossoms, physalis, peach yoghurt and honeysuckle at first, followed by further impressions of young dessert wines, rye bread spiciness, herbal teas, runny honey and shoe polish. A rich, spicy and sweet treat! With water we got bubblegum, white flowers, orchard fruits, underripe pears and flower honeys. We also found quince jelly, sultanas and vanilla sponge cake. The neat palate was surprisingly well rounded, with herbal teas and wintergreen balanced by oat biscuits, honeycomb and soft waxes. Some water revealed white tea, pine resin, stout beer, limoncello and olive oil. This was matured for 12 years in a bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a second fill ex-sauternes barrique.