Signatory Vintage ‘Cask Strength Collection’ Glenglassaugh 1976 (32 year old) 44.4%
Bourbon Hogshead 2383/ Dist: Dec 1976 Btl: Jan 2009/ Tasted: Nov 2010
Old, dusty and musty nose, with a perfumed thread grimly hanging on in there by its finger tips! It takes awhile but eventually some sugar coated orange can be detected along with some very mature honey, but I think we can safely say that rigour mortis has well and truly set in!
The palate is slightly better with soft, mature, delicate honey and some herbal notes; however the dusty, musty note hangs over it like the reapers scythe! And it ultimately shuffles off its mortal coil with a cardboardy finish. At £85 a bottle you would definitely feel like you’d been had if you bought this. Maybe if it had been bottled 10 years ago it might have just about been worth it, but not now!
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