The Glenturret Sherry Edition 43%
Tasted: Feb 2016
A nose of roasted, coffee’d baked fruit and herbal spirit notes. It certainly feels like it has some maturity and late notes of buttery oak.
The palate shows plenty of relatively straightforward baked fruit with a hint of orange and oak. Long with lingering baked fruit and citrus. In conclusion: A pleasant and mature whisky. However it doesn’t have enough complexity or flavour development to really excite.
The Glenturret Sherry Edition 43%
Re- Tasted: Sept 2018
The nose is rough and herbal. Oily with lanolin and again a dirty, herbal spice character. Hints of chocolate malt and very subtle dried fruit.
The palate opens with the dirty, dried fruit and lanolin. Watery and lacking depth with hints of treacle and non-descript spice on the middle. Short and spicy with a cereally finish.
The Glenturret Peated Edition 43%
Tasted: Apr 2016
A hard and slightly industrial nose with baked fruit, earth and dusty spice. With time a touch of balancing honey appears.
The palate displays a little more caramel oak but the focus is still on the hard as nails barley and industrial character. Slightly earthy and a little bitter on the middle. Good length, although a little spirity with lingering baked fruit, coffee and herbal spice. In conclusion: Not a style of whisky that I get on with and this doesn’t have enough balancing sweetness from either fruit or spirit.
The Glenturret Peated Edition 43%
Re- Tasted: Sept 2018
The nose is actually quite honeyed and sweet with mainland dry peat and a slight sulphur note. Hints of dried grass, tar and cereal appear. Again distinctly underwhelming!
The palate is vague and watery with subtle, earthy peat and honey. There’s a touch of granulated sugar attempting to lighten the character, but it’s not exactly the cleanest spirit in the world! In fact the dirtiness and the sugars clash horribly. Long and sweeter now with a touch of herbal menthol, spice and honey. The finish is the best part!
The Glenturret Triple Wood 43%
Bourbon, European Sherry, American Sherry
Tasted: Sept 2018
The nose is unsurprisingly hard and industrial with herbal spirit, lanolin and murky spices. Hints of rye, toasted oak, dirty coffee and with time some gritty vanilla. To be honest it really smells like a young rye and apart from a slight herbal character I can get no sherry influence at all.
The palate displays plenty of toasty Bourbon oak with hints of honey and lanolin. Sweeter than the nose and a little less industrial, but it’s still a bit spirit and hot. Rye-like finish with maybe a touch of dried fruit and chocolaty malt. Disappointing and eminently forgettable.
The Glenturret Triple Wood 44%
Bourbon, European Sherry, American Sherry
2021 Release/ Tasted: Mar 2022
A hard and industrial nose. Young with hints of barley, dried fruit, vanilla, earth and possibly some peat.
The palate is also hard and industrial and a touch on the raw side. Green fruit, barley and edgy sherried dried fruit follow. Some ‘Boubony’ oak attempts to inject some sweetness. Short, herbal, marc-like finish with a cloying sweetness. I see no change at ‘turret then!
The Glenturret 10 year old 40%
Tasted: Mar 2001
Quiet a heavy, sweet nose with a slight floral note.
Light and a bit evanescent with honey, vanilla, toffee and a touch of mint in the finish.
The Glenturret 10 year old 40%
Bourbon/ Tasted: July 2011
Hmm, not the greatest nose in the world. There’s a fair few cardboardy off notes here. Ok, if you ignore the rather pervasive dampness of the nose you can see that there is some charming, soft, fruity, grassy and cerealy spirit here.
The palate pretty much mirrors the nose. It doesn’t really go anywhere as the damp cardboard theme mutes any semblance of fruity spirit.
The Glenturret 10 year old Peat Smoked 50%
2021 Release/ Tasted: Mar 2022
The nose opens with some slightly sweet peat and meaty peat. Hints of violets, barley, pepper and plenty of savoury notes.
The palate alos opens with the sweet peat, followed by barley, honey and some meaty/ savoury notes. Drier peat and earth appears on the middle along with some slightly astringent spirit. Medium length, with a sweet barley and honey finish. Lingering earthy peat. In conclusion: This actually works well. The spirit isn’t young and raw for a start and has a good balance.
The Glenturret 14 year old 60.1%
Refill Sherry/ Tasted: July 2011
An edgy nose of nutty, earthy, slightly leafy sherry with some malty sweetness behind. Very clean and distinctly herbal. With time the honey aromas come to the fore. Rather pleasant.
The palate is quite soft although it does open with the drying tannins. It really doesn’t taste as alcoholic as it should, but it does have a lovely, fleshy softness with a good dollop of malty-sweet honey and a pleasant herbal bite. Good length with a sweet lemon finish before the tannins dry brings it all to an end.
With water the nose has become rather confected, but in saying that it has also become more expressive with more citrus aromas and hints of white chocolate coated raisins, white liquorice and a touch of burnt wood. The honey has become more text book Highland in character, i.e brittle but a touch of burnt caramel is beginning to encroach. The palate has on the other hand become simpler. Like the nose it is quite confected, overloaded with sugary sweetness, with more of the burnt caramel noticeable.
The Glenturret 15 year old 57.7%
First fill Sherry/ Tasted: July 2011
A very mature nose, quite surprisingly for its age. Full aromas of rich, moist Christmas cake, walnuts, toffee, dried fruit, sandalwood and polished leather with a herbaly, fresh edge. Yes it’s all cask, but this was produced from some stunningly good casks.
Quite a tannic start to the palate but those afore mentioned tannins are relatively soft. Very deep with dried fruit, mature prunes, walnuts and toffee. The alcohol seems quite well behaved until the mid palate when it ramps up the intensity and that’s all the fun over with.
With water the nose has again become very sugary, of the brown sugar persuasion. There is a lovely substrata of honey and now some burnt wood notes. The palate however has fallen apart in spectacular style, but I kind of had the feeling that it might do. After that wonderful nose the palate is a big disappointment.
The Glenturret 16 year old 58.4%
Oloroso (?) Sherry/ Tasted: July 2011
A very leafy and alcoholic nose with some gorgeous, liquor-like orange, macerated prunes accented with hints of clove, nutmeg, burnt chocolate and dark toffee. With time a lovely floral note appears but counterbalancing that, so does a slight fusty, mouldy note.
As expected the palate is all leafy sherry, bitter tannins and alcohol. As the alcohol passes some dark chocolate and sweet dried fruit remains.
Water makes no change to the nose, possibly there is a high toned granity edge. The palate on the other hand is just about holding together. Just like the 14 and 15 year old the palate has become simple and disappointing.
The Glenturret 28 year old 46.5%
Tasted: July 2015
A mature nose of earthy, lightly perfumed barley with hints of marzipan and toasted toffee. Some lightly oxidised fruit and creamy vanilla emerge along with a touch of cedar and herbs.
Initially it’s a little tart and citric on the palate but the sugar coated, mature barley and straw notes balance. Subtle and elegant with a touch of lightly oiled marzipan, grass and tongue tingling spice. Good mineraly finish with lingering vanilla and barley along with late notes of mocha and dark toffee. In conclusion: Its maturity is obvious from the onset, but it has not succumbed to father time as the citrus notes give it a lovely vibrancy.
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