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Spirit Name:
Spirit Type:
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Glen Grant "Major's Reserve"
Single malt
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Score:
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ABV:
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40%
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Region:
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Speyside, Scotland
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Body:
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Medium
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Intensity:
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Medium
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Texture:
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Smooth
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Balance:
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Good
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Best served:
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Mixed
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Theme(s):
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Bitter, spicy, peppery, immature, mushroom, wet cardboard, bark, nutmeg, cocoa, dried apricot, burnt toffee
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Summary:
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Tainted with immaturity, this whisky struck me as something that would be a decent mixer or perfect from grandma's top secret biscuit (biscotti in my case) recipe - not a sipping whisky in my view.
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Blind tasting notes:
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Nose: Zesty lemon meringue
with shavings of citrus peel and cereal notes hit the nose with peppery papaya.
A mild gust of immature spirit taints the nose a little. Wet cardboard and
mushrooms develop as the whisky rests. Now that’s an old memory – packing boxes
of mushrooms in the supermarket fridges while I was an undergraduate! There’s
something fungal about this whisky, immature but not necessarily youthful because
it is a tad lethargic.
Taste: Immediately
bitter and spicy, that peppery fungal note on the nose excites the taste buds
but then fizzles off leaving wet bark, nutmeg, cocoa and dense burnt toffee. There
is not much else that resembles anything in nature, except the bitter bite of
alcohol. This is young whisky in my opinion, cheap whisky.
Finish: Burnt
sugars linger as intensifying spiciness sweeps away whatever fruit softness
began to develop on the palate – just as that fruit (dried apricot etc)
develops, it is swept away by the spiciness which leaves a dry wood finish.
Would I want another dram of this? No.
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Likes:
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Price
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Dislikes:
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The general character struck me as immature and, well, "cheapish"
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Price:
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$40 (Aus)
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