We go back to the small village of Rothes in Speyside for this next review.
This is the 4th Glenrothes I'll be reviewing here and a bit of a speciality as its been partly matured in an Octave cask - a smaller cask of app. 50liter capacity usually used for giving a whisky some more life e.g. if the whisky has spent its first years in a 'tired' cask.
If this whisky originally comes from a tired cask, I'll will not speculate into, but lets do the review and let the note and score speak for itself...
Glenrothes 1970 41yo 06.07.1079/21.09.2011 43,5% ex-bourbon cask + ex sherry octave#491630, 69 bottles by Duncan Taylor for Whisky Shop Dufftown
Colour is gold
Nose:
Vanilla and wood spices, mint leaves, oak, nuts, custard and demerara sugar, hints of perfume/soapy note
Taste:
Light, creamy, carletti sweet licorice, some herbal note, dried fruits and quite some natural caramel, bitter oak finish round it off.
Kind of a weird whisky to review, this one... as its certainly influenced by the larger wood contact it has had after spending time in the Octave cask... a bit too much wood character bestowed too fast upon this one, I think... but not bad whisky - not at all!
85/100!
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