Ultimate Beverage Challenge 95 points - Spicy young ginger gives way to vanilla, black licorice, sweet smoke, and a touch of spearmint. Mellow and smooth on the palate with a marked minerality, it showcases fresh tropical fruit, sweetgrass, and brown spice anchored by a touch of smoke.
Ultimate Beverage Challenge 95 points - A heady mixture sea salt flake, lemon peel, and toasted oats introduce this complex and mature whisky. The palate seamlessly expresses toasted vanilla bean, crushed shell, and baked apple and finish with a subtle kiss of wood smoke that pleasantly resonates.
Wine Enthusiast 96 points - TOP 100 SPIRITS OF 2017 - This 12-year-old single malt was finished in casks that previously held Sauternes, the golden sweet wine of Bordeaux. Smooth and elegant, look for a honey hue and notes of vanilla and lemon cream on the palate, finishing with baking spice and a puff of smoke. Adding water unleashes more creamy vanilla and citrus.
Nose: Smooth and oily with notes of cherry compote, buttered granary toast, malt, custard and peach.
Palate: Sherried and thick with notes of sultanas, sticky toffee pudding, raspberry jam, Victoria sponge, custard and crème caramel.
Finish: Medium, with notes of cocoa, oak and just a soupcon of smoke on the very tail.
Ultimate Beverage Challenge 96 points - This delightful blend presents a ripe nose of baked banana and lemon tart. The palate is racy and fresh and recalls the earlier fruit flavors and adds honeyed oats to create a very accessible whisky pitch perfect for a high ball.
Ultimate Beverage Challenge 90 points - Enticing and bright nose - sandalwood, honey, apple blossom, and bananas foster come to mind. Honeyed and round, this fine whisky offers subtle tropical fruit and a touch of peat smoke which builds on the finish.
Wine Enthusiast 92 points - This blended Scotch, 'matured in deep-charred old oak casks' features intensely smoky aromas and flavors, although honey sweetness and mellow almond peek through. Golden in hue, with a silky feel.
Wine Enthusiast 93 points - Featured as a blend of Johnnie Walker's rarest whiskies, this Scotch billows with sweet cigar smoke from the very first sip. Underneath that, look for vanilla, oak and dry cocoa, finishing dry and spicy with cigar wrapper, allspice and clove, plus a mouthwatering saline note.
Wine Enthusiast 90 points - Bright topaz in the glass, this 12-year-old blend of over 40 whiskies has a pleasant fresh apple and vanilla scent. Polished, versatile and flavorful, look for creamy caramel and vanilla accented by dried orange peel and honeysuckle.
Wine Enthusiast 93 points - This amber blend of 15 whiskies, each aged at least 18 years, yields a mellow, balanced mix of sweet caramel, raisin and smoky notes, all lingering and pleasing. Serve chilled, possibly as a dessert pairing.
Scotland- A blend of single malt and grain whiskies from renowned distilleries in the Speyside, Highland, and Islay regions, expertly blended for a rich and rewarding taste!
Mint chocolate and walnuts envelop the palate like velvet, laying the foundations for rose, Turkish delight, and sweet Seville oranges.
Wine Enthusiast Higlands, Scotland ""Delicate notes of candied apple, light toffee and pear drops...nuances of rose petals, carnations and lightly toasted malt. The palate entry is grainy and moderately sweet; at midpalate there's a burst of red pepper backed by tastes of pears, peaches, mushrooms."
Wine Enthusiast 91 points - Smooth and mellow, like nuts drizzled with honey or Bit OHoney candy, with a light vanilla finish. Matured in Bourbon casks for 10 years.
Ultimate Beverage Challenge 93 points - Aromas of freshly baked seven grain bread mix with slight undertones of dried fig and raisin from the oloroso cask. In the mouth the interplay between tangy dried fruit and roasted earth is balanced. The finish is long and robust with endless complexity.
Wine Enthusiast 96 points - Delicate and complex, this newly released Scotch boasts scents of maple sugar and spice, and unfurls on the palate with a distinctly floral start that evolves into creamy vanilla, honey, sarsaparilla and baking spice.
The Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve is The Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch Whisky that has been selectively finished in Caribbean Rum barrel. By bringing rum barrels and Scotch together for the first time in our history, we have brought some bold and tropical Caribbean flavours to our traditional Speyside style.
Wine Enthusiast 96 points - Opening bouquet offers sedate fragrances of dried flowers and malted barley; aeration stimulates marginally bigger aromas of dried yellow fruit (baked banana), toasty oak barrel and still-vigorous spirit. Palate entry is succulent, honeyed and luscious; midpalate tastes of dates, figs, Smores, cocoa butter, nougat and dark fudge.
Wine Enthusiast 92 points - Look for a honey hue and super-fresh, bright orchard fruit aromas. The drying palate shows oak and vanilla, plus darker hints of espresso and clove. The finish is lifted by a pleasing hint of lemon cream pie.
Wine Enthusiast 93 points - Don't dilute this light, gentle Scotch too much. Enjoy the honeyed, fresh tropical fruit aromas and mouthwatering vanilla and almond flavors with a hint of smoke and spice on the finish.
Wine Enthusiast 93 points - Vibrant orange-amber color and a warm, citrusy scent. Expect lots of honey and caramel from the get-go, winding into an interestingly dry and lingering finish entwining leather, cocoa, coconut and ginger.
Wine Enthusiast 93 points - Allow a little time for the aroma to emerge, and a splash of water for maximum flavor. The reward is a thick caramel aroma and flavor, with mouthwatering spicy notes of clove, cassia bark and a hint of orange peel.
On the palate it's mature, easy going and full of bright speyside fruit with a clean and medium dry finish.AppearanceFullGoldenClear and brightAromaWell balanced oakSherry with a hint of citrus.