Whisky Tasting 11: The Glenlivet 12 Yr fm Speyside, Scotland

Speyside in the Mid-North East of the Scottish Highland (Between Inverness and Aberdeen) is the heart of malt whisky production. This land is dotted with numerous pot still distilleries. It is equivalent of Bordeaux to the French figuratively speaking. Some distilleries attempted to call themselves Glenlivet but one is allowed to be called THE Glenlivet. As a result a handful end up with the suffix instead. The Glenlivet 12 year old is the House Malt. Well known, popular and widely available. On the nose, a whaff of somewhat volatile alcohol with light apple, pear, grass, vanilla, flower and perhaps hay. This light to medium bodied whisky is quite feminine and fragrant with a clean finish of oak and dark chocolate. An all round uncomplicated whisky suitable as a restoratif, aperitif or digestif. (83-85 points) Rated By Michael Lam of the Beverage Review

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[BourneAccident]

Two things:

1. ARE YOU CRAZY!?! Spitting out perfectly good whiskey? I don't even spit out perfectly bad whiskey...

2. Get your self a good nosing whiskey glass... like a Glencairn with a watch cover... That glass sucks.... BUT... I'd drink that Glen out of the bottle if I had to...

[michaelyblam]

1. Not crazy - we taste too many samples thus we need to split. I split $200 wines and $200 whiskies. Tasting is different from drinking...

2. I find the plain entry Riedel wine glasses perfect to taste beer , wine and whiskies. They are in bulb shape which is most important to trap aromas and they do not have a kink at the rim. Marketers (including Riedel) like to brain-wash people to use certain glasses for certain things. The most important thing is clean glass of bulb shape and no rim.

[gbooster]

it is very flowery, and I like that, but it is so sharp.. I prefer something a bit more smooth.

[michaelyblam]

Totally agree. It's a lighter, volatile/pungent style malt. I also like some more robust/fuller body.

[zuhaibz5]

ralfy is better!

[larshagenDK]

wtf

[BourneAccident]

@FIGHT1FOR2CHANGE3 - My original comment is moronic... funny to some... but proof positive that I drink all that single malt that I can... thus the idiotic comment(s)...

[FIGHT1FOR2CHANGE3]

@BourneAccident what?

[BourneAccident]

@FIGHT1FOR2CHANGE3 - Proof positive that I don't spit out whisky!

[FIGHT1FOR2CHANGE3]

@BourneAccident lol your comment is moronic.

[supplementscene]

Hi Michael, try adding about 1/4 water to the whisky to open up the flavours, it stops the alcohol overpowering the flavour. Do what you want with your whisky, but can I have the Glenlivet you spat out (joke)

[asdefasdef1]

@michaelyblam doesn't spitting mean that you don't get the full finish taste from the whiskey, which makes spitting unsuitable to whiskey tasting?

[JoeSzilagy]

Sorry, but necessary or not, the spitting is gross- can't you just edit that split second out? Maybe use the camcorder remote, and press pause? Also, how is it that the other really well-known and well respected reviewers can swallow a tiny bit, plus wouldn't you need to swallow a bit to get the true finish? Finally I think you'd need to swallow several dozen tiny sips before you'd start feeling light-headed.

[GoodButEvil26]

@curleyteeth you have got to be kidding! It's the taste, you might as well just drink pure ethanol mixed with water otherwise!