Description
This Glendullan 38 Years Old was distilled in 1975 and bottled in 2014 from European Oak casks at natural cask strength. There are just 3756 bottles available.
Tasting Notes
| Nose |
| Distillery: Cautious at first then profound; the light, sharp top notes are of ripe melon and mango with a squeeze of orange juice. All very mellow, with a scented background suggesting perfumed hand cream and a shortbread-like cereal sweetness. Yeasty, waxy notes introduce pronounced ripe red apple skins and mint. It opens up beautifully with aromas of clean vanilla, a fruiterer's shop in summer, creamy toffee, oaty milk chocolate biscuits, clotted cream. Later a cranberry sharpness develops. |
| Taste |
| Distillery: Lightly oily and intense at cask strength, when there's a smooth, hot mouth feel with the sweet-sharp taste of ripe red apples or gooseberries, and the lingering sweetness of coconut. Rapidly it all becomes denser, and more coating. A creamy-sweet toffee note darkens to burnt caramel and the whole grows pleasingly charred and hints at a sappy, bitter edge. |
| Finish |
| Distillery: Medium to long, drying and warming, with a compelling residual light sweetness, fresh fruitiness and a trace of candle wax or sandalwood incense before late, soaring, pine resin and that irresistable drying conclusion. |