Glenglassaugh

Glenglassaugh Cask Strength Collection 33 Year Old, Hogshead Cask, Cask #1548, 1979, Signatory Vintage, 44.2%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 40
Average Score
Avg 87
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Description

A malt distillery located outside the village of Portsoy in the eastern Highland region. Part of The Benriach Distillery Company group, it has been owned by the Brown-Foreman Corporation in the US since 2016. Despite a turbulent early history, it has become an well-established brand in recent years.

Overall Rating
87/100
Great87 / 100

Based on 1 published Maltiply review.

Maltiply Tasting Profile
Nose
Soft, fruity and sweet with honey, green apples, citrus, cut grass, pine needles, and toasted oak. Waxy, flinty, and soapy notes are present, along with pandan vanilla sponge cake, pepper, sage, gunpowder tea, and a faint perfume. Light toffee biscuit, peanut brittle, floral, and slight cinnamon also emerge.
Palate
Medium-bodied, savoury, and delicate. Flavors of liquorice, creamy malt, salted butter, wheatmeal biscuits, olive oil, beeswax, preserved lemon, anise, cardamom, honey, cucumber, celery salt, old musty oak, and leather. Waxy and creamy with natural oils and fats, a bit of lemon or old perfume, macadamia oil, rose petals, and mashed potato.
Finish
Anise liqueur, gunpowder tea, toasted cereal grains, salty, and herbal. Medium-long, grassy, and vegetal with black tea leaves left in the sun, white wine, and leafy greens.
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Whisky AuctioneerAuction Sold Price - Sep 8, 2025SGD 499.51
Cask type
Hogshead
Bottling
Independent Bottling - Signatory Vintage
Peated
N.A
Single cask
Yes
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
1548
Batch
N.A
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
N.A
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
230
Has box
Yes
Closure
Cork
Presentation
Tin
Series highlights
Cask Strength Collection
Historical context
N.A
Special release
N.A
Allocation
N.A
Nose
Soft, fruity and sweet with honey, green apples, citrus, cut grass, pine needles, and toasted oak. Waxy, flinty, and soapy notes are present, along with pandan vanilla sponge cake, pepper, sage, gunpowder tea, and a faint perfume. Light toffee biscuit, peanut brittle, floral, and slight cinnamon also emerge.
Palate
Medium-bodied, savoury, and delicate. Flavors of liquorice, creamy malt, salted butter, wheatmeal biscuits, olive oil, beeswax, preserved lemon, anise, cardamom, honey, cucumber, celery salt, old musty oak, and leather. Waxy and creamy with natural oils and fats, a bit of lemon or old perfume, macadamia oil, rose petals, and mashed potato.
Finish
Anise liqueur, gunpowder tea, toasted cereal grains, salty, and herbal. Medium-long, grassy, and vegetal with black tea leaves left in the sun, white wine, and leafy greens.
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