Glenglassaugh Revival - Tasting Notes

Nose
Nuts, toffee, sweet, vanilla, orange, chocolate, burned wood, honey, plums, and also some new make notes in there.

Palate
Sweet, fudge, caramel, coffee bitter, honey, thick, walnuts, wood. On the palate also the new make tones in there, the dryness, alcohol, berry tones.

Finish
Caramel and the dryness and bit walnuts bitter follow in the finish through, medium long finish.

Score
Brought this bottle over to a friend for a taste and he had some lovely fudge, and must say that was a lovely combination... I think the fudge sweetness in your mouth gives it just that extra bit maybe. Find it lacking something, it does not feel balanced when tasting. While looking back the notes above you would say that it looks to be. But the tones coming through that taste a bit like new make don't please my palate very much sadly. Just am missing something. Therefor a 6 out of 10. Give it maybe some more years?

Glenglassaugh was closed in 1986, and started production again in 2008. The Revival bottling is the first whisky to be made after the reopening. It is matured in a mixture of 1st fill and refill bourbon caks, finished for 6 months in 1st fill Oloroso Sherry butts.

We found a little set while in Scotland last spring with peated spirit, fledgling (1 year old matured spirit), and the clearac (spirit). Curious to taste those soon, to see what the developments are due to maturation and in the difference of peated spirit and non-peated spirit.