Glendronach 1992-2019 | 26 Year Old Single Cask 8318 Whisky-Online Exclusive

Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 
Distillery Bottling Exclusive For Whisky-Online 70cl / 50.8%

A superb single cask bottling from Glendronach, distilled on 5 June 1992 and bottled in 2019 exclusively for Whisky-Online. Drawn from Pedro Ximénez sherry puncheon #8318 after 26 years of maturation, this exceptional Highland single malt was bottled at its natural cask strength of 50.8% ABV, without chill filtration or added colouring, preserving the whisky's full character and natural richness.

Personally selected by Wayne, Harrison and Tim for Whisky-Online, cask #8318 yielded just 233 bottles, making this a highly limited release. Matured entirely in a Pedro Ximénez sherry puncheon, it displays the classic Glendronach style at its finest, offering a luxurious combination of rich dried fruits, dark chocolate, espresso, treacle, polished oak and warming baking spices, balanced by vibrant sherry sweetness and a long, complex finish.

Released during the Billy Walker era, widely regarded as one of Glendronach's golden periods for single cask bottlings, this exclusive selection is an outstanding example of the distillery's celebrated approach to full-term sherry cask maturation.

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Tasting Notes

WhiskyFun.com Tasting Notes:

Colour: Amber/bronze.
Nose: Wow, a lovely mix of walnut stain, bitter chocolate, verbena, wormwood and a kind of sooty herbal combo. Thick, almost tarry layers of green Chartreuse, herbal ointments, sour cherries, black coffee, molasses, damp pipe tobacco and freshly made strawberry jam. Excellent stuff.
With Water: Carnations, vase water, bouillon stock, old leather, camphor, mint syrup and Dundee cake. Still extremely silky and clean.

Mouth: Nicely textured arrival. All on Brazil nuts, chopped dates, coffee and walnut cake, mint leaf, Guinness cake and chewing tobacco. There’s also praline, bitter mints, some very old balsamic and bags of fruity cough medicines. Did I mention liquorice? Well, there’s a fair few chunks of top quality liquorice in there too.
With Water: Cherry cough drops, bitter herbal extracts (Unicum etc...), some rye spice and things like mustard powder, potpourri, rolling tobacco, some extremely bitter dark chocolate and freshly made espresso. Wonderfully bitter in this continuing herbal and cough medicine-accented way.

Finish: Good length and rather peppery, salty, herbal and gently earthy.

Comments: I’m not always a fan of the PX Glendronachs, I normally prefer the oloroso casks. However, this one is a sure fire winner. Clean, precise, quite complex and manages to tread a very fine, well-balanced line with these bitter herbal notes that manifest in all the right ways and never become too tiring or cloying.
90 points.