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It is of medium viscosity and its bouquet is medium intense. I have flavors of raisin syrup, nuts, plum wine, and caramel. It is of medium complexity. Very sweet in taste. The alcohol is well integrated and has a relatively light body.

Dessert, dry, enveloping, rich. Dark chocolate, raisins, prunes, burnt caramel, and again raisins. Strongness is not felt behind this abundance of taste and dryness

Wonderful color. The port seems to be making itself felt. Oily drops on the glass. You can smell the port straight away. Very intense and fruity. There are cherries, wood and lots of alcohol. Strong barrel notes over time. Hey, he's moving in. Extremely strong, drove the saliva into my mouth. But it remains very aromatic. In terms of taste, sweetness takes a back seat, makes room for the wood aromas. My mouth is a bit furry, it was so strong when it started. But I don't want to dilute it. Quite a long finish with lasting wood and delicate vanilla. Really good!

15 years in the former Tawny Port Pipe - what can we expect? Tawny Port is a multi-faceted category of sweet wine from the Douro Valley, which has been matured in the pipe for at least two years, often significantly longer. As the storage time increases, the color of the port changes from deep red to light blonde gold - tawny, in fact - due to oxidation. Characteristic of the taste are dried fruits and woody-nutty aromas, the older the more intense. You can also find notes of chocolate and a wide variety of (citrus) fruits. Could go well with the light and fruity Glengoyne distillate.

22.5/22.5/22/22

As far as I know this was matured exclusively in a vintage 77 tawny port cask and that vintage produced top notch ports and tawnys. From that era you expect a have high fruit concentration with very low acidty. A tawny cask of that quality is likely a Noval, Taylor or Sandeman. Most others carry traits and have very nutty profiles which this doesn’t.

expensive? hell yeah delicious? hell yeah must buy? idk. maybe.

Tasting: November 2021

Had it a few times to reflect the mood of the day, but this whisky just stays very good (especially considering it's 15 years old). However, the actual Glengoyne character is no longer really recognizable. Lots of chocolate, sweetness, dark fruits, a nice dessert - a true unicorn of this quality... I give it a fair 91 out of 100 points. July 2022: Picked up the Glengoyne again today and an update is needed. The whisky is improving, especially in terms of taste. I now get a whopping 92 out of 100 points.

A rather difficult whisky to analyze. I expected something more from the aroma, but the taste brought real bliss! With water, the taste is pleasantly revealed and goes to the maximum of its capabilities. Ideal Fortress: ~51 22 24 22 22

Really sweet, but not cloying. Very gourmet in style.

Unfortunately nice! Intensive port maturation without looking superimposed! On the contrary: a balanced drop of the highest quality!

Really great and exciting, you can tell that an extraordinary port barrel was involved, as well as a really good swimmer who doesn't collapse even with a good shot of water, but rather brings another possibly even better enjoyment experience. I could still buy a bottle, but unfortunately the framework data is not enough for me. But it's good to be able to try the sample.

superb "different" nose.at first, strong oak, but letting it rest for some minutes, it gets frutier and very pleasant. exploding in the mouth, it is kinda sherry-like, but without the typical px or oloroso notes. Dark red fruits, perfect balance. Finish is equal, a little dream!

STRONG!

Spices, tequila (salt and lime), figs with pepper, viscous and dark plums wrapped in grape leaves. Georgian pastille.

Really good. The port cask adds a special touch, but I like a "classic" sherry cask much better for GG. 86-90 – Wow, really good one, needs a bottle

Chic glengoyne. Not worse than their brothers in sherry barrels. Very rich in all aspects, despite the age of 15. You can sit with this for hours. Balance sheet 23.Total 90.5-91.5

I tasted it as part of a tasting kit. For me the clear winner although all participating single casks have been well chosen. This has been by far the best Port Cask matured whisky I ve tried in my 30 years of whisky drinking. I am not that good in descriptions but what I can say this has a perfect maturation. The smell and taste just blows you away, fruity plum raisin fig all over the place. Its been a really generous cask which lets you expect a lot older whisky. You could worry it will overwhelm the Glengoyne whisky character. To make it short, it does not. The taste is a great mix of distillery and cask. Its perfect like it is. it does not need water, actually it does not take water very well in my view but with its smootheness it does not need it anyway. The finish is quite long for a 15 year old and very complex. This is a dram that gives you a diverse and fascinating expierience. WOW. I can hardly wait for my bottle to be delivered. If it were not as expensive I would probably buy a few more bottles. Anyway its a whisky you should at least taste once in your life.

A really tasty whisky. I would have typed it a lot older blindly. The sample was fun. But it won't be a large bottle. With its over 200 € it is too expensive for me.

Splendid. There is nothing wrong with this malt. An unclouded, mouthwashing pleasure

A very nice tawny port. The port comes out brilliantly, but for me, it's a bit far from legendary. Smooth and drinkable, the alcohol could be better integrated. Glengoyne at its best? I don't know, for lack of other Glengoynes. It's enjoyable; a little water makes the whisky smoother, even slightly waxy. My only criticism: the alcohol isn't optimally integrated.

Awesome nose, the barrel played great and gave a lot of whisky. The characteristic features of the aged port are very clear. Intense, sweet, open and vibrant, classically balanced whisky. Thick and dark in the glass like herbal liqueur, it can be practically chewed

Splendid. There is nothing wrong with this malt. An unclouded, mouthwashing pleasure.

Acetone, furniture polish, bourbon-esque vanilla, glove leather, Spanish wine spicy

For me, this is the best port cask-aged malt I've ever had in my glass. There's nothing like good old casks (here, from 1977, according to R. Hughes—so port had been stored in them for almost 30 years beforehand) instead of the increasingly popular "seasoned casks." Intensive maturation without being overpowering. The alcohol is perfectly integrated, requiring no water. An exciting aromatic profile. Top-notch!

CASK OF THE MOMENT: 15YO SINGLE CASK NO. 38 £190.00 70cl 55.6% Vol The Glengoyne "Cask of the Moment" is a unique series of single casks selected by the Distillery Team. Each bottle is hand drawn from the cask housed within the Distillery Shop. The label is signed by one of our team and carefully applied to each bottle. This particular "Cask of the Moment" is somewhat special as it was chosen by our viewers who joined Robbie Hughes, Gordon Dundas and special guests for a rare live cask whisky tasting from Facebook and YouTube on the 28th August 2020. On the evening viewers were invited to vote for which of the four single cask whiskies, selected by Robbie Hughes should be the next Glengoyne "Cask of the Moment". The winning cask that prevailed on the night was a Port Pipe. Filled in January 2005, aged 15 Years Old this whisky is extremely rare as not many distilleries fill Port Pipes. The depth of colour from this whisky is outstanding and fantastic on the nose.

Impressions after the first 2cl of a 10cl sample: At first cautious, but then a strong, heavy and full nose with the usual suspects with dark, red and sweet fruits. The fruits are followed by chocolate and, after a while, a mixture of herbs. Slightly fresh on the nose. The taste repeats the aromas with red fruits, chocolate with a high cocoa content, oak and tanine are discreetly noticeable, again the herbs, dominant here Maggiekraut, dry for me, not sweet. Tingling accompanies the impressions, which has a disruptive effect on my taste buds. Long, dry, spicy, dry and fruity finish and that annoying tingling again. With water, I find it much more pleasant in the nose, in the taste and in the finish. The tingling and thus the disturbing influence disappears, the notes are easier to grasp for me, the malt seems more coherent. If I need water and time, then it's a really great malt.

A dream, one of the best cask port I've ever tasted. I could smell the glass for hours. And in my mouth, it's like an explosion of flavor. The finish is so incredibly intense and feels like it lasts forever. This is the stuff dreams are made of

Truly outstanding Glengoyne. A port maturation could hardly be better. Perhaps one of the best single casks of recent years from this distillery.

COLOR: Mahogany, extremely dark - an incredibly impressive Glengoyne - absolute top class - outstanding taste - you don't even notice the 55%, it's so aromatic and super integrated so that you can enjoy it pure - unfortunately, around 500 - 800€ are unrealistically high prices... unfortunately very cool and unfortunately also very expensive

Wow - what a perfectly mature port cask. Incredibly intense and aromatic sweetness. Thick, dark fruit compote and jam. A more than worthy winning barrel!

Color a little reddish, a little more intense than the Glengoyne 25. Scent: appears almost like sherry (less like port), fruit (pear?), Very little cardboard, tastes older than it is, grape, dark chocolate, oak spice, caramel, cream, sweetness, liqueur-like, raisin, beeswax, only needs a little water , round, creamy, mouthcoating, very long finish, dream whisky.

Great. Really great Glengoyne. I will look for it in the secondary market.