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Glen Moray Portwood Finish 25 Year Old. Speyside, Scotland. ABV: 43.0%. Tasted at Whisky Live 2014.
Righto – so we’re here at Whisky Live 2014. Over 100 whiskies on offer. No, I’m not going to attempt to taste them all (although that does sound like a mighty challenge). Instead I’m going to take a slightly different approach to the day’s tasting – instead of writing up tasting notes for every single whisky I sampled on the day, I’m going to make a few notes about a particular distillery (in this case Glen Moray) and then decide which of their selection I preferred.
The reason for this approach is that I actually sampled 28 different whiskies on the day, but most were only 5-10mL tastings. In my opinion (and particularly for my somewhat immature palate), it is incredibly different to get to know a whisky off such a small sample. I also didn’t want to spend the entire day furiously typing notes onto my phone for all 28 whiskies, I wanted to actually take it all in and enjoy the day. So I made a few brief voice memos afar trying each table and have reflected that here.
So onto the Glen Moray tastings…
Sampled: Glen Moray 10 year old, Glen Moray 16 year old & Glen Moray 25 year old Portwood Finish. I think the Portwood Finish was definitely the pick of the three. It has a deep ambery colour, a sweeter sort of taste. A very different nose to the other two – the 10 year had a funny sort of nose…fuck this is going to get difficult to describe as the day wears on. All three were quite thin tasting, quite thin on the palate and all had quite a light, short finish – but the 25 year old was definitely the pick.