Amazing sweet fruity smoky bacon delight. Looks quite dark and cask heavy but it isn't overpowered by the sherry cask. A tiny bit hot it might have benefited from 6 months or a year longer in the cask so the alcohol could be better integrated and reach legendary status, but maybe then it would have become too sherried and lost the bright peaty distillate notes - Anyway a tiny drop of water helps. This is a great dram and not one of the usual Indie secret Islay suspects - whispers are its a Lagavulin - usually rare as hens teeth there have been a few indie Lagas popping up recently - hope the trend continues.
In my YouTube Review this scored 5 out of 5 for Quality
The pinnacle of the Glendronach core range, the 21 Year Parliament, is a truly amazing dram. My review here: https://engineered.network/whisky/episode-22-glendronach-21-year/
Thank you Horny Pony for helping me try before I buy! (I since bought a bottle of this)
Some lovely ocean spray and subtle smoke on the nose. More of the ocean than the fire on the nose at least. Sweet upfront and then a little prickly, but beautifully done. Apricot jam which reveals freshly cracked black pepper, that smoothens into cured meats and honey. This dram gives a charcuterie board alongside a cigar. A taster is well worthwhile as this has certainly moved me towards buying a bottle.
I've actually been wanting to taste this so I can make up my mind to buy a bottle. When I found your site and saw it had this I immediately bought some tasting samples and absolutely loved it! Will definitely invest in a bottle