Glen Scotia 15 Year Old Campbeltown Scotch Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- This episode, I review a 15 year old Campbeltown Scotch from Glen Scotia.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Welcome to Glen Scotia 15 Year Old Campbeltown Scotch
01:35 - The struggle is real!
02:58 - About the Glen Scotia Distillery
03:55 - Tasting the Glen Scotia 15
06:41 - Does water bring our the sweeter notes?
07:50 - Would I buy the Glen Scotia 15 again?
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Glen Scotia rocks !!! one of MY FAVORITE ! Great distillery and great taste also great price on . Good to listen the review from you . Also it is nonchill filtered and non coloured -- the best distilleries for me .
Great to hear from a Glen Scotia fan. Cheers!
Glen Scotia Victoriana is a must from them... Love it
I will add that to my list. Thanks!
Working on my first bottle of this, me and my friend love it, now one of our favorite scotch whiskeys.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Cheers and enjoy!
Hallo Kevin. Great Video. The Glen Scotia 10 peated ist for me a great Dram for starting the peated range. Take Care, and best regards vom Germany, Manni 👍👍😀😄
Hi Manni! Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers!
For me, adding a few drops of water into glen scotia 15 really make a huge difference. It will become much more fruitier and more vanilla while less woody bitterness and spiciness. Btw, also from Campbeltown, kilkerran 12 definitely worth checking out. Cheers!
Thanks for the Kilkerran 12 suggestion. I’ll add it to my list. Cheers!
I wanted to add a Campbelltown scotch to my collection. Could not find Springbank for months! Live in CA. Found this at Totalwine and enjoying it. I get what you mean about the dryness in the finish. But glad to have it on my shelf!
Wow, Springbank was hard to find in California? That's weird. I used Total Wine as one of my main stores and also K & L Wine when necessary. The Whisky Shop is a great Scottish shop in SF that sells a lot of whisky and many other items. I miss that place. Cheers!
Great review Kevin. This is really an interesting dram. Once i heard, that it was finished for 2 months in Ex-Oloroso casks. But i'm not sure if that's true. Cheers, mate.
I read something like that too, but nothing official. Cheers!
I just picked this up as my birthday present. My first Campbeltown whicky. Ohh it is goood. so much butterscotch. It is wonderful and sweet.
Butterscotch is a great note. Happy Birthday!
@WhiskyRiffs since covid it is almost the only note I can smell or taste. That and the peppery or the woody popsicle stick flavour. It is hard to find anything else.
I'm so sorry to hear about COVID affecting your senses. I hope they all returns to 100 percent.
I've been wanting to purchase this whisky for a while and just recently did....for excited to try it....Springbank 10 is one of my favourites but has become quite pricey. Cambletown!
Springbank has great expressions, but I can't seem to find any of them in my typical shops - they're all out of stock. I have a Springbank 15 in my cabinet that only has a dram left in it. Maybe I need to do a quick episode about it. Cheers!
Just finished off mine yesterday with friends. Oh my, it was an interesting/strange whiskey for me 😁
For me in order of intensity it was spicy, kitchen salt, (rotten) seaweed, leather, seawater, fermented fruit, a bit of malty sweetness behind all those heavy notes. Believe it or not the last 1/3 of the bottle actually became a bit dry smoky on the front. It was a pleasant surprise.
It is a good quality whiskey but for me just a bit all over the place tbh. For my taste it was similar to Bunnahabhain 12 but less balanced, more all over the place with flavors 😁 and ofc less fruity. Basically it tasted like a heavy storm on the beachside
Thanks for your notes, Grobee. I’m still not finding a clear path to enjoying this expression - it’s jumbled for me as well.
I’ve had no whisky while in Italy the past two weeks (but plenty of great wine), so I’m curious how my palette reacts to Scotch again. Cheers!
Kevin good job. I like Glen Scotia , good whisky .Gaumarjos ( cheers in georgian) !
Thanks for the language lesson! 😊
@@WhiskyRiffs : )
I bought my bottle for the same reason. It was the first time I'd ever seen a Campbeltown bottling. Everybody is raving about Springbank, which is not available in my area. My understanding is that the Glen Scotia 15 is aged in American Oak (Bourbon) barrels and then finished for a couple of months in oloroso barrels. I got vanilla galore and biscuit, so 'Nilla Wafers. Yes on the woody, oak flavoring. I like it. Most of my collection is either distinct sherry/port cask or peated. This would rate as one of my light, sweet whiskys. It fills in a slot in my collection.
Dang it, Kelly! Now I want 'Nilla Wafers. But I'm in Assisi, Italy at the moment and I'm sure nothing like those are around. But I did get two different flavors of Jammie Dodgers today, so… winning? ;) Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
So, you've walked into your local bottleshop to pick up something on order & you've walked out with the GG & GS15. You're not the first to have done that haha and wont be the last, and certainly could have done a lot worse. Nice choices, I enjoy them both too.
Thanks for relating to my "problems" with shopping for whisky. ;) Cheers!
Just finished my bottle last week, the last time I tasted it I could get a really strong liquorice taste, which I never got when drinking the rest of the bottle
That’s why I love whisky: even a bottle that you think you know can surprise you. Cheers!
My nephew and his wife just bought me the 25 year for my bday. I will let it sit for a few years and see if it appreciates in value. I will buy another bottle to drink soon.
You have more control than me and very nice relatives! I open every bottle I own and just sip slowly on the ones that are more rare. Cheers!
@@WhiskyRiffs I enjoy your channel. Just got back from Edinburgh Scotland a couple of weeks ago. It was my 50th bday destination selection. Went to Islay for 2 nights. Can't wait to go back. Slainte mhath!
@@mpyle27 Well, Happy 50th Birthday Mark! That’s a great way to spend it. Slàinte mhath!
Glen Scotia is the only Campbletown Single Malt available in Ohio.
US distribution of Campbeltown expressions is not great. Thanks for letting me know about Ohio. Cheers!
I’d love to see some others added to Ohio outside of Campbletown, Springbank being one.
Good morning. I haven't tasted this whiskey but I have a bottle of Glenmorangie finish Cognac. The entry in the mouth is pleasant and quite greedy but after 15 seconds a not very pleasant sour flavor arrives. I admit that for 75€ I expected better. Cheers 🍸
Thanks for sharing your experience. Cheers! 🥃
The maturation is: most of the maturation period refill bourbon casks, then about a year in first fill bourbon and finally 4 to 6 weeks in ex sherry casks. Very nice whisky
I agree, Aswin. Cheers!
Great review, Kevin! I picked it up today for an upcoming tasting. (I was trying for a Springbank but to no avail in my NY area). I'm just curious where you got the 'no added color' from? I've read and saw another vid (GWhiskey) that claimed it was colored. The box says 'American oak'. Would they typically include 'charred' or 'xbourbon' if it was? I'm not sure new or non charred oak alone could render the deep amber. I'm probably completely off. Cheers!
Thanks, Phil. The Glen Scotia 15 page states, "Unpeated and matured in first fill bourbon and re-fill American Oak casks." It's a bit ambiguous, but I'm guessing that the "re-fill" ones are still bourbon casks. The Glen Scotia 25 is natural color, so I assumed the 15 was as well. GWhisky is probably right. Cheers!
@@WhiskyRiffs Thanks Kevin! I was hoping you were right. Good catch on 're-fill' casks (not included on label/box). I'm more a bourbon guy but from my light scotch research it's becoming a thing to point out 'all natural' and makes those who don't, suspect. I get it doesn't impact taste but the real color is part of the experience and story of every whiskey imo. I wonder in the next 5-10yrs we'll see an end to coloring? Cheers!
@@philc1884 The marketing people at the big corporations will always want to manage the color consistency. Bourbon tends to get dark so quickly (2-3 years), coloring isn't high on their priority list. But Scotch at 10+ years is a different story. Cheers!
@@WhiskyRiffs Perhaps, but I think because of social media and the amount of easily accessible information that marketing (and PR) are paying closer attention understanding that consumers know more about their products than ever and want transparency and additive free products. And yes bourbon doesn't need any help because of charred barrels. Nevertheless it is ilegal to use any coloring if you want to call it bourbon. Cheers and good luck in Europe! I hope you continue to make vids!
@@philc1884 Thanks, I have no plans to stop making videos. Cheers!
I struggle with this bottle. It is undoubtedly very oaky, not sweet and actually tannicly drying like you say. I like it well enough if I let it rest decently with a little water after pouring. That being said, I can't really say I intend to replace my bottle because Victoriana is basically the same price, and its one of my all time favorites. I can't justify buying this over that.
That's a great way to describe the process of whisky selection. Even if I enjoy a bottle, do I like it more than other favorites at a similar price point? Most of us have limited budgets and this is a solid decision path that I've used often. Cheers!
a really very good whisky
I agree wholeheartedly. Cheers!
It has color added. On my bottle there is info "mit farbstof" :(
Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not sure where I read that it was natural color. I wish all countries required that type of information to be added to the bottle.
Not that a bit of caramel coloring is such a big deal, but I don't like to spread misinformation. Cheers!
A particularly interesting tasting: I've never experienced a schizophrenic nose! And having ridden the toetraps to the pavement twice in the past five years, I'm quite concerned for the welfare of purchases left to the mercy of panniers. Take care, Kevin. Whisky will not go well with road rash. (ouch!). Slainte`.
I’m always careful on my ride home when I have precious cargo like whisky. 😆 Cheers!
$74 at TotalWine in San Jose!
Yep, it’s $74 at Total Wine in San Francisco too, but I’d have to pay for delivery (and a tip). So I paid the extra $25 to my closer place, The Whisky Shop. ;)
@@WhiskyRiffs You must not drive?
@@DileepB I do drive, but haven’t owned a car since I moved to San Francisco 8 years ago. I have an e-bike for getting around the city when it’s too far to walk. 😉
@@WhiskyRiffsi can’t imagine.