Tasting GlenAllachie 15 for the First Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I open a bottle of GlenAllachie 15 for the first time and let you know if I think it's one you should buy or avoid all together.
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It is one of my favourites. I don't think it gets the love it deserves, or rather it does seem to split opinion. For me, I agree with you, high quality and good value.
Does seem to be polarising. For me so far I have very much enjoyed it.
Let's talk about it less so its price will remain human
I like your reviews for the sincere passion that shines through but in general when judging a product that I love like whisky, wine or cigars I am more attracted by reviews that point out the defects than the merits, if they are all good we risk ending up bankrupt. If Glenallachie 15 is as good as you say, costing here in Europe around 80 euros I would think of buying a case of six bottles. With sympathy.
I hear where you are coming from. I am optimistic by nature so look for the positive over the negative mostly, but if you have seen many of my reviews you will know I do indeed call out when and where a whisky is lacking.
Over the years I have bought many bottles to learn and explore what is out there and what I like. Over more time I suspect my collection will shrink to a narrower variety as there are currently many bottles in my collection that I won’t replace when they are gone.
The GlenAllachie 15 is one however that will continue to be replaced.
I hope this helps, and thank for your connecting with me my friend 🥃
Awesome vid. Your face says it all really. Like seeing a man in nature at his absolute happiest.....
Thank you 😁
Great video! Well put together and great quality! I have just finished my 15yo and you are spot on, it just gets better and better... Enjoy the rest of the bottle, you are in for a treat!!
Thank you brother! I am trying to pace myself as I find I want to keep picking it up! Looking forward to how the bottle opens up 😊
Thanks for checking it out!
Love this one so much i bought a case...really! its that good for me.
That's proper whisky love! It's pretty amazing isn't it.
Thanks for the review. For me, the 12 is as good if not better. Cheers!
My pleasure Mark. I can absolutely see that too. I sort of see them as as good as each other, but they’re slightly different whiskies.
Looks like you opened a winner. Billy Walker is a magician when it comes to cask management. Thanks for the review!
Thanks for watching!
I've tried quite a few Glenallachie the last years...never disappointed...yet.
My favorite so far is the 10yo CS Batch 6
Yes I think I need to put that cask strength on my list!
@@McIntyresMalts I've had Batch 3,4,5,6 and 7, all of them are quite fantastic and all are different from eachother.
@@bluesmanen1 I have found batch 7 available locally, but haven't seen the earlier ones. Do you have a favourite batch?
@@McIntyresMalts As I said above, my gavorite Glenallachie, so far, is the 10yo CS Batch 6. I recently opened my batch 7, also really good. quite similar, but I personally prefer Batch 6
@@bluesmanen1 Thanks Mats, sorry for asking a silly question you had already told me!
Great video Wade but I couldn't tell if you liked this one or not could you be more clear please 😂 It's a brilliant feeling when you open up and taste a banger for the first time isn't it!
I'm not a massive sherry fan but when we did a vertical Glenallachie tasting I've loved nearly all of them. They do some awesome stuff at that distillery.
😂 Thanks Sertug! Yeah it's pretty great when this happens. This is why I wanted to do this series, not scripted or preprepared, just a genuine response to the experience I am having.
Typically I lean more towards Port influence, but when a sherried whisky is done well it goes down a treat!
Thanks for a fun video. It was great to dram along and revisit this favorite.
Glad you enjoyed it! Even better when you dram along!
What a great Review man, fantastic video and description of the GA 15, you describe and narrate it so well and in such an expressive way that it makes you want to have a bottle yaaa, congratulations for this great Review and hang on GlenAllachie
Thank you my friend, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been eyeballing this recently too.
Great review.
You’re like the Australian version of the Whisky Whereabouts channel guy
Thanks Cameron, I will check out his channel 😊
Excellent review Sir, enjoy +++
Thank you kindly, as you can tell I definitely enjoyed this one!
Such a great pour man. I have the 10YO CS to open soon 😀
I need more GlenAllachie in my life!
Great video Wade, for some reason I feel hungry now.
Haha thanks Wayne, that is an interesting outcome from watching the video! Did you get something good to eat?
Plum pudding is on my list as Is the glenallachie. A side note I flew home from Melbourne on the weekend and I had 23rd st SA whiskey on the flight. Never heard of them but it was enjoyable and unexpected. Interesting hybrid of whisky and bourbon.
@@wayne9124 I’ve been hearing good things about 23rd St! Have yet to try them.
Great video, very nice to see you enjoying the whisky! Recently bought the Glen Allachie 12, and enjoying it a lot. Would you say the 15 is an extension of the 12 or do you consider it a different type?
You can definitely tell they are related, but the 15 in my opinion doesn’t feel like an older 12 if that makes sense?
I have a 12 vs. 15 video coming soon 😉
@@McIntyresMalts Great, looking forward to it!
The 12 is better than the 15!
@@GWDH19 I have a video of the 12 vs. The 15 coming soon and which one I think is the better of the two
@@McIntyresMalts'm not sure anymore, the 15 did improve in the bottle.. Now the 15 smells older than the 12
I know this might sound crazy, but I prefer the 12yr to my 15yr bottle. My 15yr bottle is HOT. Not sure if it's just the batch I got or not. But I can see why the 15 is a well liked expression.
Yeah I recently watched your review on it Peter. May be a batch variant, mine is definitely not hot, and easy drinking for me. I will shortly release my video on the 12 vs the 15 and which one I think is the winner 😉
what if I say that 10 is even more high than 12. even more caramel and sweets!
@@kraken-s the 10 cask strength version?
@@McIntyresMalts yes.. cask version. Amazing and the best from GlenAllachie
@@kraken-s I just got a signatory vintage cask strength, 12-year-old GlenAllachie. Hopefully it’s amazing
2 weeks ago I bought the Glenallachie 12 and 15 for €42 and €65. Today the prices went up to €57 and €85 at that same website 😭. I'm afraid it's getting too popular..
Ouch, that’s a big increase. We are watching the same thing happen here in Australia too. Glad you scooped some up before the price went up
In the netherlands there is still a shop where you can have exactly 42€ for the 12 and 65€ for the 15. Maybe i should stock up on them XD, i loved Glenallachie 12 and 15 from the beginning, but for some reason i found other stuff which i liked even more XD. In my opinion Billy Walker is doing a great job with blending the multiples finishes with each other to create the 12 and the 15, but for some people its too artificial, and i can see that. The difference is todays situation and the ressources he has at hand i would say. He is doing the best he can in this time where quality sherry casks are almost impossible to get and only the seasoning of the sherry casks defines the quality of the cask, which is a craft in its own now. When drinking GA you see the modern take on whisky and its different from glendronach for example. The execution is very good, but its not the same as old school stuff. For me i have found speyburn as a good old school style scotch for todays standards and for the modern takes on whisky i have found kavalan and elsburn as top expressions for cask driven whisky. Bunnahabhain 12 and the 12 cs and Glen Garioch 15 olorosso sherry cask are also excellent classical sherried scotch whiskys for me.
All women want is a man to look at them and try to understand them the way Wade does with whiskey
😂 this is quite possibly the best comment on my channel yet!!