This or Victoriana | Glen Scotia 8 Peated PX Finish REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2022
- I've got a single malt scotch whisky from the Glen Scotia distillery in Campbeltown today. This is their 8 year old Peated PX Finish. It's a special release for the 2022 Campbeltown Malts festival. I'll taste it and give you my thoughts. Cheers!
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Scores:
0-75 - Crap
75-79 - For cocktails & people you don't like
80-82 - Not bad
83-85 - Getting good here
86-89 - Delicious
90-94 - Awesome
95-100 - Cowabunga Dudes
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For me it's one of the best whiskies I had. It perfectly fills my taste - PX cask, some peat, some salt, sweetness and oiliness at the palatte.
Great! Glad to hear you're enjoying it. It's good stuff! 🥃
9.1 for me. Delicious.
Wow! Hell of a score! Glad you liked it, man. Good stuff! 🥃
Hey Geoff
I have tried the same 3 Campbeltown releases as you and this one is my favourite by a long long way. I also have a lot of Victoriana (bought at a closing sale) and really enjoy it. In my opinion, this is better, more complex and tastier than the Victoriana. Victoriana does tend to be older despite being a NAS.
I really love those forward flavours in this whisky. What is unique for me with this 8YO is the separation of flavours on the palate. In almost all other whiskies I have tasted, the flavours tend to be delivered simultaneously or they flow from one to another. In this one they are delivered so separately and the taste at the front of the mouth vs the middle and then the back are all different and separate.
I have drunk about 1/5 of my bottle and absolutely love this one, certainly enough to go hunt down a second bottle to keep for this one runs out.
Wow that's high praise. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. You're right, the flavours are much more forward in this one, and it's quite mouth-coating! 🥃
Dolly Parton wrote I will always love you in 1973 when she broke off her business relationship with the famous Porter Wagoner...She wanted to go solo....She made millions in royalties...still does ...when The Bodyguard came out and Whitney sung it...This ol country boy knows this type of shit.
So, I got an old original release of Victoriana...had a 16 from GS....liter $80....travel release.
Love my CS...but, I do not buy such young whiskies...
The 57North was $95us the other day...might be a liter..
I passed...just bought 9 bottles of whisky last few weeks.
Nice review...you sure get great whisky in Taiwan...I watch a lady who makes food videos in Taiwan and it is a great deal different than Cambodia...upscale and amazing..
Cheers buddy
Dolly gets the credit, eh? Hah well good on her.
How was that Scotia 16 travel retail? Keep hearing good things about it.
Young Campbeltowns and Islays seem to work so nicely with peat and some sherry.
got it. 😎👍
I have to say, am really enjoying the comic relief in your recent release of videos :)
Thanks! Happy to hear you like it. Dumb jokes, but I also appreciate a bit of levity sometimes! 🥃
Love to see Campbelltown whiskies reviewed and discussed. Great stuff, Geoff.
Thanks Thomas! Cheers! 🥃
I agree! The best of the Campbeltown Festival releases (2019-2022 I tried). I think it is on par with Victoriana (54,2%). Perhaps a notch better. I am looking forward to try this year 12-year Seasonal Release #3 now. Have it but haven't opened it. Good review Geoff!
Curious about that one, too. Didn't love last year's but I've heard this year's is better. Cheers! 🥃
I like it you are adding humor element to the video
Thanks Ian. Whisky can be very serious sometimes, but it's just a drink! Let's enjoy, laugh, and have fun with it! 🥃
Finally you got to this bottle...
Thank you so much for the video!
I bought this bottle more than half a year ago - apparently I have to open it 🤤
Shalom, my friend 👋🏻
I hope you enjoy Ron. Shalom and thanks for watching! 🥃
I bought it at a UK price, considering that it is an excellent value. I will do a side by side with Victoriana to check those similarities you mention. What I already did is compare it to other heavily peated Campbeltown malts, such as longrow and Kilkerran. Glen Scotia took the crown. It was an interesting exercise. Recommended. Great review
Interesting! Very different style than the Springbank stuff. I'd be curious to do that side-by-side myself. 🥃
Got this for my mom for Christmas, will report back with her thoughts
It's a good one. I'm sure she'll enjoy! 🥃
Just bought this one, so excited to pop
I'm sure you'll enjoy! 🥃
Cool. Thanks for the review. I just opened mine today as well 😊.
Great! Enjoy! 🥃
Had this throu the summer, I really digged it after a bit. Another one in the garage to open yet along with a few Victorianas and 15s. I’d agree it’s bit more of a firecracker 🧨 than the rest but that would be a bit of a sweeping statement, I’ve yet to have everything open and trying them regularly….. keep them coming G!
Glad to hear you're enjoying this one, John! Cheers! 🥃
Suggestion - Closest relation from Glen Scotia line up would be the Campbeltown 1832 (travel retail)
New to PX maturation experiences and it is not for me + being new to it does not help because I am able to pick out even the slightest or traces and it just puts me off.
Love this dram, sweetness all the way. Strangely I don't get much peat or smoke from it. Excellent review ☺
Thank you, sir. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. Good stuff! 🥃
Hey, Geoff! I was looking for this review :)
I love Glen Scotia! It is also the only Campbeltown whisky available in Bulgaria. Judging by your review I think I'll like the 8 yo festival bottle. Looks right up my alley as I'm very fond of such characterful and engaging whiskies, quirky even :)
I bought my bottle earlier this month and paid roughly 69 euros for it. Kinda steep, but special releases of Glen Scotia are very hard to come by in Bulgaria so I didn't give it much of a thought. Oddly enough, it was the official importer who brought this one to our market and they don't even carry Victoriana for which we have to rely on alternative import, but the regular price is roughly 102 euros which I won't pay ever! Good thing is the alternative importer for Victoriana is one of the better online stores and it is on the list for Black Friday discounts. It's easy when your regular price is outrageously inflated:) I bought my two bottles of Victoriana last year for around 55 euros, but have to wait until midnight to check this year Black Friday discount and compare it to the 8 yo Malt Festival bottle.
Cheers!
€102 for Victoriana? Hell no! Hah. Let's hope black Friday gives you a good discount on that one.
Glad this one's much more affordable. In terms of quality I'd say it's roughly on par with Victoriana, and if you're into Glen Scotia and don't mind some very forward cask and peat flavours I'm sure you'll get along fine with this one. Good stuff! 🥃
@@Gwhisky Black Friday brought us Victoriana at roughly 56 euros :) I passed because I have two bottles of it in the stash, but I tipped a friend of mine and he took the opportunity. By 3 PM it was already sold out.
Cheers!
I like Glen Scotia , good taste whisky . Good job Geoff , like )
Cheers Light! 🥃
@@Gwhisky Slante Mhath !
Hey Geoff, nice Review!
Just wanted to point out that the new labels brought with them also a hefty price increase, at least here in Germany. E.g. the 15 yo jumped from very fair 55€ to 75€. So this 8 yo kind of represents a pre price hike bottling.
I‘m gonna stock up while it‘s affordable at 70€.
Cheers
Frank
Sorry to hear that Frank. Yeah the 15 has shot up here too, and unfortunately it's no longer worth it imo. I think stocking up on GS while it's affordable is a smart move!
I bought this one bit on a wave of Campbeltown hype to be honest and not really be fan of sherried whiskies. But this release is heavily peated what i like and the price i paid, £55 was attractive. It still not opened but im now more open for sherry finished whiskies, some of them i really enjoy so good to know this GS is a good stuff and when right time will come i open the bottle and enjoy it. I like Victoriana by the way. Thank you for today's review which i enjoyed as always and sláinte 😁🥃🙋♂️.
Well if you're not always a fan of big sherry or sherry finishes, I think you'll still get along with this. It's not as sherry-forward as I was expecting. Just some nice fruity berry notes around the periphery, but they don't dominate. Good stuff. I'm sure you'll enjoy your bottle. 🥃
Omg I really thought you were going to sing and I was thinking no no, phew, hope this makes it to NZ as I have been meaning to try the Victoriana but now I might just go for this.
Yeah it's a bit rougher around the edges but it's loads of fun. I have some friends who much prefer this to the Victoriana.
Not widely available here in Australia sadly. There are other versions of Glen Scotia around that I have tried and enjoyed.
If you’re taking requests, Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing would be perfect for your pitch and tone………..
Yeah we don't always get these Campbeltown Malts Festival releases here either. If they come in, they disappear pretty quickly.
Journey eh? Sounds good. Might just. ditch the whisky and turn this into a karaoke channel...
If you could get your hands on the new Ardnamurchan Madeira Cask. Must be hard in TW. But I’d like to see you review it.
I'd like to make a review on it! Might take a while for it to pop up here, though. Cheers! 🥃
For a one off Geoff, I loved this as next year the festival release could be a portwood finish or something else non peated.
Glad you seemed to like it ;-)
Yeah I know I came off harsh but I genuinely like this one. Cheers Gareth. You're right... a great one off!
@@Gwhisky I was amazed to come across this and I loved it from the first sip and here goes like it more than Longrow gold label nas, but thats me.
Surprised you put it up against a quality core range product.
Love the output and your honesty , still waiting for a Whisky Lock " 40% piss " quote lol .
I sense Christmas whisky in this one:)
Nice!
Thanks Geoff, for by far the best version of the WH song.... boy, do I hate the original.
On the review: interesting and informative as usual. Bottle in my cabinet is still sealed and despite it's sweet I'm looking forward to the moment there is a space on the open shelf. By then I might watch yourcreview again.
Slàinte mhath
There should be a copyright strike for using original music. It sounded just like her.
I think you'll enjoy it. A bit rough around the edges but it's pretty damn good. Not as good as my singing, but good. 🥃
Tasted it at my friend’s house. Good, but I wasn’t to impressed. So did not open my own bottle yet.
Fair enough!
I’d be very interested to hear you comparison of this with the Finlaggan Cask Strength
That would be a great comparison. Sadly I finished my bottle of Finlaggan a few weeks back. 😬
@@Gwhisky Geoff. Shame on you, but I understand. Based on your recollection which would you choose if price was not relevant, and what bearing would price have on your decision if you had to take the cost difference into account?
@@michaelwood3203 Finlaggan is certainly better value. I'd buy it first. 🥃
Ok I’m going to risk asking what most veteran single malt drinkers (relatively speaking @ a decade) won’t ask. Tasting notes. What is/does “Cola” taste like? Another is white pepper. One that I feel I should know is “Malty” and “oaky”. So I think I know the last two but could you give one individual example bottling that prominently exemplifies those notes. Not a bottling that has all of them but one example that would clearly highlight those characteristics. Like if it was smoky it would be Ardbeg or mineraly it could be kilkerran 12 (at least for me) or salty would be Oban.
I’ve given you a chore. Now I feel bad. Only if you can otherwise give an answer to your liking. 😂
Cola tastes like cola. You want me to break down cola into tasting notes? I guess I could try if I actually ever drank the stuff. Lol. And white pepper is the powdery pepper as opposed to cracked peppercorns. Simpler and milder than black pepper. It hits differently. The best reference for malty flavours would be malt drinks, which I don't believe would be popular in the US. Made with sprouted barley, they have that heavy maltiness. US... maybe Ovaltine? Not nearly as close but I don't think American drink much in the way of malt drinks. Best I can do.
@@Gwhisky ok so cola is like the aftertaste of Coca Cola ? Malty, ok got it. White pepper , got it. Thanks bud.
@@SaltyCuban Hah sorry man... best I can do. But cheers for keeping me on my toes. Love it! 🥃
@@Gwhisky I knew I threw a curve at ya. Yeah after reading your explanations I pretty much guessed correct on all of them except the malty. I kinda thought malty was somewhat between wheat and bread doughy if that makes sense. But cola and white pepper never really come to my mind when thinking taste notes. The flavor wheel can be too confusing at times for us simpler folks. Thanks again!
One way to get a more prominent malt note is to leave your empty glass out overnight to dry and nose it in the morning. The malt aroma should be dominant.
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I think Jeff's hair is getting taller with each review...🤔
Next list: 10 whiskies to give your hair that voluminous Gwhisky glow...
Would ditch the appearance rating, or keep it verbal without the star rating. The star rating makes it seem like it factors into your overall rating - and we shouldn’t be grading on marketing/looks.
In fact, distilleries should generally be scolded for spending $ on rebranding, rather than quality casks, etc
9.1 for me. Delicious.