Dogme reviews #1. Five short reviews

Sometimes reviews do get long and complicated. I get more confused than informed. For simple people like me that can only pick up between 0 and 3 notes in a whisky (beside "whisky") I will now try out some Dogme reviews. Or maybe I just don't have time to anything but short reviews and relax these days..

One rule : maximum 20 words. Initial first thoughts counts!

Do whisky make you think of a colour ?. It often does for me. This is somewhat irrational, but sometimes when I taste a whisky a colour pops up in my head. It might just be the predominant colours of the things I pick up in the whisky? It doesn't happen that often for me, but maybe for 1 or 2 in 10 whiskies.

Anyway, the few words combined with the rating should give you an idea of what I think of the whisky

Test samples from whiskybase

1. Glen Elgin 1985 Edition Spirits 46.6%

26yo Bottled 2011 

Great mouthfeel and texture. Sweet candy and spicy dry wood. Big and bold. Old. Citrus, medium finish

Rating 86 Colour: Brown

2. Clynelish 1988 Edition Spirits 50.0%

23yo Bottled 2012

Light. Slightly sour (acetic acid), Medium wood, some citrus and coconut. Longer finish

Rating 83 

3. Macduff 2000 Archives 48.2%

11yo. Bottled 2012

Funny artificial taste. Plastic ?. Sherry spiced. Medium finish

Rating 81

4. Glen Ord 1997 Archives  54.2%

15yo. Bottled 2012

Nose is light and immature. Greater palate but a little boring. Coconut, citrus, wood spiced and malty

Rating 83

5. Benriach 2000 12yo OB 54.4%

Bottled for the Netherlands. Virgin Oak Cask

Typical intense new wood whisky. Vanilla, intense mint

Rating 86 Colour : White

Diageo Dramming part 4 - Glen Ord

Glen Ord at dusk

Glen Ord is located a few miles northwest of Inverness, and is the location for both a malt whisky distillery and a maltings facility, the latter supplying several Diageo distilleries, including Glen Ord. It's just outside the village Muir of Ord, which is just at the bottom of the The Black Isle peninsula, emerging into the north sea between the Beauly Firth and the Cromarty Firth

The distillery is rather unknown but has recently been promoted as the Singleton of Glen Ord. The Gaelic word "Glen" means valley, but there's no geographic location called Glen Ord!

When whisky hit succes and single malt distilleries got known, Glenlivet being the name for others to match, I reckon the name Glen was added just for marketing purposes. If the whisky haves Glen in the name it must me good seemed to be the way of thinking.

The distillery had several names. It started in 1838 as Ord Distillery, later it was renamed Glen Oran, and then Glen Ord. The malt has been bottle under many names. Ord, Glenordie, Glen Ord, The Singleton of Glen Ord, Glen Oran.

The Glen Ord distillery has a nice visitor centre, with a good standard tour that includes a wee look into a warehouse.

1. Glen Ord 28 years old, bottled in 2003 58.3% Distillery Bottling

Nose : Sweet and warming, with a fruity and woody touch. Adult candy

Palate :Spicy and dry. Malty. A dark spicy apple fruityness emerges late in the palate

Finish : Medium with apples

A very nice and warming malt

Rating 84