This is part of the American Trilogy collection, where Garioch distillate was aged in casks made from Kentucky, Missouri, and Minnesota oak. Poured from a sample of a Glen Garioch tasting in 2022.

Nose: young green grape syrup, medium grape perfume, green grape popsicle, perhaps some artificial sweeteners like nutri-sweet and very syrupy, a bit salty too.

Palate: light to medium body, complex, initial palate is an unsweetened syrup, a little nutty, mid palate has an interesting flavor set that revolves around deflated bread, somewhat sweet, hard to describe like grape cough syrup with a good amount of fresh wood, crushed nuts like macadamia or dried almonds, and some salted chocolate in there, I guess salty chocolate covered young green grapes?, oily chocolate or chocolate oil? there seems to be a lot of unidentifiable things going on here, back palate shows the wood from those number 2 lead pencils back in junior high with some wax, subsequent sips has it taste more like medicine.

Finish: short to medium, a combination of wood, grapes, and mud, later on it becomes more chocolate like.

What an interesting pour, the nose was essentially green grapes in an extracted form, and then there were additional wood elements that made it taste more like cough medicine. Intrigued but not sure if it's well made. This is something along the lines of Bladnoch cask 38, unusual stuff.

Image courtesy of Eric Yee.

Eric Yee

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