GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 6, 56.1% abv.

Matured in oloroso and PX casks. Heard GD made the Cask Strength series for it's affordability.

Nose: good amount of sherry, grapes, hints of honey, hints of wax.

Palate: sweet and strangely enough gets sweeter with time, a sherry cask dram, the wood pops up more progressively but in a very controlled manner, no smoke. The label says cedar wood, but I don't think so.

Finish: short, a little sweet, sherry-like.

Quite nice, a very good sipper, has enough flavor and heat to keep it going, and very well balanced. Interestingly the wood and honey sweetness amplified with more sips. I seriously thought this would be like the Parliament, but I guess more abv makes you focus on the true elements, which forces the nicer flavors and that unfavorable wood/old steamed lotus leaves flavor more, which I term expired sherry. Had this at Henry17, Busan, South Korea.

Grade: C+

Whiskyanalysis.com, 8.85 ± 0.16 on 5 reviews
Whisky advocate, Gavin Smith, 90 points

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