![Glen Marnoch 29 Year Old – 40.0% [Aldi Festive Releases]](https://deadbottlecollective.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/dram-reports2.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1)
NOSE: 26
Baked red apples dominate with hints of icing sugar and all-butter pastry.
PALATE: 23
Those apples calm down a little allowing light oaky notes to rise up, almost soft enough to be European oak.
Vanilla is definitely present and possibly the faintest hint of maple syrup.
FINISH: 17
Very thin finish.
Quickly dissipates to leave next to nothing on the taste buds.
Vanilla is still there and is the most forthright of the notes.
A small hint of honey is there if you can catch it.
PERSONAL: 6
A very easy to drink, Autumnal dram.
A little thin, but what do you expect at 40% ABV?
The nose carries this dram in my opinion as the palate isn’t quite strong enough to wow you; the flavours are good but there just isn’t enough of each of them.
No indication of region on the label but I would hazard a guess at Speyside and I’d say it has a lot of characteristics in common with Longmorn‘s output – definitely not a bad thing.
TOTAL SCORE: 73
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