| Rating | 32/40 |
| Origin | Speyside, Livet |
| Distillery | Glenlivet |
| Owner | Pernod Ricard via Shivas Brothers |
| Series | NÃ durra |
| Edition | Batch OL516 |
| Style | Single Malt |
| Cask | 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Casks |
| Bottled | May 2016 |
| Strength | 60.4% (120.8 Proof) |
| Whiskybase | Whiskybase |
| Wine Searcher | Wine Searcher |
One of the at least 3 batches of Glenlivet’s Oloroso matured version of their NÃ durra series bottled in 2016. The NÃ durra series of cask strength single malt bottlings from the famous Speyside distillery was introduced in 2005. In 2014 they started to release Oloroso matured batches as part of the series and, finally, in 2015 they added peated batches as well.
Nose: A large, rough and sharp wooden splinter is used to harshly cut through coarse baker’s chocolate. There are hints of dried mushrooms about. This one is a prickly guest that, when agitated, emanates small puffs of sweet peat from their pores. (7/10)
Palate: Licking a very dry wooden plank that was somehow infused with milk chocolate. The experience of the dram is geometrically flat. It clings to the tongue and absolutely refuses to lift up or expand in any direction but sideways until it finally slides in thin sheets over the back edge of the tongue and into the throat where it suddenly explodes into a dense and well defined ball of chocolate infused smoke. (8,5/10)
Finish: The ball of chocolate infused smoke wafts and wobbles about in the back and only descends very slowly from there. Oddly there’s not a lot of warmth generated which is surprising for a whisky this strong. (8.5/10)
Balance: Rather harsh up front but quite nice once you get past that. Ver-ey peat-ey chocolat-ey. (8/10)
