Cereal sweetness, marzipan, toasted almond, red apple, dried fig, sultana, wildflower honey, rum spice, ginger
Salty butter, Corinth raisins, walnut loaf, coffee ice cream, toffee apple — worm tub heaviness shining
Long, malty, sugary porridge tail — dangerously drinkable
Glen Elgin 12 — JW Gold's Horse Power malt. Worm tubs. 1898. 43%. £42.
Cereal and almond nose. Salty butter and raisin palate. Long malty finish. Dangerously drinkable.
Glen Elgin 12 earns an 8 — vibrant, fruity, dangerously drinkable at £42. Superb price/quality entry-level OB. JW's secret revealed.
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