1/Ripe cherries, walnuts, milk chocolate and marzipan: aka The GlenDronach 15 Revival, $176 at Dan Murphy's this week. For a Glengoyne 18 drinker, that's about 91% of what the Glengoyne 18 gives, for 64% of the price.
2/The GlenDronach 15 Revival, $176, fifteen years old and bottled at 46%. Pour it late and the nose gives rich sherry, ripe cherries, walnuts and marzipan. The palate turns to spicy damsons, cinnamon and dark chocolate, then a long finish of cloves and blackcurrants.
3/What a Glengoyne 18 drinker gives up with the GlenDronach 15 Revival is mostly the name on the label and three years of age. That's the whole of it.
4/Glengoyne 18, $276, is still the one for its fans: milk chocolate, orange marmalade, sweeter sherry and easy-going oak. The GlenDronach 15 Revival? That's the one for every other night.
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