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Девятилетний торфяной виски с ярким профилем, сочетающим мощный дым, золу, минеральность и красные ягоды. Опытные эксперты расходятся в оценке баланса: одни хвалят питкость и гармонию, другие отмечают борьбу между бочкой и торфом.
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Аромат образца отличается высокой интенсивностью и комплексностью, объединяя ноты земляного и минерального торфа, дыма, лака, ванили, травы и выраженную ягодную сладость клубники, малины, смородины, а также винные оттенки. Во вкусе мощная крепость ощущается сбалансированно или напористо, раскрываясь маслянистой текстурой, солоновато-морскими нюансами, золой, специями, дубом и темными ягодами. Послевкусие среднее по длине, сухое и терпкое, с отголосками ментола, цитрусовых, табака, шоколада и минерального дыма.
Авторитетные дегустаторы высоко оценивают качественную интеграцию крепкого алкоголя и богатство ароматических оттенков, хотя некоторые находят профиль излишне фенольным или недостаточно гармоничным из-за противостояния торфяных и бочковых характеристик. Меньшество критиков указывает на угловатость, резкость аромата и слабую интеграцию вина. Общий уровень оценок стабильно высокий, большинство сходится на том, что это один из самых дымных релизов винокурни с характерным морским профилем.
Although not particularly old, this 2025 Festival bottling has surprisingly good alcohol control. A delicious young malt from Campbeltown, it could be a bit more affordable (under 70).
This has a lovely nose with a dirty peat note coming through, but from then on in it seems to fight the cask - almost like a competition. Well worth trying, but I think the lack of balance would make killing the bottle a bit of a faff.
Had to google the wine first, interesting. Not sure I would've guessed a wine finish in a blind tasting, it reminded me of a Fino sherry. The peated GS is lovely, lightly salted, yummy.
Needs a little time in the glass Tried again and I now go from 87 to 88
This is definitely the smokiest Glen Scotia I've ever had. I would never blindly tip this distillery
Perhaps the most phenolic of all festival releases. Powerful and vibrant, tart and thick. Perhaps a bit too much phenolic for Glen Scotia. I was surprised by the Isabella grapes. Difficulty of note breakdown: 6/10 21 22 21 21
With each passing year, Glen Scotia's festival releases are getting weaker. The aroma is too piercing and biting on the nose for me. The taste is much milder, sweeter, fruitier. That's what saves the whole rating. I won't buy a bottle.
High aroma intensity, but for me it clearly lacks balance, harmony, and therefore elegance. Not a bad bottling, but in my opinion not a particularly good one either...
Glen Scotia stayed true to its roots with the Campbeltown Festival bottling. This bottling is also only nine years old. The positive aspect is that this time the whisky is not unpeated like last year, which in my opinion led to a slightly disappointing result. This time the whisky is heavily peated. It was initially matured in first-fill bourbon barrels and then finished for six months in Ribera del Duero casks. This is a wine-growing region in northern Spain where the Tinta del Pais grape variety predominates. This is basically Tempranillo with slightly smaller, thicker-skinned grapes. This matches the cherry-red packaging and has also left this hue as a slight tinge in the more yellow-amber-colored whisky. glen-efze.de
A great Glen Scotia. The alcohol is excellently integrated. The substantial smoke harmonizes beautifully with the fruity, sweet berries. A long, pleasant finish.
The aroma has notes of tobacco and alcohol, and the flavor is quite complex, oily, and mineral.
Rare but not that outstanding,5 months of red wine cakes finishing is not long enough to present the usage of red wine casks
An early release this year, exclusively to Unlocked Subscribers, of Glen Scotia's Campbeltown Malts Festival Limited Edition. This year they've gone with a Heavily Peated 9yo finished in Ribera del Duero Red Wine. It's a nice dram, typical heavily peated Glen Scotia with lots of salinity. Mouthfeel is lovely but I think the wine cask has delivered dry tannins and spice rather than berry notes. Not my favourite Festival release but it is better than the Rum Cask! https://malt-musings.blogspot.com/2025/02/glen-scotia-campbeltown-malts-festival.html
Malty & Sweet The savory, grain-driven character is particularly impressive.
Quite young and unbalanced.
Very peaty/smoky whisky with minimal wine influence in the form of berries. In my opinion it is a bit young, spicy, and bitter. I would appreciate more, if Glen Scotia would come up with some 12y-18y non peated releases using just refill ex-bourbon and Sherry casks.
Nose: dark chocolate, teak, holly and sugared cranberries, play doh and green pepper, cactus fruit and mastiha, muskmelon and pork buns, lamingtons Palate: coconut ash and carambola, victoria plum conserve Finish: barbecued pineapple and papaya, loose leaf tobacco and barra brath Tasted as part of Southport Whisky Club Campbeltown festival tasting
Exceptionally enjoyable peat nuances and a proper incorporation despite the high peating rate truly elevate this whisky. Uncommon, slightly funky notes add character. Superb! Price performance: Very good! Would I buy it again?: Yes!
In the aroma, besides the strong smokiness and for me quite strange some kind of machine or some kind of industrial smell, I also noticed a quite nice smell of some red berries like cranberries. After a longer time, a smell of white chocolate appeared and also some fresh spiciness. The taste is strongly smoky, maybe oily, medium bitter, malty, slightly woody, grape freshness. That strange machine-like steel aftertaste appeared at the very end. I'm not sure if this whisky won me over...
Reading through the existing reviews, I think I was just unlucky with my bottle. I really like Glen Scotia and was very much looking forward to this bottling, but I can't quite enjoy it. The malt isn't balanced enough for me; there's too much acidity and metallic bitterness on the palate, perhaps also too much ash for my taste. The fruitiness I expected from the maturation in the Ribera del Duero cask is unfortunately too much in the background. Despite all this, it's always a challenge to taste a glass.
I had it at a blind tasting. It's truly heavily peated and I appreciated it as an Islay whisky. Unfortunately, he can't hide his youth.
Interesting take with a red wine cask and it seems to work well. Creamy vanilla, maritime smoky peat , smoked BBQ bacon , honey barley sugar, oak, liquorice , tinned fruit maybe peach. A few drops of water opens it up and draws out the sweet notes. A pleasant peaty Campletown malt.
Glen Scotia, 9 Year Old, Peated, Ribera del Duero cask finish, Malts Festival Edition. Sample (around 20-25ml perhaps) from a Southport Whisky Club tasting pack. Dark golden. Aroma is charcoal mixed with blackberry in a cohesive way (burnt blackberry pie?), but background burnt buttery banana bread becomes b… apparent, melted margarine and possibly pink peppercorn and seared red pepper. That’s about it. Body is lightly oily. Taste holds together really well for a red wine cask finished whisky. Creamy chocolate-covered cherries leading into a baked banana sweetness, becoming salty mid-palate and then toffee-ish into the finish. A light smokiness on the breath afterwards but the peat is leaning more oily, briney and piney – reminds me a bit of peated Bruichladdich stuff and I’d probably have said that blind. Definitely one of my favourite red wine cask influenced whiskies from those I’ve tried (but I certainly do not go out of my way to try them!) Really well put-together actually. Might have expected this to have been the most likely dud from the tasting set (only because of the red wine cask – I do like Glen Scotia), but in the end it was my favourite. At £60 a bottle it’s quite tempting. 3.6/86
I can see this being another popular Campbeltown Malts release from Glen Scotia. The wine finish on this is very well done and works seamlessly with the highly peated spirit. For me, it has that balance I need between spirit and cask. There's oliy caramel malt still forming the backbone, but the peat and fruit are both also fully strutting their stuff. It reminds me a bit of Raasay in the way that combination is expressed. Tonnes of fun. My advice - grab one NOW.
An interesting experience of wine and medicine and smoke.. The wine did not overwhelm the distillery style, but with a wine finish it did not find anything. I would say a winter, sharp, juicy whisky for an amateur... Nose - 21.5 Taste - 21 Finish - 21.5 Balance - 21 Rating - 85
Fortunately, the finish is not overpowered by tartaric acid.
distinct peat and well balanced.
Color: Light golden. Nose: warm smoke, alcohol well integrated. Palate: Strong smoke, ash dominant and unpleasant, sweetness, alcohol well integrated on the palate, wine aromas detectable, but seem artificial and disharmonious, medium finish. I don't like it. Therefore, the rest of the small sample had to be discarded.
Smoky, fruity, medium long finish
It was so close to get 88, but finish faded too early.
Colour with copper and slightly reddish reflections. Aroma notes of fire, smoke and spices. Something berry comes through. Bright, oily and juicy in taste, berry motives, enveloped in smoke and spices. Warming long aftertaste with pleasant berry sourness, notes of spices, chocolate and smoke.
aroma: subtle to indistinct, light, smoke, dark fruit taste: full, dense, nutty, dried fruit, dark fruit A beautiful dense, slightly smoky thing, yet sweet with dark berries.
Overripe watermelons, red raisins, dust and a hint of earthy smell, with a strong smoky flavor.
84+ Small review, small sample. 60 euros feels like a truly fair price for a CS nearly 10-year old with a nice Campbeltown character. May not need a full bottle, but a clear recommendation.
the combination of peat and red wine finish works really well for me.
[84~87] nice, there is something to discover, purchase incentive only with good price-enjoyment ratio :-)
Sometimes it's chance that holds the biggest surprises. This sample was included with a purchase – and it immediately captivated me. A 9-year-old Glen Scotia with a Ribera del Duero finish initially sounds like just another "wine barrel gimmick." But there's more to it than that. Much more. One could see it as an attempt to give a rather classic house style a wilder, more modern dimension. Whether or not it's appealing depends largely on personal taste.
Nose: beautiful sour candy peat 9 Palate: following nose, sparkling very very nice 9
B: 54.3%, ucf, nc, thick, balanced. 23 N: peat, herbal, vanilla, tropic fruits. Intense and peaty. 20 P: vanilla, spice, tropic fruits, smoke. Sweet and deep. 22 F: spice, vanilla, citrus, smoke. Medium to long. 21 Tasty and meaty peated dram
Das Duero-Finish lenkt den sehr kräftigen Torfrauch mit süßen Untertönen, deutliche Wein-Noten „blitzen“ nur hier und da auf. Insgesamt eine sehr runde Angelegenheit mit fantastisch eingebundenem Alkohol. Lecker!
Aroma: intense, phenolic smoky note, bacony, alcohol well integrated, machine oil, sweet base note, raspberry, nice balance Taste: again smoked bacon with a sweet undertone, peppery, vanilla, medium spicy aftertaste, Color: Straw-colored, medium water rim, clear Conclusion: a solid smoker, not particularly complex, but definitely one of the better Glen Scotia Festival bottlings – and I probably wouldn't have guessed a wine finish in the dark...
With its distinctive peaty and sea salt style and limited body, this wine is suitable for those who enjoy the peaty and sea salt style. I feel it's just so-so, not suitable for me.
absolutely must have! this smoky one is perfect???? full body, very specific, untypical smokiness
A mediocre whisky. Its only merit is its high strength. The aromas play with hints of sea, salt, and meat, flowing from one nuance to another. The wine finish is only in the name. It's not even close to being detectable in the taste, not even a hint.
Harminischer Rauch mit Noten von Erdbeere/Himbeere in der Nase
Color: dark gold. Nose: peat, marshmallows, wild strawberries, rosin, dill, grape juice, electrical tape, smoke, red apples, plums, engine oil, sugar-coated cranberries, dried smelt, fresh bread, polished oak, black peppercorns. Really impressive, with red wine notes layered over peat and Campbeltown funk. With water: becomes more funky, meadow herbs, rubber, earth, burnt paper, camphor oil. Taste: cherries, dark chocolate, spice, red apples, carambolas, salted caramel, cranberries, peat, smoke, black tea, mint. Quite detailed, though a bit too sweet and hot. With water: roasted bread, plums, cacao. Still sweet. Finish: dark chocolate, prunes, gingerbread, mint, cherries, peat, salt, tobacco, smoke, cranberries, spice. Conclusion: interesting how much influence less than half a year in wine casks could bring! The effect is entirely positive on the nose and more debatable on the palate, which is somewhat harsh and sweet. 86/100, with a bonus point for the aroma, which really thrives with water. Finally we got this 2025 festival release available in the US. At about $65 per bottle, it's hard to complain.
Delicious dram - peaty and a bit smokey, with lovely notes of dried red fruit, candied apples, english fruit cake and a nice deep sweetness. Lovely.
Perhaps due to the wine cask finish, it delivers an intriguing and unique flavor profile profile mixed with a very familiar, Ardbeg-like heavy peat. If you ask me whether it is good or bad, I would say it leans toward being quite a delicious and well-made dram. However, since I received this as a "booby prize" from a lucky box, evaluating it at its full retail price makes me feel like it is slightly lacking in value for money.
Topper! Super in balans. Scotia & peated = great!!!!