Grant’s No Age Statement ‘The Family Reserve’ (40%, OB, +/-2009)

The nose reveals black pepper, fruit, cereal and the vaguest hint of smoke (real or imagined) along with some really good grain whisky and honey, some hints of dark chocolate. The taste is a really good mix of grain, malt, the fruit, chocolate and very light raw tobacco giving it a strong back bone; the taste is really, really good. Oh, the marvelous sweetness and grain all intermingled together, this is sensational. The finish is warming, full of grain and malt, tobacco, black pepper and is long and sweet. After a number of minutes the finish still crashes on and on….

It’s simply very good and well worth the money. Well done Grant’s.

C$25

Score 87 Points

At Whisky Intelligence we do not drag out the garlic juice, 1,000,000 candle power arc lights and wooden stakes at the first sign of a blended whisky and generally celebrate them while recognizing the economics of the situation that without blended whiskies there wouldn’t be any single malts. During this week we’ve examinrd a few blended whiskies but next week it’ll be back to the malts!