Glenmorangie - Quinta Ruban 14 Year Old (750ml)

Price: $75.99

* Not eligible for case discounts

Producer	Glenmorangie
Country	Great Britain
Region	Scotland - Ross-shire
Style	Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Sku	8175383148
Size	750ml

Wine Enthusiast: 93 Points

The port cask finish on this 12-year-old Scotch brings a tawny rose-gold tinge and a juicy hint of red fruit to the rich caramel and baked apple aroma. The palate is shows cayenne spice on the first sip, sliding into a caramel finish. Adding water snaps this Scotch into focus, integrating vanilla and spice, with an espresso midpalate and a long, mouthwatering dulce de leche fade. Kara Newman, 12/1/2017.

Whiskey Advocate: 92 Points

Number 9 in the 2019 Top 20

This Quinta Ruban succeeds the 12 year old version, adding two additional years of finishing in port casks, while maintaining the same bargain price. The result is a symphony of understated opulence. Marzipan, fresh apple and pear, milk chocolate, red berries, candied ginger, and praline on the nose build slowly, leading into a fruity, spiced palate. Flavors of soft gingerbread, molasses cake, cherry pie, spiced plums, almond nougat, and dark chocolate intermingle with faint strains of pipe tobacco. It sings on the finish, with a parting crescendo of hazelnut, spice, cigar wrapper, and lengthy oak. Reviewed by: Susannah Skiver Barton (Winter 2019)

Whisky Advocate, May 10, 2019:

Glenmorangie has changed the formula for Quinta Ruban, upping its age from 12 to 14 years. The recommended retail price is staying the same. Quinta Ruban has always been 12 years old, matured for roughly ten years in bourbon casks and two years in port pipes. The change means that the bourbon cask maturation will get longer, although, depending on what stocks are available and how they taste, the port finish may also be longer than two years.

Simultaneous with this change, Glenmorangie is also repackaging Lasanta to better emphasize its 12 year old age statement. Changes for Nectar d’Or are also coming, but no details are currently available.

Whisky Advocate says:

Glenmorangie changed the recipe for Quinta Ruban to highlight more of the rich flavors coming from the port casks, but the change isn’t as dramatic as it might appear. Head of maturing whisky stocks Brendan McCarron explains that Quinta Ruban has contained a majority of 14 year old whisky as part of its blend for many years. “You can’t make whisky just in time—you need to predict the future,” he says. “So sometimes we lay down more stock, sometimes we lay down less stock, and that’s the way it goes. And we’d have some 12, some 13, and some 14 [year old] in [the Quinta Ruban blend]. It makes a fantastic whisky, but the main drivers we noticed were a little bit more of the dark chocolate and Seville orange [notes], which is a key part of Glenmorangie in port wood. We noticed a little more of that coming in at 14 years old.”

Kudos to Glenmorangie for not raising the price on this whisky even as the age goes up by two years. That’s a nice change of pace in the whisky world, where the process usually goes in reverse—lower age statement, higher price.

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