This is the first Glen Garioch ever bottled by the Scotch Maltwhisky Society . A 1976 cask, merely 8 or 9 years old at the time.

Glen Garioch 1976 (50.4%, Scotch Maltwhisky Society 1985, SMWS 19.1)

Nose: entirely on herbal notes, dried grass and minerals. Wet limestone, olive brine, hay, sooty notes and peat. Also lemony sharpness and a bit of lacquer paint and metal polish. Delicate but nice. Light fragrant notes in the background, perfumy but not disturbing. Mouth: more disturbing. Barley sugar, the same coastal sharpness and brine but also plain FWP now. Cologne...