← GlenDronach
GlenDronach Ode to the Dark
- Age
- No age statement
- ABV
- 50.8%
- Introduced
- 2024
Flavour Fingerprint
The shape of GlenDronach Ode to the Dark
This bottle's own signature across the twelve-axis Spirit Map — not the distillery average, but this exact expression.
Draw a shape like it in the Explorer →Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Very dark mahogany, nearly black
- Nose
- Mocha, black cherry, dark chocolate, crème brûlée, raisin, brown sugar, ginger
- Palate
- Smooth espresso and crème caramel folding into black grape and mint chocolate ganache, nutty with praline
- Finish
- Rich, dark, lingering chocolate and fruit finish with warming spice, surprisingly short, drying nuttiness, peppery
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- Pedro Ximénez sherry casks
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