Thursday, March 1, 2012  Glenfiddich Special Reserve 12 -
getting lost on the wrong side ofmemory lane  UPDATE:
Glenfiddich's brand manager points out that the 50ml miniature
used in the following review is quite old and that the flavor
profile has changed.   I have performed a follow-up review.
Archetypes often come in pairs; good/bad; male/female, etc...
Yesterday's post recalled Macallan 12 as the sherried archetype
of good single malt from my earliest experiences with single
malts. Glenfiddich was the bad. As a self-identified beginner I
had been steered to a 3 cornered green bottle of no-age-
specified Glenfiddich. It had been paler than straw and of a
weak insipid character with chalky and sour notes that added
years to my journey by inspiring distrust and suspicion. When
this was overcome I never returned to Glenfiddich. Once I was
gifted another bottle of the no-age-specified stuff and it was
the first scotch I ever regifted unopened.  Fast forward to last
month when my gracious host who had already p