Scent: Linen from the dryer, orchard fruits like red apples and white peaches, toffee, yellow raisins. Made with water from the same crystal-clear mountain streams, in the same cold, pure air, The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve is as smooth and fruity as the whisky that first ran from the original copper pot stills. Here’s my favorite recipe: Three parts Founder’s Reserve, one part Ardbeg Ten, a dash of Oloroso sherry, and a smidge (very small amount) of dark roast coffee.

Over the course of three and a half decades that followed, he's built upon a knowledge of distilleries and the industry, as well as world whisky.years later in 2014, the Glenlivet released its now-famous 1824 Founder’s Reserve Single Malt Scotch. For example, last year I bought a 12 year old 2007 Signatory Vintage that was sold exclusively by The Whisky Exchange. One of the most well-known single malt scotches in the world, the Glenlivet can be found in a great many restaurants and bars. Yet another example of the trend towards No Age Statement releases, Founder’s Reserve is said to be “considered a 12 year old Scotch by most.

The offering was meant to compliment its standard 12 year old version, and was branded to honor founder George Smith.According to the distillery, Founder’s Reserve is “created using the time-honoured distillation methods that he introduced so long ago. On the bright side, let it be known I’ve used the Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve in creative vattings that were rather fun to concoct. Officially established in 1824, this distillery brings in excess of 25 different products to market. A more jaded critic might aver it tastes as though he were sucking on a peach pit which had been soaked in barley water.