Thanks to /u/ScotchChick for pouring me a sample of this dram.

I’ll be honest, as I typically am: For a few years, I skipped over the Glenmorangie special releases.

Yes, I’ve reviewed a few of them. Like today’s, Glenmorangie Bacalta, not around the time they came out. Why? Well, there’re a few reasons.

The first is the easiest: Ealanta. A cracker dram if I ever had one. And while I liked Compagnta after it, I realized that it was really, really hard to follow. Like those poor roller-skating chimps that came on after the Beatles on the Tonight Show. Little buggers never had a chance.

So while I’d love to keep up, I left them to the side. And then I tried the recent one, Spios. Frankly, I expected a gimmick and ended up really, really liking it. And then realized that maybe, just maybe, I was incorrect about…