Waves Of Memories

Shaped by time and coastal embrace, Glenglassaugh’s Serpentine Coastal Cask Collection—aged since the 1970s—will inspire ruminations and reminiscences.

- Alvin Wong

DR RACHEL BARRIE invites me to "listen to the taste" and I curiously, but expectantly, oblige. It isn't every day that one of the world's most renowned master blenders takes me through a taste test. Even rarer yet is the trio of drams on offer. Emanating soft shades of amber and light bronze, with smooth viscosity and big personalities, they comprise 48-, 49- and 51-yearold whiskies from the Glenglassaugh Serpentine Coastal Cask Collection.

"I equate a whisky's age as being half the age of a person," explains Barrie. "So, for a 48-year-old whisky, that makes it 96 years old in human years. How often do you get to meet someone this old? Just in terms of their rarity, I hope this gives some context to the whiskies."