Colour: pale gold. Nose: the first feeling is that it’s very similar to the 1998, as if Ord didn’t change at all within twenty years. Quite some coffee again, milk chocolate, overripe pears (as opposed to freshly cut ones), roasted peanuts, hints of pineapples and a little smoke again... But at 66% ABV, let’s not take chances with our nostrils. With water: It’s funny, this one got fruitier with water, more complex, with a lot of quince jelly, candy sugar, ripe apricots, fresh mint and a little pine resin. AH, Managers have it good! (don’t shoot!) Mouth (neat): shall we dare to put this into our mouth? Of course, and that was a good idea. Not ‘assaulting’, very creamy, thick, not cloying, all on milk and white chocolates, vanilla fudge, mint and a little banana and melon. Excellent. With water: almost exactly like the 30yo (a benchmark for us.) Does ‘the peacock’s tail’ on all sorts of crystallised fruits and jams (oranges, quinces, Williams pears) with a little nutmeg and ginger. Even eucalyptus. Finish: prolonging the palate for a long time. Comments: another proof that Glen Ord can be a super-malt.