Deanston reviews

I hesitated about writing another review of Deanston Virgin Oak but noticed that the last review written was by Cricklewood some four years ago. Perhaps an update would be justified. It appears that…

This sample was kindly donated by @Timp. Deanston are going about their business quite nicely and I was impressed with their OB 12 and, while not quite as good as the former, the 18 was also very nice…

Old Train Line is a series of independent bottlings by Jack Wiebers, a German bottler. In a previous life, Jack Wieber was an agent for Michael Jackson, the pop star. I find the labels of this series…

A few years ago House of Macduff, Scottish indie, bottled this 22 years old Deanston in their well-known series The Gold Cask, which is reserved for single cask releases at cask strength.Well, that nose…

I’m somewhat surprised that this is only my 19th Deanston so far. It’s a bottling from Signatory for the Belgian and Luxemburg market. No less than 851 bottles were drawn from this first fill sherry butt…

I'd heard some really good things about Deanston over the last couple of years, and saw the nice, big, fat ABV of this Signatory bottling and decided to give this a shot. I've yet to have a disappointing…

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Sherry cask matured whiskies. When the Sherry cask influence is overdone (which it frequently is) I'm not a fan. The natural character of the spirit just…

This review is from a sample kindly provided by @RianC thanks mate This is only my second Deanston. I had a bottle of the 18 which I enjoyed. The colour on this is fantastic for a naturally coloured…

The member of Klubb23 – yes, there’s only 23 of them, hence the name – selected this 20 years old Deanston and put the Creature of the Black Lagoon on the label. ‘Wild and distinguished’, they call it…

I had been looking forward to getting my hands on a bottle of this for a while. It's one of those that nearly everyone likes, with some well-respected reviewers gushing in their praise. Bottle is half…