Originally, Gordon & Macphail released this Glen Grant 1951 in 2013. It matured for no less than 61 years. It is a vatting of 2 casks that yielded 358 bottles. On the 4th September 2017 Gordon & Macphail…

Originally, Gordon & Macphail released this Glen Grant 1950 in 2007. It matured for no less than 57 years. It is a vatting of 2 casks that yielded 668 bottles. On the 4th September 2017 Gordon & Macphail…

Claxton’s is a fairly new player on the market. Their bottles have a distinctive square perfume bottle shape. But what’s inside is often very good indeed. Today I will try their 19 year old Glenrothes…

This 9 year old Glenrothes from 2007 was bottled this year from a single cask that yielded 920 bottles. It matured on a sherry butt. Bottler is Morrison & Mackay, who released it in their Carn Mor Str…

The official releases of Glenrothes are bottled in typical round bottles since 1994, as a vintage, meaning with the year of distillation on the label as opposed to an age statement. We are trying the…

Glenrothes lies in the heart of the Speyside and is one of 5 distilleries in Rothes. She was founded in 1878 and is best known for her fruity whiskies. The Glenrothes Vintage Reserve is the entry level…

Imagine my surprise when independent bottler North Star Spirits announced the release of a 13 year old Tennessee Bourbon. 13 years is already quite a lovely age for a bourbon, so I am expecting a complex…

North Star Spirits is fast becoming one of my favorite independent bottlers. So far, all the stuff I have tried from them has been top notch. In May 2017 they released a single grain from the Lowland…

North Star Spirits – the company run by Iain Croucher – has just launched its second batch. Again it contains some wonderful malt and grain whiskies, but also a Montilla Fortified Wine (which I absolu…

There is no Deveron distillery, but we do know the Macduff Distillery as the maker of this malt, which also happens to be at the heart of many blends, most notably the world famous William Lawson’s. In…