Coleburn is only a stone’s throw away from Longmorn and BenRiach, so in the heart of Speyside not to far from the town of Elgin. It has been closed since 1985. There are no official bottlings (bar a Rare…

While the Cambus single grain distillery closed in 1993 already, the warehouses and the filling station are still in use. There are no official bottlings and even with the independent bottlers Cambus is…

This is already the fourth Auchentoshan that Douglas Laing releases in their celebrated Old Particular range. It is also the oldest in the series with its 17 years of maturation on a refill hogshead.Ha…

The official 10 Year Old was just fine. Let us see if the 12 Year Old, bottled way back in 1996, does any better.Apple juice, orange juice and sweet malt. That is the essence of this very simple nose.…

Distiller's Art is a new series by Langside Distillers (which is part of Hunter Laing), which releases single cask bottlings. So far there have been an Allt-a-Bhainne, Blair Athol, Braeval, Clynelish,…

Berry Brothers & Rudd from London has already brought six Auchentoshan to the market. This is one of their more recent releases, a 17 Year Old from 1996. The pale color strongly suggests a bourbon cask…

No less than 2.880 bottles were filled from this sherry cask. Milroy’s of Soho limited itself to bottling miniature. For those who are not familiar with Milroy’s: it is one of London’s well-known whisky…

This 18 Year Old Glenturret was already bottled in 1990, meaning it is a distillate of the late ‘70s – of last century, obviously.The nose starts off pleasant enough with sweet malt, apples and oranges…

Cadenhead only just launched their new Auchentoshan, a great 23 Year Old from 1992, but we still have the previous release to taste, which was launched in January 2015. This 15 Year Old Auchentoshan from…

The Old Particular range from Douglas Laing does not really need an introduction, does it? I have had quite a few gems already, including two Auchentoshan. Today I will try the latest release, a 14 Year…