This single grain by Scott’s Selection is one of the samples I scored at the Festival for Indepdent Bottlers on May 9th. It matured for 47 years on a bourbon cask. Girvan is a very young distillery,…

North British at young age can be somewhat hit & miss. Remember the somewhat disappointing 12 Year Old from Signatory and the very nice 14 Year Old on Californian sherrycask, also from Signatory. At…

The new kid on the block in the so-called Private Collection by Glenmorangie is this Ealanta. I tried the Sonnalta PX, Artein and Finealta before, they were all to my liking. This Ealanta matured on…

Resounding titles such as Extremely Rare immediately make you want to try this dram. So I got me a sample of this Glenmorangie at a festival in Ghent last February. After maturing on bourbon for 15 years…

Glenmorangie is one of those distilleries that absolute does not allow its name to be printed on any independent release’s label. Although, of course, sometimes Glenmo is bottled by someone else. Reme…

Longmorn can be found in the heart of Speyside, right next to BenRiach. We saw, during our visit of the distillery in 2010, that they even share warehouses. Gordon & Macphail, be well known bottler from…

Glenlossie is noble unknown since they produced predominantly for the blending industry. Only in 1990 did the first semi-official bottling appear in the Flora & Fauna series. Only 0.5% is bottled as…

Glenlossie was originally founded by John Duff, who would later also found Longmorn and BenRiach. In 1919 Glenlossie became part of DCL, precursor to Diageo. On the same terrain, Mannochmore Distillery…

A few weeks ago, this Longmorn arrived in Malts of Scotland’s spring release (as I call it). It is 21 years old. Exactly two years ago, MoS had already bottled a 19 Year Old, also from a bourbon hogshead…

The Glen Elgin distillery is located about 3 kilometres south of the town with the same name, a stone’s throw away from BenRiach and Longmorn. The production is destined for the White Horse blends. Hence…