The last Linkwood from the 70s that I will try this week is a Signatory Vintage from the Cask Strength Collection, in those sublime decanters that my granny loves to use for all sorts of oils and vine…

At the beginning of the century, Diageo launched the popular series Rare Malts. This Linkwood from 1975 is one of those (there are in fact several Linkwood bottled in this Rare Malts series). You can…

A.D. Rattray bottled a 21 Year Old Linkwood in 2011, distilled in 1989. The sherry cask, number 7322, yielded no less than 522 bottles.The nose is very herbaceous and reminds me of a wild prairie with…

The Linkwood distillery has been operational since 1821. In 1962 significant refurbishments were conducted and in 1971 the number of stills was increased from 2 to 4. Actually, a new set of four stills…

The Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan has brought us quite a few goodies already. So I am quite curious to their Barrel Selection of this 12 Year Old Linkwood, a distillate from 2000.The nose is fatty,…

Van Wees is a Dutch bottler that launches its whiskies under the somewhat bombastic (and in my opinion not so please to the eye) label The Ultimate. This Linkwood was distilled in 1990 and bottled at…

I have a special bond with Whiskyblender for three reasons. Foremost, I was one of the First to create a blend when they launched their website. Second I am now good friends with the driving forces…

Lochside Distillery closed in 1992 and was demolished in 2005. So far I have only tried old Lochside. So let me try a younger version today from this lost distillery. It is a bottling from Gordon &…

Just like the Lochside 1964 from Scott’s Selection, this is also a single blend, in which the grain and maltwhisky were brought together in the cask at birth. In this case, the cask is refill sherry butt…

This is a single blend. That may sound a bit weird, but when you know that Lochside produced both malt and grain whisky, it may sound not so weird anymore. They were blended at birth, meaning that both…