The bourbon hogshead 1625 was filled on 15th March 1984 and exactly 26 years later – on 15th March 2010 – was bottled for the Bladnoch Forum members. This Linkwood is at a respectable age of 26 years and…

I’m ending my Linkwood session with this 36 Year Old whisky from 1973. It was bottled by The Whisky Exchange especially for their 10th anniversary in 2009. My friend Stu from London tells me this should…

Two years ago, Auchentoshan bottled a unique whisky: it had matured solely on Limousin oak of the French Bordeaux house of Saint Julien (exclusively for the duty free shop World of Whiskies). This new…

This is a H2H tasting note of two bottles, sistercasks from Malts of Scotland, i.e. the Caperdonich 38 Year Old 1972/2011, sherry hogsheads 1144 that yielded 98 bottles and sherry hogshead 1145 that…

Duncan Taylor, the well-known Scottish independent bottler, markets older whiskies under their ‘Lonach’ label. Lonach are usually vattings of different casks, both overproof and underproof (meaning less…

On 27th April 2011 A.D. Rattray bottled this bourbon cask from 1995 in their ‘Cask Collection’, meaning it’s a single cask at cask strength, in this case a hefty 60,4%. The nose is very sweet. I get…

Caperdonich, that started out as Glen Grant No 2, closed its doors in 1902 as a consequence of the Pattison Crash. It took until 1965 before the stills were fired up again – this time under the name…

This Speysider closed in 2010 and it looked like the beginning of the end. But in July 2011 Ian McLeod Distillers (who already own Glengoyne) came to the rescue and bought the distillery from Edrington…

Glen Keith’s official bottles are few and, like the 10 Year Old, rather uninteresting. The stocks are still being used for Passport, Chivas Regal and 100 Pipers. The real gems – and Glen Keith has more…

I have previously only tasted two Glenrothes, the Select Reserve and the Vintage 1987. Oh, let’s not forget the Wemyss Toffee Apples, a single cask Glenrothes in disguise from 1990. But what I’ll be…