Auchentoshan reviews

Through Whiskybase I was contacted by The-Man-best-Friend, a German whisky lover. He had noticed that I had not yet tried this 11 Year Old Auchentoshan from Hart Brothers and sent me a generous sample…

When visiting the Auchentoshan Distillery, you get the opportunity to bottle your own from two casks. Obviously I brought one of each. The youngest that you can currently try is bourbon hogshead #49 that…

The Bottle Your Own programme from Auchentoshan currently boasts not one, but two casks. Yoav Gelbfish from Israel visited the distillery, bottled from bourbon cask 11030 and graciously offered to send…

The latest Provenance-bottling, from McGibbon’s, which is actually part of Douglas Laing, was a gift from my friend Chris Leggat, former Auchentoshan ambassador and since a few weeks the son-in-law of…

On Friday 14th February 2014 we visited Jan Beckers in the Douglas Laing HQ in Glasgow. We were very pleasantly surprised when halfway through our visit none other than Fred Laing himself dropped by to…

Hepburn’s Choice is a new star on the firmament of independent bottlers. Let me give it a go with a malt that I am quite familiar with.The nose is immediately extremely sweet, but a lot more mature than…

Chris Leggat once worked at my favorite distillery. It’s where he met his future wife Cara. When Cara joined her father’s business months later, Chris followed. Cara and Chris got married in Scottish…

Hart Brothers has three Auchentoshan on the market. An 11 Year Old that I have already tried, this 13 Year Old and a 16 Year Old that I will try soon. All samples were gifts from my German whisky buddy…

When 500 bottles of the Auchentoshan 1975 appeared on the market two years ago, I even flew out to Glasgow to pick up my bottle at the distillery. The distillate from 7 May 1975 was simply marvelous…

The Silveroak first appeared on the duty free market last year and is a mix of bourbon and orloroso sherry casks. Last summer, a second batch from the same stocks was bottled, making it a 22 Year Old…